Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald (March 10, 1888 - January 14, 1961) was an Irish actor. Born William Joseph Shields in Dublin, he joined the Abbey Theatre, and starred in such plays as Sean O'Casey's Juno And The Paycock, a role he recreated for Alfred Hitchcock in his screen debut in 1930.

Fitzgerald went to Hollywood to star in another O'Casey work, The Plough And The Stars, directed by John Ford. He had a successful Hollywood career in such films as The Long Voyage Home, How Green Was My Valley, And Then There Were None and The Quiet Man. He performed a feat never done in the history of the Academy Awards when he was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same performance, in 1944's Going My Way. He won the Supporting Actor Oscar.

Fitzgerald has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for movies at 6220 Hollywood Blvd. and for television at 7001 Hollywood Blvd.


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and for television at 7001 Hollywood Blvd. In the meantime, he is still acting and is a recurring contributor to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Fitzgerald has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for movies at 6220 Hollywood Blvd. Tom Green's autobiography, titled Hollywood Causes Cancer (co-written with Allen Rucker), was released on October 12, 2004. He won the Supporting Actor Oscar. Nevertheless, it was cancelled by MTV a few months after it premiered. He performed a feat never done in the history of the Academy Awards when he was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same performance, in 1944's Going My Way. Marking a change from his earlier work, he was compared in print to a young Johnny Carson or David Letterman.

He had a successful Hollywood career in such films as The Long Voyage Home, How Green Was My Valley, And Then There Were None and The Quiet Man. In 2003, Green returned with a nightly talk show on MTV called, appropriately, "The New Tom Green Show". Fitzgerald went to Hollywood to star in another O'Casey work, The Plough And The Stars, directed by John Ford. Their Hollywood house also burned down. Born William Joseph Shields in Dublin, he joined the Abbey Theatre, and starred in such plays as Sean O'Casey's Juno And The Paycock, a role he recreated for Alfred Hitchcock in his screen debut in 1930. They were divorced on October 15, 2002. Barry Fitzgerald (March 10, 1888 - January 14, 1961) was an Irish actor. Green married actress Drew Barrymore on July 7, 2001, but filed for divorce on December 17, 2001, citing irreconcilable differences.

After he was diagnosed with testicular cancer he made a one-hour special of his ordeal, including graphic footage of his own surgery. He also starred in and directed a one-hour special called The Tom Green Subway Monkey Hour, where he tormented strangers in Japan. MTV cancelled his TV show in 2000, but he continued to appear on the channel via reruns and other promotional materials. Tom's increasing fame made it harder for him to surprise people on the streets, leading him to target mostly seniors and non-English speakers. He quickly called for the video to be retired because "It's not fair to 98 Degrees." Later he revealed (or possibly joked) that MTV had pressured him to do so.

After airing the music video on his show and appealing to his audience to request it, the song became a instant #1 hit on Total Request Live. He also wrote a song called "Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)", which he came up with during MTV's Spring Break while doing a show on a cruise ship. This fame soon netted Tom roles in several Hollywood movies, including Road Trip, Freddy Got Fingered (which he also directed), and Stealing Harvard. After the show moved to MTV, Tom became famous in the United States.

Some of Green's most notable skits include humping a dead moose (referenced by rapper Eminem), having an X-rated lesbian scene painted on his father's car, drinking milk by sucking a cow's udder, and putting a cow head in his parents' bed while they slept. A number of them involved Green's parents, who consistently appeared to be unamused and occasionally angered by Tom's antics. His show, The Tom Green Show, typically consisted of stunts played by Tom on unsuspecting people. In the early 1990s, Green had a short-lived career as a rapper in a band called Organized Rhyme.

Born in Pembroke, Ontario, Green grew up in Ottawa and had a radio show on the University of Ottawa's campus radio station, CHUO-FM, before getting his first series on local cable TV. Michael Thomas (Tom) Green (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian shock comic, actor, singer and author.