Arthur Shields

Arthur Shields

Nascimento : 1896-02-15, Dublin, Ireland

Morte : 1970-04-27

História

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

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Arthur Shields

Filmes

The Pigeon That Took Rome
Monsignor O'Toole
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
For the Love of Mike
Father Walsh
An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.
Enchanted Island
Jimmy Dooley
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
A Filha do Médico e o Monstro
Dr. Lomas
A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a ruthless killer.
Esse Homem é Meu
Padre
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Innkeeper
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.
O Rio das Almas Perdidas
Minister
Em 1875, durante a corrida do ouro nos Estados Unidos, Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum), um ex-presidiário que recentemente saiu da cadeia, reencontra Mark Calder (Tommy Retting), seu jovem filho que nada sabe do seu passado. Com ele planeja se estabelecer como fazendeiro. Algum tempo depois os dois socorrem Kay Weston (Marilyn Monroe), uma cantora de saloon que conheciam, e Harry Westo (Rory Calhoun), seu namorado, quando tentavam atravessar um perigoso rio em uma balsa. Mas Harry está tão ansioso em registrar uma concessão de ouro que ele diz que ganhou em um jogo e fere Matt, que o salvou, pois quer um cavalo e uma arma a qualquer custo. Kay fica então no rancho cuidando de Matt e Mark, enquanto Harry vai embora sozinho, mas prometendo voltar. Entretanto, os índios chegam no local e os três são obrigados a fugir por um rio com perigosas corredeiras. Mas o rancheiro está determinado em chegar ao seu destino, para se vingar.
Pride of the Blue Grass
Wilson
A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by the stable siren. The girl finally rehabilitates the horse then enters it in a big race.
Pânico em Singapura
Sean O'Connor
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
Main Street to Broadway
Actor in Fantasy Sequence
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Furacão de Emoções
'Jimmy-legs' Donovan
Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl Ginger Martin takes the stand against his protest. She testifies O'Hearn won't talk because he is protecting the name of his pal, Marine Private Davey White. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met the two marines in Shanghai two weeks before Pearl Harbor.
O Marido da Mamãe
Father Reilly
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.
Depois do Vendaval
Rev. Cyril 'Snuffy' Playfair
Sean Thornton voltou da América para a Irlanda onde pretende recuperar sua herdade e escapar de seu passado. Mas a atenção de Sean é capturada por Mary Kate Danaher, uma bela mas pobre donzela, e irmã mais nova do mal-humorado "Red" Will Danaher. O relacionamento turbulento que se forma entre Sean e Mary Kate, pontuado por tentativas belicosas de Will para mantê-los separados formam a trama principal, com o passado de Sean como boxeador atrapalhando um pouco.
Abbott & Costello e o Pé de Feijão
Patrick the Harp (uncredited)
A versão de Abbott & Costello do famoso conto de fadas, sobre um menino que troca a vaca da família por feijões mágicos.
The Barefoot Mailman
Ben Titus
Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of mangrove swamp in the out-of-the-way community. So he decides to con the locals, some of whom are not as honest as he....
O Rio Sagrado
Mr. John
O primeiro filme em cores do diretor Jean Renoir - filmado inteiramente em locação na Índia - é um tour de force visual. Baseado no romance de Rumer Godden, o filme eloquentemente contrasta as dores de crescimento de três jovens mulheres com a imutabilidade do rio Bengal em torno do qual suas vidas diárias se desdobram. Enriquecido pela sutil compreensão e apreciação de Renoir pela Índia e seu povo, O filme explora graciosamente as frágeis conexões entre emoções transitórias e criação eterna. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
A Um Passo do Fim
Mr. O'Hara
Jim Curtayne, um ex-advogado de defesa de sucesso que agora é um alcoólatra em recuperação, tenta uma resposta quando defende o filho de um vizinho que enfrenta uma acusação de homicídio.
O Corsário Maldito
Kevin Dolan
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his crew and a group of villagers he sets about a plan to blow the ship as well as any U-boats that approach it. Based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.
Flechas da Vingança
Reverend Griffin
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
Blue Blood
Tim Donovan
