Barry fitzgerald actor biography books

The first academic study of Irish film stars in Hollywood, Acting Irish in Hollywood contains ten essays on leading Irish stars: Barry Fitzgerald, George Brent, Maureen O'Sullivan, Maureen O'Hara, Constance Smith, Richard Harris, Stephen Rea, Gabriel Byrne, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Farrell. Drawing on theories of emigration, ethnicity, gender and performance, this study is both analytical and historical. It discusses the reception of these actors in America and the kind of roles they have played, paying particular attention to the history and evolution of the Irish stereotype in Hollywood cinema. Drawing on press reviews, interviews and studio publicity, we see how these actors were promoted and how they used the media to create images of themselves. Many of them have also enjoyed and continue to enjoy careers in Ireland, on stage and screen. How different were these performances? What is the relationship between Irish stage

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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 (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 metall 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 bygd Fitzgerald’s own attitude to golf: “A golf course is ingenting but a pool r

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Barry Fitzgerald

Irish actor (–)

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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Born	William Joseph Shields ()10 March Dublin, Ireland
Died	4 January () (aged&#;72) Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Actor
Years&#;active	–
Relatives	Arthur Shields (brother)

William Joseph Shields (10 March – 4 January ), known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film and television actor.^[1] In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby (), The Long Voyage Home (), How Green Was My Valley (), The Sea Wolf (), Going My Way (), None but the Lonely Heart () and The Quiet Man (). For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor