George O'Brien

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-04-18 (86 years old)

Deathday

1985-09-04

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

George O'Brien

Biography

George O'Brien (April 19, 1899 – September 4, 1985) was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the talkie era of the 1930s, best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. He also starred in East Side, West Side (1927), The Johnstown Floor (1926), and John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924). The day before his seventh birthday the Great Earthquake of 1906 hit San Francisco. He and his family nearly died and were homeless for months. He served in World War I and World War II.

Acting

1927

1926

3 Bad Men

as Dan O'Malley

1927

Is Zat So?

as Ed 'Chick' Cowan

1949

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

as Maj. Mac Allshard

1964

Cheyenne Autumn

as Major Braden

1922

Ebb Tide

as Islander

1948

Fort Apache

as Capt. Sam Collingwood

1932

The Gay Caballero

as Ted Radcliffe

1934

The Dude Ranger

as Ernest 'Dude' Selby

1925

The Iron Horse

as Davy Brandon

1943

December 7th

as Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)

1936

Daniel Boone

as Daniel Boone

1928

Noah's Ark

as Travis / Japheth

1931

A Holy Terror

as Tony Bard aka Woodbury

1927

Paid to Love

as Crown Prince Michae

1929

Salute

as Cadet John Randall

1935

1938

The Renegade Ranger

as Captain Jack Steele

1931

Seas Beneath

as Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley

1926

Fig Leaves

as Adam Smith

1926

The Blue Eagle

as George Darcy

1935

When a Man's a Man

as Larry Knight

1927

1959

Korea

as Narrator

1936

The Border Patrolman

as Bob Wallace

1940

Bullet Code

as Steve Holden

1951

Gold Raiders

as George O'Brien

1976

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

as (archive footage)

1937

Hollywood Cowboy

as Jeffery Carson

1937

Windjammer

as Bruce Lane

1937

Park Avenue Logger

as Grant Curran

1932

Mystery Ranch

as Bob Sanborn

1930

Rough Romance

as Billy West

1929

True Heaven

as Lieutenant Philip Gresson

1926

1928

1947

My Wild Irish Rose

as 'Duke' Muldoon

1924

The Sea Hawk

as Galley Slave (uncredited)

1930

1922

1932

The Golden West

as David Lynch / Motano

1929

Masked Emotions

as Bramdlet Dickery

1933

Life in the Raw

as Jim Barry

1940

Triple Justice

as Brad Henderson

1939

Arizona Legion

as Boone Yeager

1934

Ever Since Eve

as Neil Rogers

1939

1938

Painted Desert

as Bob McVey

1936

O'Malley of the Mounted

as Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard

1938

Border G-Man

as Jim Galloway

1935

Whispering Smith Speaks

as Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith

1939

Timber Stampede

as Scott Baylor

1935

Thunder Mountain

as Kal Emerson

1931

1940

Legion of the Lawless

as Jeff Toland

1935

Hard Rock Harrigan

as Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan

1938

Lawless Valley

as Larry Rhodes

1939

Trouble in Sundown

as Clint Bradford

1934

Frontier Marshal

as Michael Wyatt

1924

1925

Havoc

as Dick Chappel

1926

Rustlin' for Cupid

as Bradley Blatchford

1926

1922

The Ghost Breaker

as One of the Ghosts (uncredited)

1928

Blindfold

as Robert Kelly

1925

The Fighting Heart

as Denny Bolton

1925

Thank You

as Kenneth Jamieson

1938

Gun Law

as Tom O'Malley

1925

1933

The Last Trail

as Tom Daley

1932

Robbers' Roost

as Jim Wall

1939

Racketeers of the Range

as Barney O'Dell

1923

1940

Stage to Chino

as Dan Clark

1923

Woman-Proof

as Bill Burleigh

1930

1931

Fair Warning

as Whistlin' Dan Barry

1939

The Fighting Gringo

as Wade Barton

1961

The 10 from Texas

as (archive footage)

1924

The Roughneck

as Jerry Delaney

1933

Smoke Lightning

as Smoke Mason

1940

Prairie Law

as Brill Austin

1928

Honor Bound

as John Oglegree

1932

The Rainbow Trail

as John Shefford

1924

The Man Who Came Back

as Henry Potter

1924

The Painted Lady

as Luther Smith

2023

The Only Girl in the Orchestra

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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