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Barry Fitzgerald
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
2.3737
9
1940s
2.7231
25
1950s
1.8720
7
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.5795
2.5795
Barry Fitzgerald Movie Rankings
1
3.2500After a disaster in the ring, boxer Sean Thornton returns to his birthplace in Ireland. Hoping to live out a quiet existence Sean falls in love with a local girl. Her brother, Red Will, refuses to give his sister's hand and Sean is forced to conquer is old demons and fight for the woman he loves. ...more about Quiet Man
DVD from $5.62
(11 sellers)
2
3.1262At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. Lots of atmosphere, very sentimental view of pre-union miners' lives. ...more about How Green Was My Valley
DVD from $4.99
(12 sellers)
3
3.1173Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr U. N. Own, but he isn't on the island. At dinner a record is played, by that all the people are accused of murder, suddenly the first of them is dead, then the next... ...more about And Then There Were None
DVD from $3.00
(10 sellers)
4
3.1155
When a stuffy paleontologist and a scatterbrained heiress cross paths chaos ensues. She mistakes him for a zoologist and insists he help her with her pet leopard. ...more about Bringing Up Baby
DVD from $14.42
(16 sellers)
5
2.8565
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment and homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. ...more about Naked City
DVD from $24.99
(13 sellers)
6
2.8185
A new priest shows up at the parish of a crusty old priest named Father Fitzgibbon. The new man, Father O'Malley, must ingratiate himself with both the old man and his congregation. ...more about Going My Way
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $4.99
(16 sellers)
7
2.7457
Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. ...more about Long Voyage Home
DVD from $19.99
(9 sellers)
8
2.5661
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but Pearson is delighted to stay, once he meets teacher Trudy Mason. ...more about Welcome Stranger
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.5592
Humphrey van Weyden, a writer, and fugitives Ruth Webster and George Leach have been given refuge aboard the sealer "Ghost," captained by the cruel Wolf Larsen. ...more about Sea Wolf
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.3579
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. ...more about Dawn Patrol
DVD from $12.71
(14 sellers)
13
2.2944
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life forgetting what the most important values of are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. ...more about Juno and the Paycock
DVD from $9.98
(12 sellers)
14
2.2769
A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exits on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to extort from Tarzan the location of the gold. Everyone is captured by wicked natives. ...more about Tarzan's Secret Treasure
DVD from $41.37
(11 sellers)
15
2.2556
Charles Stewart, the "Pilgrim" owner's playboy son, finds himself shanghaied on his father's ship commanded by cruel Captain Thompson. When scurvy breaks out he leads a mutiny and is slapped in irons. Floggings and torture abound. ...more about Two Years Before the Mast
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.2465
Colonel Loring Leigh, British Indian Army, appears to have issued an order that cost 90 lives. Cashiered, he returns home, tells his sons of a conspiracy by an arms syndicate to supply the rebels...then is found dead, an apparent suicide. ...more about Four Men and a Prayer
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.1751
At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. ...more about Catered Affair
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.0145
Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. ...more about Story of Seabiscuit
DVD from $5.45
(13 sellers)
19
1.7442
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. ...more about California
- Not Available on DVD
20
1.6378
Secretary Joyce Willecombe grows suspicious of two men boarding her train and is referred to 'Tough Willy' Calhoun, head of the Union Station police. ...more about Union Station
- Not Available on DVD
21
1.4246
A disgraced policeman's daughter in San Francisco is busy acquiring a name for herself as a crime boss in her own right. ...more about Saint Strikes Back
- Not Available on DVD
24
In 1943, 'Mac' MacClain, Canadian Navy, has lost his ship and many men to a German torpedo. While waiting for a new ship, he befriends Joyce Cartwright, sister of one of his dead officers. ...more about Corvette K-225
- Not Available on DVD
26
A film that possibly held the record for the most Irish-descent players in an American-produced movie before "The Quiet Man" was shot on location in Ireland, and that includes "The Informer. ...more about Easy Come
- Not Available on DVD
29
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary (A.E. Matthews), owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. ...more about Happy Ever After
- Not Available on DVD
30
During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. ...more about I Love a Soldier
- Not Available on DVD
31
The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father to her reign as the Queen of the Night Clubs. Along the way, she also finds romance and heartbreak. ...more about Incendiary Blonde
- Not Available on DVD
32
After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the estate of Miss Tatlock's millions. ...more about Miss Tatlock's Millions
- Not Available on DVD
35
Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with loot from their latest scam, hide out in a small Maine town, near the Canadian border. However - the residents of this small town aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are. ...more about Sainted Sisters
- Not Available on DVD
36
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon. Johnny is arrested for murder. ...more about San Francisco Docks
- Not Available on DVD
38
A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment and a charge account at a department store. ...more about Stork Club
DVD from $6.04
(3 sellers)
39
One bright morning, the villagers near Blarney Castle, Ireland hear terrible news: the famed Blarney Stone has been stolen. Enter Joe Mulqueen, singing insurance investigator from New York. ...more about Top o' the Morning
- Not Available on DVD
41
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick ...more about Variety Girl
- Not Available on DVD
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