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Arthur Shields (1896-1970) was an Irish actor on television, stage and film. He fought in the Easter Rising of 1916, acted in many Abbey Theatre productions, and appeared in several John Ford films with his brother Barry Fitzgerald.
- First Actor in The Family
- Shields and The Easter Rising
- The Shields Family Collection at Nui Galway
- The Warner Bros. Questionnaire
- Ireland’s Renaissance Man Directs Eugene O’Neill
- A Personal Note from Sean O’Casey
- The Legacy of Arthur Shields
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Arthur Shields was born on February 15, 1896 in the Portobello section of Dublin, by the Grand Canal. His father Adolphus, a Church of Ireland Protestant, was a labor leader in the printing trade. Arthur was the younger brother of William (“Will”) Shields who was born in 1888. Will Shields would affectionately be known to the world as Barry Fitzger...
Shields, at 20-years-of-age, was already an established actor at the Abbey Theatre by 1916. Shields, especially for an actor, was an exceptionally modest man. He didn’t like to toot his horn and we learn very little about him from himself. Even his application for a military pension in 1938 is laconic. He admits he joined the Irish Volunteers “Roug...
According to the NUI Galway website, “The Shields family papers were donated to The James Hardiman Library, NUIG by Arthur Shields daughter Christine Shields.” The full contents can be viewed here. The collection includes many photographs of Shields and Fitzgerald and other Abbey players as they toured America in the 1930s. It also includes papers ...
One of the jewels of the Shields Collection is the Biographical Questionnaire filled out for Warner Bros. on January 28, 1945. It was for publicity purposes and would be put to good use in 1945-46 as Shields made six films at Warner’s. 1945 saw him perform in Too Young to Know with Joan Leslie, Roughly Speaking directed by the great Michael Curtiz ...
One of the most interesting things in the collection is a three-page memo Shields wrote about his experience directing Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten in 1947. The first time around Misbegotten had several problems, including censorship from the Detroit police department. It would never get to New York during this production. The play i...
The friendship of the Shields Brothers and Sean O’Casey goes back to the 1920s. In fact, at one time, O’Casey and Barry Fitzgerald were roommates. As their friendship grew O’Casey even wrote parts for Fitzgerald in his plays, such as Fluther Good in The Plough and the Stars. With the original production of Plough in Dublin in 1926, the Shields brot...
Just think of the people Arthur Shields knew, both politically, intellectually, and on the stage. You can start at the G.P.O. in 1916. Look around. There’s Pearse, Connolly, Clarke, Plunkett, and MacDiarmada. Over in that corner is Michael Collins, whom he would join in Frongoch for a month. From there he went to the Abbey Theatre where the directo...
Arthur Shields was a versatile and modest actor who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and starred in The Quiet Man. He also had a close relationship with W.B. Yeats, Sean O'Casey and Eugene O'Neill.
Arthur Shields (1896-1970) was a versatile actor who appeared in over 100 films and TV shows, including John Ford's classics The Quiet Man and How Green Was My Valley. He was also a director, a playwright, and a participant in the Easter Rising of 1916.
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Arthur Shields was an Irish actor who fought in the Easter Rising of 1916 and appeared in many films and plays. He was the brother of Barry Fitzgerald and played a priest in The Quiet Man (1952).
- February 15, 1896
- April 27, 1970
Arthur Shields (1896-1970) was a stage and film actor who appeared in several John Ford classics, such as The Quiet Man, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and The River. He was also a nationalist who fought in the Easter Uprising of 1916 and had a brother, Barry Fitzgerald, who was also an actor.
Apr 28, 2024 · Arthur Shields is one of the great stories of twentieth-century Ireland. He became involved early at the Abbey Theatre and worked there as an actor, director, and stage manager. ( He was known as “Boss” Shields.) But, still unknown to many, is that he was also a patriot.
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Shields, Arthur (1896–1970), actor, was born 15 February 1896 in North Great George's St., Dublin, one of eight children of Adolphus Shields, journalist, and Fanny Sophia Shields, originally from Germany. His older brother, William, achieved much fame as the actor Barry Fitzgerald (qv).
