1. Arthur Shields was an Irish actor on television, stage and film.
12 Facts About Arthur Shields
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Arthur Shields was the younger brother of Oscar-winning actor Barry Fitzgerald.
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Arthur Shields was interned for six months in the Frongoch internment camp in Frongoch, Wales.
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Arthur Shields returned to the Abbey Theatre and had a varied career there from 1914 to 1939 as actor, assistant director, director and stage manager.
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In 1936, John Ford brought him to the United States to act in a film version of The Plough and the Stars, and in 1939 Arthur Shields decided to live permanently in California, where the mild climate would help his tuberculosis.
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Arthur Shields portrayed the Reverend Playfair in Ford's The Quiet Man, opposite John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald.
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Arthur Shields 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.
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Arthur Shields married Bazie Magee in 1920, and their son Adam was born in 1927.
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In 1943, the couple were divorced and Arthur Shields married Aideen O'Connor.
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Arthur Shields died of complications related to emphysema on 27 April 1970, in Santa Barbara, California.
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Arthur Shields was survived by his wife, a daughter, a son and four grandchildren.
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Arthur Shields's body was cremated, with the ashes taken to his native city of Dublin and buried with military honours in Deans Grange Cemetery.