Barry Fitzgerald: Barry Fitzgerald. Actor: The Quiet Man. One of Hollywood's finest character actors and most accomplished scene stealers, Barry Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. Educated to enter the banking business, the diminutive Irishman with the irresistible brogue was bitten by the acting bug in the 1920s and joined Dublin's world-famous Abbey Players. He subsequently starred in the Abbey Theatre production of Sean O'Casey's Juno And...
Known For: The Quiet Man (Michaleen Oge Flynn), Going My Way (Father Fitzgibbon), How Green Was My Valley (Cyfartha), And Then There Were None (Judge Francis J. Quincannon)