Eugene O'Brien

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1880-11-14 (86 years old)

Deathday

1966-04-29

Place of Birth

Boulder, Colorado, USA

Eugene O'Brien

Biography

From Wikipedia Eugene O'Brien (Birthname: Louis O'Brien b. November 14, 1880 in Boulder, Colorado – d. April 29, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) was a silent film star and stage actor. He studied medicine at the University of Colorado at Boulder but was keener on the stage than becoming a doctor. O'Brien switched to civil engineering under his family's guidance, but his heart was still set on becoming an actor. He moved to New York City and was "discovered" by theatrical impresario Charles Frohman who signed O'Brien to a three-year contract and put him in The Builder of Bridges, which opened on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on October 26, ...

Acting

1926

Flames

as Herbert Landis

1922

John Smith

as John Smith

1961

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)

1916

The Chaperon

as Jim Ogden

1924

Secrets

as John Carlton

1916

Poor Little Peppina

as Hugh Carroll

1918

1918

The Spirit That Wins

as The Soldier

1919

Sealed Hearts

as Jack Prentiss

1926

Fine Manners

as Brian Alden

1918

A Romance of the Underworld

as Thomas McDonald

1920

The Wonderful Chance

as Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow

1918

The Safety Curtain

as Captain Merryon

1927

The Romantic Age

as Stephen Winslow

1925

Souls for Sables

as Fred Garlan

1916

The Rise of Susan

as Clavering Gordon

1921

Clay Dollars

as Bruce Edwards

1925

Siege

as Kenyon Ruyland

1925

Dangerous Innocence

as Major Seymour

1918

By Right of Purchase

as Chadwick Himes

1917

Poppy

as Sir Evelyn Carson

1918

The Ghosts of Yesterday

as Howard Marston

1918

Her Only Way

as Joseph Marshall

1917

The Moth

as Cpt. Bridgey

1918

De Luxe Annie

as Jimmy Fitzpatrick

1923

1924

The Only Woman

as Rex Herrington

1919

The Broken Melody

as Stewart Grant

1921

The Last Door

as The Magnet

1916

The Scarlet Woman

as Robert Blake

1925

Graustark

as Grenfall Lorry

1915

The Moonstone

as Franklin Blake

1918

Little Miss Hoover

as Major Adam Baldwin

1919

Fires of Faith

as Harry Hammond, a Broker

1915

Just Out of College

as Edward Worthington Swinger

1919

The Perfect Lover

as Brian Lazar

1921

Gilded Lies

as Keene McComb

1920

His Wife's Money

as Richard Flint

1921

Worlds Apart

as Hugh Ledyard

1920

A Fool and His Money

as John B. Smart

1921

Is Life Worth Living?

as Melville Marley

Production

2016

The Flag

as Writer

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