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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barry Fitzgerald has received more than 1,157,146 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Barry Fitzgerald is the 2,676th most popular actor (up from 2,823rd in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 145th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Irish Actor.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 2,676 out of 9,996. Before him are Sage Stallone, William Katt, Marc Singer, Kelly Hu, Diahann Carroll, and Peppino De Filippo. After him are Tony Todd, Carrie Snodgress, Shelley Hack, Tony Goldwyn, Doris Roberts, and Ng Man-tat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 129. Before him are Harald Sverdrup, Árpád Szakasits, Kan Kikuchi, Nereu Ramos, Sophus Nielsen, and Frances Marion. After him are Milán Füst, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Vladimir Baranov-Rossine, Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, Toyohiko Kagawa, and Anna Q. Nilsson. Among people deceased in 1961, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 84. Before him are Marion Davies, Carlos Luz, Nina Bari, Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, Otto Ruge, and Charles Coburn. After him are Grigory Levenfish, Elia Dalla Costa, Kjeld Abell, Yaşar Doğu, Max Weber, and Morris Travers.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 133 out of 501. Before him are Charles Villiers Stanford (1852), Arthur Griffith (1871), John Boland (1870), Douglas Hyde (1860), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), and Eddie Jordan (1948). After him are Sally Oldfield (1947), Coloman of Stockerau (1000), Richard Montgomery (1738), Anne de Mortimer (1390), Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (1909), and Colm Meaney (1953).

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Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Barry Fitzgerald ranks 20. Before him are Aidan Gillen (1968), Edward Mulhare (1923), Fiona Shaw (1958), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Liam Cunningham (1961), and Dan O'Herlihy (1919). After him are Colm Meaney (1953), Tom Moore (1883), Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913), Sinéad Cusack (1948), Jason O'Mara (1972), and Domhnall Gleeson (1983).

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