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 Older Paramount Gate Guard Jonesy (uncredited)
1948
- Easter Parade as Policeman (uncredited)
- Tenth Avenue Angel as Mr. O'Callan (uncredited)
1947
- Trail Street as Drunk (uncredited)
- The Hucksters as Frank - Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
- High Wall
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge as Southerner (uncredited)
- High Barbaree as Stationmaster (uncredited)
- Merton of the Movies as Mac - Restaurant Counterman (uncredited)
1946
- Till the Clouds Roll By as Ed (uncredited)
- Undercurrent as Stationmaster (uncredited)
- Boys' Ranch as Druggist
- The Harvey Girls as Conductor (uncredited)
- Courage of Lassie as Deputy (uncredited)
- The Hoodlum Saint as Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Up Goes Maisie as Rose Bowl Watchman (Uncredited)
1945
- The Clock as Policeman (uncredited)
- They Were Expendable as Silver Dollar Bartender (uncredited)
- Anchors Aweigh as Cop (uncredited)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as 2nd Studio Guard (uncredited)
- Adventure as Man in Cantina (uncredited)
- A Gun in His Hand as Veteran Policeman McGuinnes (uncredited)
- Main Street After Dark as Policeman (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)
- Return from Nowhere as Diner Cook (uncredited)
- Rationing as Sheriff (uncredited)
1943
- The Human Comedy as Bartender (uncredited)
- Air Raid Wardens as Charlie Beaugart
- Slightly Dangerous as Reporter (uncredited)
- Who Killed Who? as Host (uncredited)
- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case as Samson (uncredited)
- Best Foot Forward as Train Conductor
- Swing Shift Maisie as Proprietor (Uncredited)
- Shoe Shine Boy as Charlie the Bartender (uncredited)
- Whistling in Brooklyn as Detective Leo Finnigan
1942
- 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
- Maisie Gets Her Man as Benefit Stage Manager (Uncredited)
1940
- Dance, Girl, Dance as Plainclothesman (uncredited)
- Hot Steel as Police Inspector
- No Time for Comedy as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- 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)
- Sergeant Madden as Capt. Crane
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as First Detective (uncredited)
- Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President as Pat Donegan
- Streets of New York as Police Officer Burke
1938
- Professor Beware as Cop at Estate
- Boy of the Streets as Police Officer Rourke
1937
- Waikiki Wedding as Policeman (uncredited)
- A Star Is Born as Santa Anita Clubhouse Bartender (uncredited)
- Super-Sleuth as Casey
- Girl Overboard as Sergeant Hatton
- Park Avenue Logger as Police Sergeant
- Wells Fargo as Sea Captain
- The Last Train from Madrid as Secret Service Man (uncredited)
- We Who Are About to Die as Detective Mitchell
- The Crime Nobody Saw as Tim Burke
- The Frame-Up as Larry Mann (aka John Mench)
- New Faces of 1937 as Policeman
- Trapped by G-Men as Federal Agent Jim
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
- Waterfront Lady as Police Lieutenant
- Stolen Harmony as Warden Clark (uncredited)
- Diamond Jim as Brady's Father
- Star of Midnight as Police Sergeant Cleary
- The Lone Wolf Returns as Detective Benson
- White Lies as Capt. McHenry (uncredited)
- The Mysterious Mr. Wong as Officer 'Mac' McGillicuddy
1934
- A Wicked Woman as Dugan (uncredited)
- Bottoms Up as Detective Rooney
- The Big Shakedown as Regan
- Return of the Terror as Inspector Bradley
1933
- Picture Snatcher as Police Lt. Casey Nolan
- Lady for a Day as Inspector MacCreary
- Mystery of the Wax Museum as Police Sergeant by Christmas Tre
- Bed of Roses as River Boat Captain Scroggins (uncredited)
- Midnight Mary as Cop
- The Big Brain as Detective (uncredited)
- Penthouse as Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens
- Don't Bet on Love as Edward Shelton
- Gabriel Over the White House as Corrupt Police Inspector (uncredited)
- Frisco Jenny as Jim Sandoval
1932
- Blonde Venus as Dan O'Connor
- American Madness as Police Inspector
- The Beast of the City as Booking Policeman (uncredited)
- Two Kinds of Women as Tim Gohagen
- The Dark Horse as Sheriff
- Blessed Event as Jim
- Night World as The Policeman
- Taxi! as Cop with Jewish Man (uncredited)
- The Big Timer as Dan Wilson
- Week-End Marriage as Police Desk Clerk Eddie (uncredited)
- Play Girl as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Arm of the Law as Chief of Detectives Capt. Blake
- The Kid from Spain as Detective Crawford
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 Fight as Detective
- The Big House as Donlin
- Framed as Sergeant Schultze
- Alias French Gertie as Detective Kelcey
- Man to Man as Sheriff
- Shooting Straight as Detective Regan
- Paid as Police Sgt. Cassidy
- In the Next Room as Tim Morel
1929
- Weary River as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Isle of Lost Ships as Jackson
- Smiling Irish Eyes as Sir Timothy
1928
- The Singing Fool as Cafe Owner Bill
- The Noose as Jim Conley
- Freedom of the Press as Boss Maloney
- Four Walls as Sullivan
- The Booster
- Dressed to Kill as Detective Gilroy
1926
- Tin Gods as Second Foreman
1920
- Drink Hearty
- His Royal Slyness as (uncredited)