An out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a cast-off horse for the big race of the season.
A Wonderful Life
Pastor
Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), who loved family and church, gave to the needy, and donated most of his money to charity. Now deceased, his somewhat neglected daughter reflects on his past and ponders that age-old question, did he indeed have such "a wonderful life"?
Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Dr. E.E. Campbell
The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse, in order to help repopulate his civilization. Tarzan must rescue them while fending off blowgun attacks from people called the Waddies who are disguised as bushes.
Desafio de Lassie
Dr. Lee
Quando o mestre de Lassie morre, um velho amigo tenta convencer um juiz de que a vida do cão deve ser poupada.
Legião Invencível
Dr. O'Laughlin
Nathan Brittles (John Wayne), um capitão veterano da cavalaria americana, não quer aceitar a ideia de se retirar do serviço ativo. Ele se recusa a se aposentar sem antes cumprir todas as suas obrigações com a tribo local e, assim, sai em sua última patrulha para impedir um maciço ataque indígena que pode se transformar em um grande massacre.
Desafiando o Perigo
Father Redmond
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Bookshop Man
Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous snake--the deadly swamp adder. Filmed on the expensive sets leftover from the movie Joan of Arc at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City and produced for the "Your Show Time" series, the short has been released as a solo feature on many DVDs that chronicle classic Sherlock Holmes films..
The Fighting O'Flynn
Dooley
A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
Paixão e Sangue
Reverend Kirkland
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
My Own True Love
Iverson
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.
Fighting Father Dunne
Michael O'Donnell
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Prof. Bolton
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only" key to the front door. But there are six other keys, and peculiar characters, some of them up to no good, keep turning up as the mystery deepens.
Easy Come, Easy Go
Timothy Mike Donovan
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
Os Fabulosos Dorseys
Thomas Dorsey Sr.
The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Michael Michael
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.
O Veredito
Rev. Holbrook
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
Nunca Me Digas Adeus
McCarthy (uncredited)
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
Gallant Journey
Father Kenton
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, and of his family, who were afraid that his dreams of flying would hurt his father's political ambitions. He pursues his education at Santa Clara University where the Jesuits lend a helping and understanding hand. An earthquake destroys what appears to be a working model for an airplane, but a gold-sorting machine Montgomery invented, and then neglected, promises to provide for his financial needs to keep working on his aircraft until he gets involved in costly lawsuits defending his invention.
Three Strangers
Prosecutor
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
Too Young to Know
Mr. Enright
A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
Phantoms, Inc.
Dr. Rupert Trykel
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.
O Vale da Decisão
Callahan
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
O Coração Não Envelhece
Glyn Thomas
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
A Mocidade é Assim Mesmo
Mr. Hallam
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
As Chaves do Reino
Father Fitzgerald, Dean at Holywell
Um jovem sacerdote, padre Chisholm é enviado à China para estabelecer uma paróquia católica entre chineses não cristãos. Enquanto seu amigo de infância, também sacerdote, prospera em seu chamado como um sacerdote em uma área mais cristã do mundo, padre Chisholm luta muito. Ele encontra hostilidade, isolamento, doenças, pobreza e uma variedade de contratempos que o humilham, mas que o tornam mais determinado do que nunca em ter sucesso. Durante um período de muitos anos ele ganha a aceitação e uma crescente congregação entre os chineses, por sua calma determinação, compreensão e paciência.
Youth Runs Wild
Mr. Dunlop
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
Evocação
Benson (uncredited)
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Madame Curie
Businessman (uncredited)
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Lassie: A Força do Coração
