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Barry Fitzgerald
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Roland Young, June Duprez, Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward, and Walter Huston stand around a table with figurines in a scene from the 1945 film And Then There Were None. Bing Crosby, in casual clothes, stands beside Barry Fitzgerald, dressed as a priest, in a garden scene from the 1944 film Going My Way. Barry Fitzgerald
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Barry Fitzgerald

Irish actor
Also known as: William Joseph Shields
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      …suspense film, with Holden and Barry Fitzgerald as police officers on the trail of a kidnapper (played by Lyle Bettger), while Branded (1950) was a formulaic Alan Ladd western. Maté next made The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951), a light if colourful costume adventure starring Tony Curtis and Piper…

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      …suspense film, with Holden and Barry Fitzgerald as police officers on the trail of a kidnapper (played by Lyle Bettger), while Branded (1950) was a formulaic Alan Ladd western. Maté next made The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951), a light if colourful costume adventure starring Tony Curtis and Piper…

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