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Biography
Arthur Shields (15 February 1896 – 27 April 1970) was an Irish actor on television, stage and film.
Personal Life
Shields married Bazie Magee in 1920, and their son Adam was born in 1927. In 1943, the couple were divorced and Shields married Aideen O'Connor. Their daughter Christine was born in 1946. Aideen died in 1950. Shields' third marriage to Laurie Bailey in 1955 lasted until his death.Shields died of complications related to emphysema on 27 April 1970, in Santa Barbara, California. He was survived by his wife, a daughter, a son and four grandchildren. His body was cremated, with the ashes taken to his native city of Dublin and buried with military honours in Deans Grange Cemetery.
Movies & TV shows
1962.
1 Movie
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
1960.
1 Movie
1959.
1 TV show
TV
One Step Beyond
1959
One Step Beyond is an American anthology series. The first three seasons of the original series were on ABC.
1958.
1 Movie · 1 TV show
TV
Bat Masterson
1958
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry a...
Enchanted Island
8
1958
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
1957.
1 Movie · 2 TV shows
TV
Maverick
5.33
1957
Roy Huggins is the creator of the American Western television series "maverick". The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and starred James Garner as "Bret Maverick," an articulate ...
TV
Perry Mason
4.33
1957
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
1957
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.
1956.
1 Movie
The King and Four Queens
1956
Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows so that he can find their hidden gold.
1955.
1 Movie · 1 TV show
TV
The Millionaire
1955
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who ins...
Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.
1954.
3 Movies
River of No Return
2
1954
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband
World for Ransom
1954
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnapped a nuclear physicist with the intention of selling him to the highest bidder.
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954
A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse (Gypsy Prince) enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by the stable siren. The girl finally ...
1953.
2 Movies
Scandal at Scourie
1953
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 Victo...
South Sea Woman
1953
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 doesn't agree with the charges and wo...
1951.
6 Movies
Blue Blood
1951
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.
Sealed Cargo
1951
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 di...
The River
4
1951
Jean Renoir's first color feature, shot entirely on location in India, is a visual tour de force. The film is based on a novel by Rumer Godden, and it depicts the growing pains of three young women wi...
The Barefoot Mailman
1951
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 ho...
Apache Drums
1951
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
1950.
1 Movie · 1 TV show
TV
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and...
Tarzan and the Slave Girl
1950
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, i...
1949.
4 Movies
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
3.5
1949
After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Indians, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he's also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fo...
Red Light
1949
Nick Cherney, who is in prison for swindling from a company, sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his brother. He pays another prisoner, who gets out a week before Nick, to kill someone. ...
My Own True Love
1949
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.
1948.
2 Movies
Tap Roots
1948
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is about a county in Mississippi that chooses to leave the state rather than fight in the conflict. An African American named Ward Bond and a Native Am...
Fighting Father Dunne
1948
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
1947.
4 Movies
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
1947
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, ...
The Fabulous Dorseys
1947
The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1947
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,...
1946.
4 Movies
Gallant Journey
1946
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...
Never Say Goodbye
1946
Flip, Phil and Ellen's 8-year old daughter, is very unhappy that her parents are not together after a year of separation. Flip sends a picture of her beautiful mother to the author of her flirtatious ...
Three Strangers
1946
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 ...
The Verdict
1946
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard police officer is investigating the murder of his key witness.
1945.
5 Movies
Phantoms, Inc.
1945
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 t...
The Corn Is Green
1945
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.
The Valley of Decision
1945
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 c...
National Velvet
1945
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside at the home of the Brown family. Mi is encouraged to train the horse when her youngest daughter, Velvet...
1944.
3 Movies
Youth Runs Wild
1944
During WWII, adults are either off fighting or busy in the factories, so juvenile delinquency becomes a major problem back home. Danny Hauser, a wounded soldier, finds this out as he returns and three...
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944
Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish. Father struggles while his childhood friend, also a priest, thrives in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world. H...
The White Cliffs of Dover
6
1944
Susan and her father are going to England for a vacation. Susan met Sir John Ashwood at a society ball and fell in love with him immediately. As a new member of the British gentry, American Susan neve...
1943.
3 Movies
Above Suspicion
1943
A honeymooning couple in Europe is asked to spy on the Nazis for the British intelligence in pre-war Europe. Initially finding the mission fun the trail gets them in real danger soon.
Madame Curie
1943
Marie, a poor physics student, was studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a rese...
The Man from Down Under
1943
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
1942.
7 Movies
This Above All
1942
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 ag...
Pacific Rendezvous
1942
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
Dr. Renault's Secret
1942
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes(Sheppard Strudwick)arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancee (Lynne Roberts) who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renau...
Gentleman Jim
1942
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.
Nightmare
1942
An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
1941.
4 Movies
How Green Was My Valley
1
1941
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans raised coal-mining sons and hoped their youngest would find a better life outside the mines.
Lady Scarface
1941
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...
Confirm or Deny
1941
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.
The Gay Falcon
3.17
1941
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 t...
1940.
2 Movies
The Long Voyage Home
1940
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
Little Nellie Kelly
1940
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
1939.
1 Movie
Drums Along the Mohawk
4
1939
The state of New York was founded in the 17th century. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness a...
1936.
1 Movie
The Plough and the Stars
1936
A husband and wife are fighting over his membership in the army of Ireland. During the Easter rebellion, Barbara Stanwyck plays the wife of an Irish revolutionary.
1932.
1 Movie
The Sign of the Cross
1932
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, ...
1918.
1 Movie
Knocknagow
1918
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.
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