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
- High Wall
- The Hucksters as Frank - Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
- Trail Street as Drunk (uncredited)
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge as Southerner (uncredited)
- High Barbaree as Stationmaster (uncredited)
- Merton of the Movies as Mac - Restaurant Counterman (uncredited)
1946
- Undercurrent as Stationmaster (uncredited)
- The Harvey Girls as Conductor (uncredited)
- Till the Clouds Roll By as Ed (uncredited)
- The Hoodlum Saint as Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Boys' Ranch as Druggist
- Courage of Lassie as Deputy (uncredited)
- Up Goes Maisie as Rose Bowl Watchman (Uncredited)
1945
- 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)
- The Clock as Policeman (uncredited)
- Adventure as Man in Cantina (uncredited)
- Main Street After Dark as Policeman (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
- The Human Comedy as Bartender (uncredited)
- Slightly Dangerous as Reporter (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Maisie as Proprietor (Uncredited)
- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case as Samson (uncredited)
- Who Killed Who? as Host (uncredited)
- Air Raid Wardens as Charlie Beaugart
- Whistling in Brooklyn as Detective Leo Finnigan
- Best Foot Forward as Train Conductor
- 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)
- Double Alibi as Patrolman Delaney
- The Lone Wolf Strikes as House Detective
- A Fugitive from Justice as Murphy
- No Time for Comedy as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- I Take This Oath as Police Car Driver
- Hot Steel as Police Inspector
1939
- Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President as Pat Donegan
- Made for Each Other as Harry (Elevator Starter) (uncredited)
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as First Detective (uncredited)
- Streets of New York as Police Officer Burke
- Sergeant Madden as Capt. Crane
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)
- Wells Fargo as Sea Captain
- Waikiki Wedding as Policeman (uncredited)
- New Faces of 1937 as Policeman
- We Who Are About to Die as Detective Mitchell
- Super-Sleuth as Casey
- The Last Train from Madrid as Secret Service Man (uncredited)
- Park Avenue Logger as Police Sergeant
- Girl Overboard as Sergeant Hatton
- The Frame-Up as Larry Mann (aka John Mench)
- The Crime Nobody Saw as Tim Burke
- 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
- Diamond Jim as Brady's Father
- The Lone Wolf Returns as Detective Benson
- Star of Midnight as Police Sergeant Cleary
- White Lies as Capt. McHenry (uncredited)
- The Mysterious Mr. Wong as Officer 'Mac' McGillicuddy
- Stolen Harmony as Warden Clark (uncredited)
1934
- Bottoms Up as Detective Rooney
- A Wicked Woman as Dugan (uncredited)
- The Big Shakedown as Regan
- Return of the Terror as Inspector Bradley
1933
- Mystery of the Wax Museum as Police Sergeant by Christmas Tre
- Lady for a Day as Inspector MacCreary
- Penthouse as Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens
- Midnight Mary as Cop
- Gabriel Over the White House as Corrupt Police Inspector (uncredited)
- Picture Snatcher as Police Lt. Casey Nolan
- Bed of Roses as River Boat Captain Scroggins (uncredited)
- Frisco Jenny as Jim Sandoval
- 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
- Taxi! as Cop with Jewish Man (uncredited)
- The Kid from Spain as Detective Crawford
- The Beast of the City as Booking Policeman (uncredited)
- Blessed Event as Jim
- The Dark Horse as Sheriff
- Night World as The Policeman
- The Arm of the Law as Chief of Detectives Capt. Blake
- Week-End Marriage as Police Desk Clerk Eddie (uncredited)
- Two Kinds of Women as Tim Gohagen
- The Big Timer as Dan Wilson
- Play Girl as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
1931
- The Public Enemy as Paddy Ryan
- The Public Defender as Detective Brady
- Reckless Living as Ryan
- The Single Sin as Detective
- Fanny Foley Herself as Burns
- Three Who Loved as Police Lt. Tom Rooney
1930
- The Big House as Donlin
- Paid as Police Sgt. Cassidy
- Our Blushing Brides as The Detective
- Up the River as Prison Warden (uncredited)
- Alias French Gertie as Detective Kelcey
- The Big Fight as Detective
- Framed as Sergeant Schultze
- Man to Man as Sheriff
- In the Next Room as Tim Morel
- Shooting Straight as Detective Regan
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
- Dressed to Kill as Detective Gilroy
- Freedom of the Press as Boss Maloney
- The Noose as Jim Conley
- Four Walls as Sullivan
- The Booster
1926
- Tin Gods as Second Foreman
1920
- His Royal Slyness as (uncredited)
- Drink Hearty