Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald

Irish actor (1888–1961)

William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film, and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Sea Wolf (1941), Going My Way (1944), None but the Lonely Heart (1944), and The Quiet Man (1952). For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same performance. In 2020, he was listed at number 11 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 10 films (1930–1950) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 11 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▼ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1950 The story of Seabiscuit. Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. 93 min. 35mm Color sound
1950 Union Station Rudolph Maté
1946 Two Years Before the Mast Paramount News Service 22 16mm B&W sound
1945 And Then There Were None Cine Productions 97 16mm
1945 Incendiary Blonde. George Marshall 12 reels sound
1945 The Stork Club. Hal Walker 10 reels
1944 Going My Way. Leo McCarey 14 reels 16mm sound
1943 THE AMAZING MRS. HOLLIDAY. Universal-International 11 reels. 16mm B&W Sound
1938 FOUR MEN AND A PRAYER. Fox Film Corp 85 min B&W
1930 Juno and the Paycock British International Pictures Ltd 1:36:00 16mm B&W sound