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Barry Fitzgerald

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Birth Name: William Joseph Shields

Born: 10 March 1888 Died: 4 January 1961

Country of origin: Ireland

Height: 5' 4"


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Leading and Supporting Nominations - Actor/Actress (149 items)
list by Kandi
Published 8 years, 9 months ago 2 comments
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AFI's Male Legends Nominations (252 items)
list by garfield2710
Published 11 years, 4 months ago 1 comment
5 votes
Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor - Film (76 items)
list by Leo
Published 10 years, 8 months ago 1 comment
5 votes
Two Academy Award nominations in the same year (12 items)
list by Totoro
Published 2 years, 3 months ago
5 votes
Academy Award Winners 1940-1949 (39 items)
list by Blue Pineapple
Published 13 years, 5 months ago

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Description: Barry Fitzgerald (March 10, 1888 - January 14, 1961) was an Irish actor. Born William Joseph Shields in Dublin, he joined the Abbey Theatre, and starred in such plays as Sean O'Casey's Juno And The Paycock, a role he recreated for Alfred Hitchcock in his screen debut in 1930. Fitzgerald went to Hollywood to star in another O'Casey work, The Plough And The Stars, directed by John Ford. He had a successful Hollywood career in such films as The Long Voyage Home, How Green Was My Valley, And Then There Were None and The Quiet Man. He performed a feat never done in the history of the Academy Awards when he was nominated for both t ... (more)
Tags: Irish (3), Actor (3), Born 1888 (2), Died 1961 (2), 1950s (1), 1930s (1), 1940s (1), Male (1), Film Actor (1), Died Aged 72 (1), Oscar Winning Actor (1), DN (1)
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5. The Naked City (1948)
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Two Academy Award nominations in the same year (12 person items)

" YEAR: 1945 (17th Academy Awards) Best Actor in a Leading Role BARRY FITZGERALD as Father Fitzgibbon in GOING MY WAY 1944 | dir: Leo McCarey Best Actor in a Supporting Role BARRY FITZGERALD as Father Fitzgibbon in GOING MY WAY 1944 | dir: Leo McCarey Fitzgerald won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor that year, for his performance in Going My Way. It was the first and only time that an actor or an actress was nominated for both lead and supporting for the same role. "


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Every Best Supporting Actor Winner (76 person items)

"1944-Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way "


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Oscars 1945 Winners (My Version) (24 movies items)

"Best Supporting Actor! Winner: Barry Fitzgerald, Going My Way! Nominees: Hume Cronyn - The Seventh Cross Claude Rains - Mr. Skeffington Clifton Webb - Laura Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away"