Arthur Shields
Birthday: 1896-02-15
Deathday: 1970-04-27
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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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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Credits
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1962-06-19 | The Pigeon That Took Rome | Monsignor O'Toole |
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1960-08-28 | For the Love of Mike | Father Walsh |
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1958-11-08 | Enchanted Island | Jimmy Dooley |
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1957-06-28 | Daughter of Dr. Jekyll | Dr. Lomas |
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1956-12-21 | The King and Four Queens | Padre |
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1956-10-02 | The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure | Boles - Ex-Gardener |
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1955-11-02 | Lady Godiva of Coventry | Innkeeper |
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1954-04-30 | River of No Return | Minister at Tent City (uncredited) |
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1954-04-04 | Pride of the Blue Grass | Wilson |
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1954-01-31 | World for Ransom | Sean O'Connor |
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1953-10-12 | Main Street to Broadway | Actor in Fantasy Sequence |
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1953-06-27 | South Sea Woman | 'Jimmy-legs' Donovan |
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1953-05-17 | Scandal at Scourie | Father Reilly |
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1952-07-21 | The Quiet Man | Rev. Cyril 'Snuffy' Playfair |
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1952-04-07 | Jack and the Beanstalk | Patrick the Harp (uncredited) |
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1951-12-03 | The Barefoot Mailman | Ben Titus |
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1951-09-10 | The River | Mr. John |
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1951-09-01 | The People Against O'Hara | Mr. O'Hara |
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1951-05-19 | Sealed Cargo | Kevin Dolan |
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1951-04-01 | Apache Drums | Reverend Griffin |
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1951-01-28 | Blue Blood | Tim Donovan |
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1950-08-10 | A Wonderful Life | Pastor |
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1950-06-23 | Tarzan and the Slave Girl | Dr. E.E. Campbell |
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1949-10-31 | Challenge to Lassie | Dr. Lee |
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1949-10-22 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Dr. O'Laughlin |
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1949-09-30 | Red Light | Father Redmond |
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1949-03-25 | The Adventure of the Speckled Band | The Bookshop Man |
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1949-02-26 | The Fighting O'Flynn | Dooley |
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1948-08-25 | Tap Roots | Reverend Kirkland |
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1948-07-01 | My Own True Love | Iverson |
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1948-05-12 | Fighting Father Dunne | Michael O'Donnell |
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1947-06-05 | Seven Keys to Baldpate | Prof. Bolton |
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1947-03-07 | Easy Come, Easy Go | Timothy Mike Donovan |
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1947-02-26 | The Fabulous Dorseys | Thomas Dorsey Sr. |
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1947-01-04 | The Shocking Miss Pilgrim | Michael Michael |
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1946-11-23 | The Verdict | Rev. Holbrook |
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1946-11-09 | Never Say Goodbye | McCarthy (uncredited) |
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1946-09-24 | Gallant Journey | Father Kenton |
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1946-01-28 | Three Strangers | Prosecutor |
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1945-12-01 | Too Young to Know | Mr. Enright |
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1945-06-09 | Phantoms, Inc. | Dr. Rupert Trykel |
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1945-05-03 | The Valley of Decision | Callahan |
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1945-03-29 | The Corn Is Green | Glyn Thomas |
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1945-01-31 | Roughly Speaking | Minister (uncredited) |
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1945-01-26 | National Velvet | Mr. Hallam |
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1944-12-15 | The Keys of the Kingdom | Fr. Fitzgerald, Dean at Holywell |
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1944-09-01 | Youth Runs Wild | Mr. Dunlop |
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1944-05-11 | The White Cliffs of Dover | Benson (uncredited) |
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1943-12-16 | Madame Curie | Businessman (uncredited) |
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1943-12-01 | Lassie Come Home | Andrew |
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1943-08-04 | The Man from Down Under | Father Polycarp |
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1943-05-31 | Above Suspicion | Walmer Hotel Porter (Uncredited) |
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1942-12-04 | The Black Swan | The Bishop (uncredited) |
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1942-11-14 | Gentleman Jim | Father Burke |
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1942-11-10 | Nightmare | Sergeant |
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1942-10-19 | Dr. Renault's Secret | Inspector Duval (uncredited) |
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1942-08-28 | The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe | Griswald (uncredited) |
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1942-05-21 | Pacific Rendezvous | Prof. Harvey Lessmore |
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1942-05-12 | This Above All | Hospital Chaplain |
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1942-05-08 | Broadway | Pete Dailey |
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1941-12-12 | Confirm or Deny | Jeff, Blind Typist |
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1941-10-28 | How Green Was My Valley | Mr. Parry |
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1941-10-24 | The Gay Falcon | Inspector Mike Waldeck |
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1941-09-26 | Lady Scarface | Matt Willis |
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1940-11-22 | Little Nellie Kelly | Timothy Fogarty |
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1940-11-16 | The Long Voyage Home | Donkeyman |
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1939-11-10 | Drums Along the Mohawk | Reverend Rosenkrantz |
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1936-12-26 | The Plough and the Stars | Padraic Pearse |
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1932-11-30 | The Sign of the Cross | Chaplain Costello (1944 Re-Release Prologue) (uncredited) |
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1918-01-30 | Knocknagow | Phil Lahy |