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Fitzgerald went to Hollywood to star in another O ' Casey work, The Plough and the Stars ( 1936 ), directed by John Ford.

He had a successful Hollywood career in such films as The Long Voyage Home ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), And Then There Were None ( 1945 ), The Naked City ( 1948 ), and The Quiet Man ( 1952 ).

Fitzgerald achieved a feat unmatched in the history of the Academy Awards: he was nominated for both the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the same performance, as " Father Fitzgibbon " in Going My Way ( 1944 ).

( Academy Award rules have since been changed to prevent this.

) He won the Best Supporting Actor Award ; an avid golfer, he later broke the head off his Oscar statue while practising his golf swing.

( During World War II, Oscar statues were made of plaster instead of gold, owing to wartime metal shortages.