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