Editing Barry Fitzgerald (section)

===Later years===
Fitzgerald never married. In Hollywood, he shared an apartment with his stand-in, Angus Duncan "Gus" Taillon, an [[Iroquois]] man, who died in 1953.<ref name="obit"/><ref>{{cite news| title=Angus D. Taillon| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/05/10/archives/angus-d-taillon.html?searchResultPosition=1| newspaper=The New York Times| date=10 May 1953| page=88| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Fitzgerald returned to live in Dublin in 1959,<ref name=boy>Boylan 1999, p. 130.</ref> where he lived at 2 Seafield Ave, Monkstown. In October that year, he underwent brain surgery.<ref>{{cite news| title=Barry Fitzgerald Has Brain Surgery in Dublin| url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-barry-fitzgerald-h/166786628/| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| agency=[[United Press International]]| date=16 October 1959| page=15}}</ref> He appeared to recover, but in late 1960 he re-entered the hospital. He died, as William Joseph Shields, of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in St Patrick's Hospital, James Street, on 4 January 1961.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/ebb2517995793 
|title=General Registrar's Office| website=IrishGenealogy.ie| access-date=14 January 2017}}{{dead link|date=February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Actor Barry Fitzgerald dies in Dublin |url=http://documents.latimes.com/actor-barry-fitzgerald-dies-dublin/ |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=5 January 1961 |access-date=9 June 2021}}</ref><ref name="irish">"BARRY FITZGERALD DIES IN DUBLIN HOSPITAL". ''The Irish Times''. Dublin. 5 January 1961: 4.</ref>

Fitzgerald has two stars on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], for motion pictures at 6252 Hollywood Boulevard and for television at 7001 Hollywood Boulevard.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.walkoffame.com/barry-fitzgerald| title=Barry Fitzgerald| website=Hollywood Walk of Fame| access-date=26 February 2025}}</ref>