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
Also known As
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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
as The Man (Anses)
1926
as Dan O'Malley
1927
as Ed 'Chick' Cowan
1949
as Maj. Mac Allshard
1964
as Major Braden
1922
as Islander
1948
as Capt. Sam Collingwood
1932
as Ted Radcliffe
1934
as Ernest 'Dude' Selby
1925
as Davy Brandon
1943
as Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
1936
as Daniel Boone
1928
as Travis / Japheth
1931
as Tony Bard aka Woodbury
1927
as Crown Prince Michae
1929
as Cadet John Randall
1935
as Bob Walker
1938
as Captain Jack Steele
1931
as Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley
1926
as Adam Smith
1926
as George Darcy
1935
as Larry Knight
1927
as John Breen
1959
as Narrator
1936
as Bob Wallace
1940
as Steve Holden
1951
as George O'Brien
1976
as (archive footage)
1937
as Jeffery Carson
1937
as Bruce Lane
1937
as Grant Curran
1932
as Bob Sanborn
1930
as Billy West
1929
as Lieutenant Philip Gresson
1926
as Tom O'Day
1928
as George
1947
as 'Duke' Muldoon
1924
as Galley Slave (uncredited)
1930
as Buck Duane
1922
as Deck Hand
1932
as David Lynch / Motano
1929
as Bramdlet Dickery
1933
as Jim Barry
1940
as Brad Henderson
1939
as Boone Yeager
1934
as Neil Rogers
1939
as Cliff Mason
1938
as Bob McVey
1936
as Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
1938
as Jim Galloway
1935
as Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
1939
as Scott Baylor
1935
as Kal Emerson
1931
as Jim Lassiter
1940
as Jeff Toland
1935
as Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
1938
as Larry Rhodes
1939
as Clint Bradford
1934
as Michael Wyatt
1924
as Louis
1925
as Dick Chappel
1926
as Bradley Blatchford
1926
as Nostromo
1922
as One of the Ghosts (uncredited)
1928
as Robert Kelly
1925
as Denny Bolton
1925
as Kenneth Jamieson
1938
as Tom O'Malley
1925
as Tony
1933
as Tom Daley
1932
as Jim Wall
1939
as Barney O'Dell
1923
as Clifford
1940
as Dan Clark
1923
as Bill Burleigh
1930
as Buck Duane
1931
as Whistlin' Dan Barry
1939
as Wade Barton
1961
as (archive footage)
1924
as Jerry Delaney
1933
as Smoke Mason
1940
as Brill Austin
1928
as John Oglegree
1932
as John Shefford
1924
as Henry Potter
1924
as Luther Smith
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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