The best Barry Fitzgerald’s comedy movies

Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald

10/03/1888- 14/01/1961
We present our ranking of the best Barry Fitzgerald’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Barry Fitzgerald.
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Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/02/1938
  • Character: Aloysius Gogarty
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man
7.7/10
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Going My Way

Going My Way
7/10
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.

Juno and the Paycock

Juno and the Paycock
4.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/06/1930
  • Character: The Orator
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.

The Catered Affair

The Catered Affair
7.4/10
At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Jane's parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph's parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates. All of a sudden, it is a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of his money is going towards a wedding neither he, or Jane or Ralph really want.

Happy Ever After

Happy Ever After
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1954
  • Character: Thady O'Heggarty
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.

Easy Come, Easy Go

Easy Come, Easy Go
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/03/1947
  • Character: Martin L. Donovan
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.

Variety Girl

Variety Girl
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/08/1947
  • Character: Himself
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

Miss Tatlock's Millions

Miss Tatlock's Millions
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/11/1948
  • Character: Denno Noonan
After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the estate of Miss Tatlock's millions.

Rooney

Rooney
6.4/10
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

Welcome Stranger

Welcome Stranger
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/06/1947
  • Character: Dr. Joseph McRory
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?

The Sainted Sisters

The Sainted Sisters
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/04/1948
  • Character: Robbie McCleary
Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with loot from their latest scam, hide out in a small Maine town, near the Canadian border. However - the residents of this small town aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are.

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
6.4/10
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

Top o' the Morning

Top o' the Morning
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/08/1949
  • Character: Sergeant Briany McNaughton
A singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone...and romance the local policeman's daughter.

The Stork Club

The Stork Club
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 28/12/1945
  • Character: Jerry B. 'J.B.' / 'Pop' Bates
Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry Fitzgerald, Don Defore, Andy Russell, Iria Adrian and Robert Benchley.

Duffy's Tavern

Duffy's Tavern
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 28/09/1945
  • Character: Bing Crosby's Father
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

Ha da venì... don Calogero!

Ha da venì... don Calogero!
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1952
  • Character: Don Calogero

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