George O'Brien
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday18 April 1899
Died4 September 1985 (age 86)
Place of birthSan Francisco, California, USA
Known credits91
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.
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
2023 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976 · (archive footage)
Cheyenne Autumn
1964 · Major Braden
The 10 from Texas
1961 · (archive footage)
Korea
1959 · Narrator
Studio 57
1954
This Is Your Life
1952 · Self
Gold Raiders
1951 · George O'Brien
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949 · Maj. Mac Allshard
Fort Apache
1948 · Capt. Sam Collingwood
My Wild Irish Rose
1947 · 'Duke' Muldoon
December 7th
1943 · Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
Triple Justice
1940 · Brad Henderson
Stage to Chino
1940 · Dan Clark
Prairie Law
1940 · Brill Austin
Bullet Code
1940 · Steve Holden
Legion of the Lawless
1940 · Jeff Toland
The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939 · Cliff Mason
The Fighting Gringo
1939 · Wade Barton
Timber Stampede
1939 · Scott Baylor
Racketeers of the Range
1939 · Barney O'Dell
Trouble in Sundown
1939 · Clint Bradford
Arizona Legion
1939 · Boone Yeager
Lawless Valley
1938 · Larry Rhodes
The Renegade Ranger
1938 · Captain Jack Steele
Painted Desert
1938 · Bob McVey
Border G-Man
1938 · Jim Galloway
Gun Law
1938 · Tom O'Malley
Windjammer
1937 · Bruce Lane
Hollywood Cowboy
1937 · Jeffery Carson
Park Avenue Logger
1937 · Grant Curran
Daniel Boone
1936 · Daniel Boone
The Border Patrolman
1936 · Bob Wallace
O'Malley of the Mounted
1936 · Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
Thunder Mountain
1935 · Kal Emerson
Hard Rock Harrigan
1935 · Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
Whispering Smith Speaks
1935 · Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
The Cowboy Millionaire
1935 · Bob Walker
When a Man's a Man
1935 · Larry Knight
The Dude Ranger
1934 · Ernest 'Dude' Selby
Ever Since Eve
1934 · Neil Rogers
Frontier Marshal
1934 · Michael Wyatt
The Last Trail
1933 · Tom Daley
Life in the Raw
1933 · Jim Barry
Smoke Lightning
1933 · Smoke Mason
Robbers' Roost
1932 · Jim Wall
The Golden West
1932 · David Lynch / Motano
Mystery Ranch
1932 · Bob Sanborn
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