William H. O'Brien
Born: 1891-07-19 in Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 1981-04-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Australian born William H. O'Brien began his screen acting career in Australia in 1918, then resumed in Hollywood in 1921. He continued acting in films and television series to 1971.
Filmography
1971
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Portobello Road Passerby (uncredited)
- Support Your Local Gunfighter as Old Chess Player (uncredited)
- The Todd Killings as Mr. Miller (uncredited)
1969
- Topaz as Butler (uncredited)
- The Trouble with Girls as Hotel Lobby Extra (uncredited)
- The Comic as Funeral Guest (uncredited)
1967
- The Graduate as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
- Valley of the Dolls as Bartender (uncredited)
1966
- Munster, Go Home! as Man at Customs (uncredited)
- Not With My Wife, You Don't! as Waiter at Officer's Ball (uncredited)
- Gunpoint
- One of Our Spies Is Missing as The Butler (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
- Bewitched as Waiter (uncredited)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Grandpa
1963
- The Wheeler Dealers as Waiter (uncredited)
- Critic's Choice as Audience Member (uncredited)
1962
- To Kill a Mockingbird as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- Gypsy as Audience Member (uncredited)
- Pressure Point as Bund Meeting Spectator
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Patient (uncredited)
- Judgment at Nuremberg as German Prisoner in Cafeteria (uncredited)
- The Children's Hour as Funeral Assistant (uncredited)
- King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein as Waiter (uncredited)
1960
- Outlaws as Waiter (uncredited)
- Ocean's Eleven as Waiter at Burlesque Club (uncredited)
- Elmer Gantry as Train Conductor
- Who Was That Lady? as Passenger Exiting Elevator (uncredited)
- Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus as Circus Spectator
1959
- Bonanza as Delegate (uncredited)
- The Twilight Zone as Audience Member (uncredited)
- Rawhide as Bartender (uncredited)
- Some Like It Hot as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
- Pillow Talk as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- The Story on Page One as Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)
- Cry Tough
1958
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Waiter (uncredited)
- The Last Hurrah as Man (uncredited)
- Money, Women and Guns as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- Murder by Contract as Hotel Take-Out Delivery Man (uncredited)
- Home Before Dark as Waiter at Christmas Party
1957
- Perry Mason as Bartender (uncredited)
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Crommer Party Guest (uncredited)
- Witness for the Prosecution as Barrister (uncredited)
- Sweet Smell of Success as Waiter at 21 (uncredited)
- The Helen Morgan Story as Surprise Party Guest (uncredited)
- Bombers B-52 as Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)
- The Unholy Wife as Juror (uncredited)
- Designing Woman as Party Guest (uncredited)
- The Joker is Wild as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- Zero Hour! as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- I Was a Teenage Frankenstein as Rooming House Boarder (uncredited)
- The Tattered Dress as Juror (uncredited)
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin as Townsman (uncredited)
- Chicago Confidential as Dixon's Valet (uncredited)
- Carnival Rock as Onlooker at Fire (uncredited)
1956
- Around the World in 80 Days as Extra (uncredited)
- The Harder They Fall as Ringsider (uncredited)
- There's Always Tomorrow
- Anything Goes as Waiter (uncredited)
1955
- Cheyenne as Riverboat Bartender (uncredited)
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Townsman (uncredited)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Juror (uncredited)
- The Seven Year Itch as Man at Train Station (uncredited)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy as Townsman (uncredited)
- Battle Cry as Bartender (uncredited)
- Daddy Long Legs as Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
- Illegal as Butler (uncredited)
- It's Always Fair Weather as Waiter (uncredited)
- New York Confidential
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops as Movie Patron (uncredited)
- Sincerely Yours as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- The Square Jungle
1954
- The High and the Mighty as Restaurant Cook
- Sabrina as Bartender (uncredited)
- Dial M for Murder as Waiter at Stag Dinner (uncredited)
