Arthur Shields
Actor
Biography
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Arthur Shields (15 February 1896 - 27 April 1970) was an Irish stage and film actor.
Born into an Irish Protestant family in Portobello, Dublin, he started acting in the Abbey Theatre when still a young man. He was the younger brother of actor Barry Fitzgerald. An Irish nationalist, he fought in the Easter Uprising of 1916. He was captured and was interned in Frongoch, North Wales. He afterwards returned to the Abbey theatre. In 1936 John Ford brought him to the United States to act in a film version of The Plough and the Stars.
He later returned to the U.S. and for health reasons, he decided to reside in California. He died at his home in Santa Barbara, California, aged 74.
Some of his memorable roles were in John Ford films. Shields portrayed the Reverend Playfair in Ford's The Quiet Man, opposite John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald. He played Dr. Laughlin in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with Wayne and Joanne Dru, and appeared yet again with Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald in Ford's Long Voyage Home. His other films include: Little Nellie Kelly, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Fabulous Dorseys, Gallant Journey, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Drums Along the Mohawk, Lady Godiva, National Velvet and The River.
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Filmography
River of No Return
as Minister at Tent City (uncredited) 1954
How Green Was My Valley
as Mr. Parry 1941
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
as Dr. O'Laughlin 1949
Lassie Come Home
as Andrew 1943
The River
as Mr. John 1951
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Reverend Rosenkrantz 1939
National Velvet
as Mr. Hallam 1945
The Long Voyage Home
as Donkeyman 1940
The Black Swan
as The Bishop (uncredited) 1942
Gentleman Jim
as Father Burke 1942
Jack and the Beanstalk
as Patrick the Harp (uncredited) 1952
The Keys of the Kingdom
as Fr. Fitzgerald, Dean at Holywell 1944
The Verdict
as Rev. Holbrook 1946
The Sign of the Cross
as Chaplain Costello (1944 Re-Release Prologue) (uncredited) 1932
Madame Curie
as Businessman (uncredited) 1943
Above Suspicion
as Walmer Hotel Porter (Uncredited) 1943