Geraldine Fitzgerald
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Dublin, Ireland
The daughter of a Dublin attorney, Geraldine Fitzgerald was still in her teens when she made her theatrical bow with the Gate Theatre. In films from 1934, she played a series of petulant ingénues in a string of forgettable quota quickies; in later years, she sarcastically summed up her early screen roles by repeating her most frequent snatch of dialogue, "But daddy, it's my birthday!" With her first husband, she moved to New York in 1938, where she was hired by her old Gate Theatre colleague Orson Welles to star in the Mercury Theater production Heartbreak House. This led to several choice Hollywood assignments in such films as Dark Victory (1939) and Wuthering Heights (1939). Forever battling with studio executives over her often inconsequential screen assignments (exceptions included such roles as Edith Galt in the 1945 biopic Wilson), Fitzgerald briefly gave up films in 1948 to return to the stage. Carefully picking and choosing her subsequent movie roles, she established herself as a reliable character actress in quality films like Ten North Frederick (1958) and The Pawnbroker (1965). She briefly pursued a folksinging career before returning to Broadway in the ultra-demanding role of Mary Tyrone in the 1971 revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night. Active into the late '80s, Fitzgerald has added a welcome dash of Hibernian feistiness to such projects as Arthur (1981) and Easy Money (1983). Geraldine Fitzgerald is the mother of prominent British film director Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Mango Tree |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Forget-Me-Not-Lane |
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— | 2003 |
91% | King of the Hill |
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— | 1993 |
13% | Arthur 2: On the Rocks |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Circle of Violence: A Family Drama |
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— | 1986 |
30% | Poltergeist II: The Other Side |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Loving |
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— | 1984 |
60% | Easy Money |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Kennedy: The Presidential Years |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Dixie: Changing Habits |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Blood Link |
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— | 1982 |
88% | Arthur |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | American Short Story |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Diary of the Dead |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Lovespell |
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— | 1979 |
60% | Ciao Maschio (Bye Bye Monkey) |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Tartuffe |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Echoes of a Summer |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Beyond the Horizon |
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— | 1976 |
83% | Harry and Tonto |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd |
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— | 1974 |
67% | The Last American Hero |
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— | 1973 |
86% | Rachel, Rachel |
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— | 1968 |
82% | The Pawnbroker |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | The Obsessed |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | So Evil My Love |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Nobody Lives Forever |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Three Strangers |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | O.S.S. |
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— | 1946 |
80% | The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (Guilty of Murder?) |
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— | 1945 |
89% | Wilson |
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— | 1944 |
80% | Watch on the Rhine |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | The Gay Sisters |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Flight from Destiny |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Shining Victory |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | 'Til We Meet Again |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | A Child Is Born |
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— | 1940 |
88% | Dark Victory |
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— | 1939 |
96% | Wuthering Heights |
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— | 1939 |
100% | Young and Innocent |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | Mill on the Floss |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Radio Parade of 1935 (Radio Follies) |
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— | 1935 |
No Score Yet | Open All Night |
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— | 1934 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Masterpiece
1971-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Golden Girls
1985-1992
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No Score Yet |
St. Elsewhere
1982-1988
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No Score Yet |
Trapper John, M.D.
1979-1986
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No Score Yet |
Great Performances
2000
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No Score Yet |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
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