Robert Emmett O'Connor
Born: 1885-03-18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Died: 1962-09-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Emmett O'Connor (March 18, 1885 – September 4, 1962) was an American film actor. He appeared in 204 films between 1919 and 1950. He is probably best known as the warmhearted bootlegger Paddy Ryan in The Public Enemy (1931) and as Detective Sergeant Henderson pursuing the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera (1935). He also appeared as Jonesy (the older Paramount gate guard) in Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, as well as made a cameo appearance at the very beginning and very end of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short Who Killed Who? (1943).
Filmography
1950
- Sunset Boulevard as Jonesy (uncredited)
1948
- Easter Parade as Policeman (uncredited)
- Tenth Avenue Angel as Mr. O'Callan (uncredited)
1947
- High Wall
- Trail Street as Drunk (uncredited)
- The Hucksters as Frank - Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
- High Barbaree as Stationmaster (uncredited)
- Merton of the Movies as Mac - Restaurant Counterman (uncredited)
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge as Southerner (uncredited)
1946
- Courage of Lassie as Deputy (uncredited)
- Undercurrent as Stationmaster (uncredited)
- Till the Clouds Roll By as Ed (uncredited)
- The Harvey Girls as Conductor (uncredited)
- Boys' Ranch as Druggist
- The Hoodlum Saint as Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Up Goes Maisie as Rose Bowl Watchman (Uncredited)
1945
- They Were Expendable as Silver Dollar Bartender (uncredited)
- The Clock as Policeman (uncredited)
- Anchors Aweigh as Cop (uncredited)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as 2nd Studio Guard (uncredited)
- Main Street After Dark as Policeman (uncredited)
- Adventure as Man in Cantina (uncredited)
- A Gun in His Hand as Veteran Policeman McGuinnes (uncredited)
- The Great American Mug as Laughing Man (uncredited)
1944
- Meet Me in St. Louis as Motorman (uncredited)
- The Thin Man Goes Home as Baggage Attendant on Train (uncredited)
- Barbary Coast Gent as Joe the Bartender (uncredited)
- Gentle Annie as Childers the Bartender (as Robert Emmet O'Connor)
- Rationing as Sheriff (uncredited)
- Return from Nowhere as Diner Cook (uncredited)
1943
- Air Raid Wardens as Charlie Beaugart
- Slightly Dangerous as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Human Comedy as Bartender (uncredited)
- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case as Samson (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Maisie as Proprietor (Uncredited)
- Who Killed Who? as Host (uncredited)
- Best Foot Forward as Train Conductor
- Whistling in Brooklyn as Detective Leo Finnigan
- Shoe Shine Boy as Charlie the Bartender (uncredited)
1942
- Maisie Gets Her Man as Benefit Stage Manager (Uncredited)
- The Greatest Gift as Brother Xavier (uncredited)
- The Omaha Trail as Oxen Owner (uncredited)
- Inflation as Joe's Co-worker (uncredited)
- Jackass Mail as Peter Lawson
1940
- Dance, Girl, Dance as Plainclothesman (uncredited)
- No Time for Comedy as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Hot Steel as Police Inspector
- I Take This Oath as Police Car Driver
- A Fugitive from Justice as Murphy
- Double Alibi as Patrolman Delaney
- The Lone Wolf Strikes as House Detective
1939
- Made for Each Other as Harry (uncredited)
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as First Detective (uncredited)
- Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President as Pat Donegan
- Sergeant Madden as Capt. Crane
- Streets of New York as Police Officer Burke
1938
- Professor Beware as Cop at Estate
- Boy of the Streets as Police Officer Rourke
1937
- A Star Is Born as Santa Anita Clubhouse Bartender (uncredited)
- Waikiki Wedding as Policeman (uncredited)
- Super-Sleuth as Casey
- Wells Fargo as Sea Captain
- The Last Train from Madrid as Secret Service Man (uncredited)
- Girl Overboard as Sergeant Hatton
- New Faces of 1937 as Policeman
- Park Avenue Logger as Police Sergeant
- Trapped by G-Men as Federal Agent Jim
- We Who Are About to Die as Detective Mitchell
- The Frame-Up as Larry Mann (aka John Mench)
- The Crime Nobody Saw as Tim Burke
1936
- Desire as Customs Official
- Little Lord Fauntleroy as Policeman
- Sinner Take All as Police Capt. Greenwood (uncredited)
- Jailbreak as Policeman
- At Sea Ashore as First Immigration Officer
1935
- A Night at the Opera as Henderson
- The Mysterious Mr. Wong as Officer 'Mac' McGillicuddy
- The Lone Wolf Returns as Detective Benson
- Diamond Jim as Brady's Father
- Star of Midnight as Police Sergeant Cleary
- Stolen Harmony as Warden Clark (uncredited)
- Waterfront Lady as Police Lieutenant
- White Lies as Capt. McHenry (uncredited)
1934
- Return of the Terror as Inspector Bradley
- The Big Shakedown as Regan
- A Wicked Woman as Dugan (uncredited)
- Bottoms Up as Detective Rooney
1933
- Mystery of the Wax Museum as Police Sergeant by Christmas Tre
- Picture Snatcher as Police Lt. Casey Nolan
- Lady for a Day as Inspector MacCreary
- Penthouse as Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens
- Bed of Roses as River Boat Captain Scroggins (uncredited)
- Frisco Jenny as Jim Sandoval
- Midnight Mary as Cop
- Gabriel Over the White House as Corrupt Police Inspector (uncredited)
- The Big Brain as Detective (uncredited)
- Don't Bet on Love as Edward Shelton
1932
- Blonde Venus as Dan O'Connor
- American Madness as Police Inspector
- The Beast of the City as Booking Policeman (uncredited)
- The Kid from Spain as Detective Crawford
- Two Kinds of Women as Tim Gohagen
- Blessed Event as Jim
- Taxi! as Cop with Jewish Man (uncredited)
- The Dark Horse as Sheriff
- Night World as The Policeman
- Week-End Marriage as Police Desk Clerk Eddie (uncredited)
- Play Girl as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Big Timer as Dan Wilson
- The Arm of the Law as Chief of Detectives Capt. Blake
1931
- The Public Enemy as Paddy Ryan
- Fanny Foley Herself as Burns
- The Public Defender as Detective Brady
- Reckless Living as Ryan
- Three Who Loved as Police Lt. Tom Rooney
- The Single Sin as Detective
1930
- Up the River as Prison Warden (uncredited)
- Our Blushing Brides as The Detective
- The Big House as Donlin
- Paid as Police Sgt. Cassidy
- The Big Fight as Detective
- Framed as Sergeant Schultze
- Alias French Gertie as Detective Kelcey
- Man to Man as Sheriff
- Shooting Straight as Detective Regan
- In the Next Room as Tim Morel
1929
- Weary River as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Smiling Irish Eyes as Sir Timothy
- The Isle of Lost Ships as Jackson
1928
- The Singing Fool as Cafe Owner Bill
- Dressed to Kill as Detective Gilroy
- The Noose as Jim Conley
- Four Walls as Sullivan
- Freedom of the Press as Boss Maloney
- The Booster
1926
- Tin Gods as Second Foreman
1920
- Drink Hearty
- His Royal Slyness as (uncredited)