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Arthur Shields (Arthur Lewis Shields) was born on 15 February, 1896 in Dublin, Ireland, is an actor,miscellaneous,assistant_director. Discover Arthur Shields's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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Arthur Lewis Shields |
Occupation |
actor,miscellaneous,assistant_director |
Age |
74 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius |
Born |
15 February 1896 |
Birthday |
15 February |
Birthplace |
Dublin, Ireland |
Date of death |
27 April, 1970 |
Died Place |
Santa Barbara, California, USA |
Nationality |
Ireland
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He is a member of famous Actor with the age 74 years old group.
Arthur Shields Height, Weight & Measurements
At 74 years old, Arthur Shields height not available right now. We will update Arthur Shields's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is Arthur Shields's Wife?
His wife is Una Mary O'Connor (1943 - 1950) ( her death), Bazie Magee (1920 - 1943) ( her death), Laurie Bailey (actress) (? - 27 April 1970) ( his death) ( 2 children)
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Wife |
Una Mary O'Connor (1943 - 1950) ( her death), Bazie Magee (1920 - 1943) ( her death), Laurie Bailey (actress) (? - 27 April 1970) ( his death) ( 2 children) |
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Arthur Shields Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Arthur Shields worth at the age of 74 years old? Arthur Shields’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from Ireland. We have estimated Arthur Shields's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Source of Income |
Actor |
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Timeline
Already he had dabbled in the new medium of Irish film (1910) with two notable examples (1918). There was more to the seemingly mild-mannered Shields than met the eye.
Though not as well known as his nearly decade-older brother Barry Fitzgerald, Shields was a talented actor with well over twice the film roles in his career. Fitzgerald was already a well established player at the renowned Dublin Abbey Theater when Shields, also bitten by the acting bug, joined in 1914. He performed but was also out front directing plays.
His family was Protestant Nationalist and he himself fought in the Easter Uprising of 1916. And he was in fact captured and imprisoned in a camp in North Wales.
Late in 1918 he came to the United States and first helped bring Irish comedy and drama to Broadway.
Still not settled, Shields was back in Dublin through most of the 1920s but returned to Broadway almost full time in 1932 moving through the repertory of Irish plays.
When John Ford finally convinced his brother - and some other Abbey players - to come to Hollywood to do the 1936 film version of "The Plough and the Stars", Broadway veteran Shields was asked to take the pivotal part of Padraic (Patrick) Pearse, perhaps the most important leader of the Easter Rising.
By early 1939 he was finished with his concentration on Broadway and found Ford eager to offer him a part in his Revolutionary period adventure Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) as the matter-of-fact pioneer minister with a good shooting eye Rev. Rosenkrantz. Ministers, reverends, priests, and other assorted clerics would be a Shields staple throughout his career - and he always managed to breath an individual humanity into each and every one.
From then on through the 1940s he was in demand as character actor - and not just Irish roles as Fitzgerald with his gravelly, prominent brogue, found himself. Along with the aforementioned men of the cloth, Shields was provided a steady offering of the gamut of Hollywood's character storehouse-Irish and otherwise.
He would continue to appear on Broadway for some 24 plays until 1941, especially reviving two Abbey Theater favorites from the hand of Sean O'Casey, "The Plough and the Stars" and "Juno and the Paycock", the latter being produced and staged by him in 1940.
And among them were parts for some of Ford's most memorable films: How Green Was My Valley (1941) and especially The Quiet Man (1952). Here again, he was a cleric but a uniquely sympathetic one - the lone Protestant Reverend Dr. Playfair - whom John Wayne affectionately calls "Padre" in the vastly Catholic village of the film. He alone knows the former identity of Wayne and convinces the latter of his final struggle to go on with his new life in Ireland. Enough said - with a wonderful cast of Ford stalwarts and native Irish (including Fizgerald), this was Ford's long awaited crowning achievement.