ACTOR

Barry Fitzgerald

1888 - 1961

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William Joseph Shields (10 March 1888 – 4 January 1961), 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 Up Baby (1938), The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Sea Wolf (1941), Going My Way (1944), None but the Lonely Heart (1944) and The Quiet Man (1952). For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same performance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barry Fitzgerald has received more than 1,220,237 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Barry Fitzgerald is the 2,701st most popular actor (down from 2,672nd in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 132nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Irish Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 2,701 out of 13,578. Before him are Rainn Wilson, Jon Bernthal, John Astin, Jack Nance, Marguerite Durand, and Aidan Gillen. After him are Jennifer Morrison, Gisela Hahn, Tommy Chong, Dakota Johnson, Sebastian Stan, and Francesca Bertini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 127. Before him are Hans Graf von Sponeck, Antonio Ascari, Francisco Canaro, Viktor Kingissepp, Joachim Lemelsen, and Kan Kikuchi. After him are Kaarel Eenpalu, Mary Eristavi, Lotte Lehmann, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Pavel Peter Gojdič, and Sydney Chapman. Among people deceased in 1961, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 87. Before him are Otto Ruge, Suryakant Tripathi, Sergio Osmeña, Carlos Luz, Chico Marx, and Hélène Dutrieu. After him are Camille Guérin, Hari Singh, Beals Wright, Nicola Canali, Tsuru Aoki, and Nina Bari.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 130 out of 549. Before him are Kevin of Glendalough (498), Dan O'Herlihy (1919), Turlough O'Carolan (1670), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620), and Aidan Gillen (1968). After him are Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), Alan Cunningham (1887), Pat Cox (1952), Sally Oldfield (1947), Kathleen Lonsdale (1903), and Yvonne Farrell (1951).

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Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 21. Before him are Edward Mulhare (1923), Fiona Shaw (1958), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Colm Meaney (1953), Dan O'Herlihy (1919), and Aidan Gillen (1968). After him are Dorothea Jordan (1761), Ronan Keating (1977), Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913), Sinéad Cusack (1948), Jason O'Mara (1972), and Tom Moore (1883).

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