- A Star Is Born as Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
- The Far Country as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Bounty Hunter as Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
- Désirée as Servant (uncredited)
- Woman's World as Servant
1953
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as Ship Passenger (uncredited)
- Julius Caesar as Senator (uncredited)
- Trouble Along the Way as Bartender Joe
- Fort Ti as Bartender
1952
- High Noon as Church Member (uncredited)
- The Bad and the Beautiful as Waiter at Party (uncredited)
- Carrie as Waiter (uncredited)
- Horizons West as Barfly (uncredited)
- Something to Live For as Waiter (uncredited)
- The Star as Waiter at Party (uncredited)
- Hong Kong as Observer at Scene (uncredited)
1951
- A Streetcar Named Desire as Waiter (uncredited)
- A Place in the Sun as Servant at Eastman's Party (uncredited)
- Ace in the Hole as Customer at Minosa's (uncredited)
- Iron Man as Waiter (uncredited)
- He Ran All the Way as Man Entering Apt. Building (uncredited)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man as Fight Spectator (uncredited)
- Superman and the Mole Men as Townsman (uncredited)
- Bannerline
- The Strange Door
- On the Riviera as Waiter at Party (uncredited)
- Hollywood Story as Café Waiter (uncredited)
1950
- All About Eve as Waiter at Margo's Party (uncredited)
- Father of the Bride as Waiter (uncredited)
- The Men as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- The Damned Don't Cry as Waiter at Party (uncredited)
- Let's Dance as Waiter (uncredited)
- Frenchie as Townsman (uncredited)
- Woman in Hiding as Conventioneer (uncredited)
- Louisa as Waiter (uncredited)
- Shakedown as Waiter (uncredited)
- Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town as Waiter at Party (uncredited)
1949
- Flamingo Road
- Special Agent as Barber's Customer (uncredited)
- It's a Great Feeling as Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
- Alias the Champ as Audience Spectator (uncredited)
- The Doolins of Oklahoma as Bartender (uncredited)
- Johnny Allegro
- Once More, My Darling as Waiter
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff as Room Service Waiter (uncredited)
- Miss Grant Takes Richmond as Waiter (uncredited)
1948
- Sorry, Wrong Number as Waiter at Wedding Reception (uncredited)
- You Gotta Stay Happy as Waiter (Uncredited)
- Jungle Goddess as Bartender (uncredited)
- Race Street as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1947
- Daisy Kenyon as Bartender at Stork Club (uncredited)
- Body and Soul as Bartender (uncredited)
- I Walk Alone as Waiter (uncredited)
- Undercover Maisie as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- The Unsuspected as Servant with Tray (uncredited)
- Road to Rio as Ship's Waiter (uncredited)
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue as Executive (uncredited)
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap as Card Dealer (uncredited)
- The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
- Ivy as Barrister (uncredited)
1946
- The Big Sleep as Waiter (uncredited)
- The Best Years of Our Lives as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- Canyon Passage as Miner (uncredited)
- Undercurrent as Waiter (uncredited)
- Dressed to Kill as Detective at Murder Scene
- The Time of Their Lives as Danbury Servant (uncredited)
- Angel on My Shoulder as Court Spectator (uncredited)
- The Verdict as Constable (uncredited)
- Nobody Lives Forever as Waiter (uncredited)
- She-Wolf of London as Constable (uncredited)
- Do You Love Me as Waiter at Mindy's (uncredited)
- Two Sisters from Boston as Recording Lab Assistant (uncredited)
- The Hoodlum Saint as Waiter at Wedding Brunch (uncredited)
1945
- Fallen Angel as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray as Footman (uncredited)
- The Woman in Green as Pembrook House Waiter (uncredited)
- A Song to Remember as Guest at Salon Concert (uncredited)
- The Naughty Nineties as Troupe Member (uncredited)
- Lady on a Train
- Hollywood Scout as Man with Chimpanzee (uncredited)
- The Tiger Woman as Waiter (uncredited)
- Kitty as Coach Footman (uncredited)
1944
- The Thin Man Goes Home as Train Passenger (uncredited)
- The Climax as Audience Member (Uncredited)
- Christmas Holiday as Waiter (uncredited)
- In Society as Party Waiter (uncredited)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Servant Peeking in Keyhole (uncredited)
1943
- So Proudly We Hail as Troop Ship Survivor (Uncredited)