Andrew
A cadela Lassie é vendida por sua família, que está com sérios problemas financeiros. Não satisfeita, Lassie viaja 1.000 milhas para retornar à casa de seus verdadeiros donos. Baseado no romance de Eric Knight.
The Man from Down Under
Father Polycarp
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
Insuspeitos
Walmer Hotel Porter (Uncredited)
O professor Richard Myles e sua mulher Frances se preparam para sair em lua de mel na Alemanha quando são contratados pelo serviço secreto inglês. Eles precisam encontrar um misterioso cientista nazista determinado a destruir a Marinha britânica.
O Cisne Negro
The Bishop (uncredited)
Quando o notório pirata Henry Morgan é nomeado governador da Jamaica, ele pede a ajuda de alguns de seus ex-parceiros para livrar o Caribe dos Bucaneiros. Quando um deles aparentemente seqüestra a linda filha do governador anterior e se junta aos rebeldes, as coisas estão prontas para uma briga. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Gentleman Jim
Father Burke
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Nightmare
Sergeant
An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
Dr. Renault's Secret
Inspector Duval (uncredited)
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders coincide with Dr. Forbes arrival, with clues pointing in multiple directions.
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Griswald (uncredited)
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
Pacific Rendezvous
Prof. Harvey Lessmore
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
This Above All
Hospital Chaplain
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Broadway
Pete Dailey
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Correspondente Especial
Jeff, Blind Typist
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
Como Era Verde o Meu Vale
Mr. Parry
Aos 60 anos, Huw Morgan relembra sua vida quando garoto (Roddy McDowall) em uma pequena cidade mineradora. Suas reminiscências revelam a desintegração da unida família Morgan e de seus dedicados pais (Donald Crisp e Sara Allgood), enquanto capta os sentimentos e problemas daquele tempo. Maureen O’Hara e Walter Pidgeon co-estrelam este aclamado clássico das telas nesta história sobre sonhos, lutas e triunfos de uma família.
The Gay Falcon
Inspector Mike Waldeck
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
Lady Scarface
Matt Willis
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
Little Nellie Kelly
Timothy Fogarty
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
A Longa Viagem de Volta
Donkeyman
A bordo do cargueiro Glencairn, a vida da tripulação é vivida com medo, solidão, suspeita e camaradagem. Os homens contrabandeiam bebida e mulheres para bordo, lutam uns com os outros, espionam uns aos outros, confortar uns aos outros quando a morte se aproxima, e ajudam o outro quando em perigo. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Ao Rufar dos Tambores
Reverend Rosenkrantz
Albany, Nova York, 1776. Magdelana Borst e Gilbert Martin casam-se e vão para o Vale do Mohawk, no norte. Devido aos constantes ataques dos índios fogem, juntamente com outros colonos do vale, para um forte próximo, de onde assistem aos índios a destruírem suas fazendas e cabanas. Sarah McKlennar, uma solteirona com uma grande fazenda, vai ajudá-los e contrata Gilbert para trabalhar no campo, dando aos Martin um lugar para ficar. A vida dura da fazenda não é boa para Lana, que foi criada na riqueza e em boas condições. Com o tempo ela começa a gostar da nova vida no Vale do Mohawk, especialmente depois de dar à luz o primeiro filho. Gilbert une-se à milícia que precisa lutar contra as tribos locais, com os soldados britânicos incitando-os para a batalha. Gilbert volta ferido e, enquanto se recupera, há uma grande colheita nos campos. Porém a alegria dura pouco, pois os índios mais uma vez invadem as terras dos colonos.
Horas Amargas
Padraic Pearse
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
O Sinal da Cruz
Chaplain Costello (1944 Re-Release Prologue) (uncredited)
After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are caught, and about to be hauled off, when Marcus, the highest military official in Rome, comes upon them. When he sees their stepdaughter Mercia, he instantly falls in love with her and frees them. Marcus pursues Mercia, which gets him into trouble with Emperor (for being easy on Christians) and with the Empress, who loves him and is jealous.
Knocknagow
Phil Lahy
The agent of an absentee landlord resorts to underhand means in order to evict tenants from land that could be more profitably used for cattle. Adapted from the 1879 novel of the same name.