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
Fitzgerald in 1945
Fitzgerald's birthplace on Walworth Road, Portobello, Dublin
Fitzgerald and Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man (1952)
Arthur Shields was an Irish actor on television, stage and film.
Barry Fitzgerald
…to Fanny Sophia (née Ungerland) and Adolphus Shields. His father was Irish and his mother was German. He was the elder brother of the Irish actor Arthur Shields. Although he was often cast in roles associated with stereotypical Irish Catholic characters, Fitzgerald himself was raised in the Church of Ireland…