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Barry Fitzgerald

1888 - 1961

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William Joseph Shields (10 March 1888 – 4 January 1961), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barry Fitzgerald is the 3,499th most popular actor (down from 2,698th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 130th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Irish Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 3,499 out of 13,578. Before him are Bruce Glover, Sienna Guillory, Aleksandr Abdulov, Małgorzata Braunek, Derek de Lint, and Verónica Forqué. After him are Vincent Gallo, Jennifer Esposito, Vanessa Hudgens, Viktor Sukhorukov, Chris Vance, and Bessie Love.

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Among people born in 1888, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 151. Before him are Roger Ducret, Florence Lee, Milán Füst, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and Beulah Louise Henry. After him are Frances Marion, Ralph Hartley, Jinichi Kusaka, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Marcel Jouhandeau, and Mary Eristavi. Among people deceased in 1961, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 114. Before him are Jean de Bie, Ida Siekmann, Leonhard Frank, Beppo Levi, Marion Davies, and Charles D. B. King. After him are Platt Adams, Belinda Lee, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Grigory Levenfish, Joseph Orbeli, and Géza von Bolváry.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 177 out of 549. Before him are Edward Bruce (1275), Moya Brennan (1952), Brian McFadden (1980), Peter Woulfe (1727), Seán O'Casey (1880), and Enda Kenny (1951). After him are Edna O'Brien (1930), Dorothea Jordan (1761), Yvonne Farrell (1951), John de Robeck (1862), Herbert Brenon (1880), and Jack Gleeson (1992).

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Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 22. Before him are David Kelly (1929), Fiona Shaw (1958), Aidan Gillen (1968), Colm Meaney (1953), Dan O'Herlihy (1919), and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977). After him are Dorothea Jordan (1761), Jack Gleeson (1992), Tom Moore (1883), Patrick Bergin (1951), Richard Todd (1919), and Jason O'Mara (1972).

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