Arthur Shields
Arthur Shields
The younger brother of Irish actor Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields joined Fitzgerald at Dublin's famed Abbey as a Player in 1914, where he directed as well as acted. Though in films fitfully since 1910, Shield's formal movie career didn't begin until he joined several other Abbey veterans in the cast of John Ford's Plough and the Stars (1936). He went on to appear in several other Ford films, generally cast in more introverted roles than those offered his brother. Unlike his sibling, Shields was not confined to Irish parts; he often as not played Americans, and in 1943's Dr. Renault's Secret, he was seen as a French police inspector. Never as prominent a film personality as his brother, Arthur Shields nonetheless remained a dependable second-echelon character player into the 1960s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Arthur Shields:
- The River with Esmond Knight , Adrienne Corri
- South Sea Woman with Burt Lancaster , Virginia Mayo , Chuck Connors , Hayden Rorke , Leon Askin , Sam Harris , Al Hill , Keye Luke , Strother Martin
- The Quiet Man with John Wayne , Maureen O'Hara , Victor McLaglen , Barry Fitzgerald , Ward Bond , Mildred Natwick , Ken Curtis , Sam Harris , Mae Marsh , Pat O'Malley , Bob Perry , Hank Worden
- Random Harvest with Ronald Colman , Greer Garson , Susan Peters , Henry Travers , Edmund Gwenn , Reginald Owen , Bramwell Fletcher , Rhys Williams , Una O'Connor , Melville Cooper , Margaret Wycherly , Alan Napier , Norma Varden , Henry Daniell , Elizabeth Risdon , Sam Harris , Terence Kilburn , Peter Lawford , Kay Medford , C. Montague Shaw , Arthur Space , Ian Wolfe
- Madame Curie with Greer Garson , Walter Pidgeon , Robert Walker , Albert Basserman , Van Johnson , Margaret O'Brien , C. Aubrey Smith , Henry Travers , May Whitty , Reginald Owen , Teddy Infur , James Sr. Kirkwood , Gene Lockhart , George Meader , Alan Napier , Wyndham Standing , Ray Teal , Ray Collins
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