Biography of barry fitzgerald
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Barry Fitzgerald: the civil servant who became one of Ireland’s first Hollywood stars
Barry Fitzgerald was a man with a talent for creating conundrums for the good people at the Academy. Not only did he cause an upset by being nominated in both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories for the role of Fr Fitzgibbon in Going My Way in 1944 (he won in the latter category), he also managed to decapitate his Oscar statuette with a golf club not long afterwards.
Fitzgerald’s win was the last time the same person would be nominated for two Oscars for these two categories - the Academy would change the rules the following year. After wartime metal shortages ceased and Oscar statuettes reverted from their temporary gold-sprayed plaster construction to their usual gold-plated bronze, it wouldn’t be so easy to decapitate them while practicing your swing. The reasons for the accident are probably best summed up by Fitzgerald’s own attitude to golf: “A golf course is nothing but a p
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Barry Fitzgerald
Irish actor (1888–1961)
This article is about the actor. For the Australian rules footballer, see Barry Fitzgerald (footballer). For the ghost investigator, see Barry Fitzgerald (investigator).
Barry Fitzgerald | |
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Fitzgerald in 1945 | |
| Born | William Joseph Shields (1888-03-10)10 March 1888 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 4 January 1961(1961-01-04) (aged 72) Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1924–1961 |
| Relatives | Arthur Shields (brother) |
William namn Shields (10 March 1888 – 4 January 1961), known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, bio and television actor.[1] 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 B
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Irish born Barry Fitzgerald has over 20 years experience within the world of the paranormal which has taken him to new levels of intrigue and mystery. Appearing on Ghost Hunters International and heading a team on the American SyFy network he explored and investigated many paranormal and supernatural phenomenon the world over. This progression lead to an authoring of books on subjects within the paranormal and wider field from 'The Influence', to mysterious happening’s and bizarre disappearances right under our feet in ‘The Mist of Gods’. Barry’s new line of research has taken him out of his comfort zone and into areas of Irish myth and legend to exploring the world of the Sidhe/Fairy. His book ‘Banshee’ is a collection of modern encounters with this legend which lefts the bizarre screaming fairy lady from the realms of myth and into reality. Followed by 'Searching the Sidhe' he lifts the veil of glamour used by such entities to reveal a very different picture, a