- Action in the North Atlantic as Lieutenant-Commander at Meeting (uncredited)
- Government Girl as Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
- The Spider Woman as Doorman (uncredited)
- The Leopard Man as Bartender (uncredited)
- No Time for Love as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Maisie as Courtroom Spectator (Uncredited)
- Margin for Error as Waiter
1942
- The Falcon Takes Over as Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)
- Lady for a Night as King's Club Worker (uncredited)
- Take a Letter, Darling as Waiter (uncredited)
- Brooklyn Orchid as Waiter at Party
- Maisie Gets Her Man as Detective Taking in Hixby (Uncredited)
- Tomorrow We Live
1941
- Citizen Kane as Secretary (uncredited)
- Ball of Fire as Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
- Pot o' Gold as Country Club Waiter (uncredited)
- Topper Returns as Second Butler (uncredited)
- Keep 'Em Flying as Waiter at Manila Club (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Baby
- It Started with Eve as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- The Feminine Touch as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- The Blonde from Singapore
- Niagara Falls as Waiter (uncredited)
1940
- Rebecca as Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
- No Time for Comedy as Waiter in Bar (uncredited)
- One Night in the Tropics as Joe, Club Roscoe Waiter (uncredited)
- A Chump at Oxford as Man in Unemployment Office (uncredited)
- Edison, the Man as Waiter
- City for Conquest as Waiter (uncredited)
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Waiter
- The Earl of Chicago as Turnkey (uncredited)
- Hired Wife as Waiter
- Captain Caution as English Sailor Who Pleads for Water
- City of Chance as Waiter
- Forty Little Mothers as Waiter
- Hit Parade of 1941 as Waiter
- Love Thy Neighbor as Nightclub Waiter
- Turnabout as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- Mexican Spitfire Out West as Waiter
- Curtain Call as Waiter Bringing Caviar
- The Showdown as Bald Bartender
1939
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Servant
- Girl from Rio as Condor Club Headwaiter
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case as Nightclub Waiter
- Stronger Than Desire as Waiter (uncredited)
- Honeymoon in Bali as Doorman (uncredited)
- That's Right – You're Wrong as Lawn Party Waiter (Uncredited)
- Zorro's Fighting Legion as Legionnaire
- Eternally Yours as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- Remember? as Waiter (uncredited)
1938
- In Old Chicago as Senate Waiter (uncredited)
- Gold Is Where You Find It as Butler at Party (uncredited)
- Test Pilot as Waiter (uncredited)
- The Rage of Paris as Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)
- The Big Broadcast of 1938 as Reporter (uncredited)
1937
- Wells Fargo as Headwaiter
- North of the Rio Grande as Bald Saloon Waiter
- The Firefly as Waiter (uncredited)
- Larceny on the Air as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- Dance Charlie Dance as Bored Spectator (uncredited)
1936
- San Francisco as Waiter at Chicken's Ball (uncredited)
- The Walking Dead as Juror (uncredited)
- Champagne Charlie as Extra as Ship Waiter
- Special Investigator as Nightclub Waiter
- Sing, Baby, Sing as Nightclub Waiter
- Sinner Take All as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- The Country Doctor as Waiter in Restaurant (uncredited)
1935
- A Night at the Opera as Stagehand (uncredited)
- The Gay Deception as Waiter (uncredited)
- Vagabond Lady as Waiter (uncredited)
- Diamond Jim as Waiter
- His Family Tree as Man at Mayoral Debate
- The Arizonian as Waiter in Opera House
- To Beat the Band as Waiter
- Go Into Your Dance as Casino de Paree Waiter
- The Old Homestead as Waiter (uncredited)
- Shadow of Doubt as Waiter
- The Misses Stooge as The Butler (uncredited)
1934
- Hollywood Mystery as Tony's Butler
- The Thin Man as Bartender (uncredited)
- Bachelor Bait as Waiter #2 (uncredited)
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back as Banquet Servant
- Long Lost Father as Waiter Getting Carl to Telephone
1933
- Only Yesterday as Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)
- Midnight Mary as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- Ex-Lady as Butler (uncredited)
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum as Waiter (uncredited)
- Big Time Or Bust as Hammond's Butler (uncredited)
1932
- Scarface as Waiter (uncredited)
- The Wet Parade as Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
- Merrily We Go to Hell as Waiter (uncredited)
- Pack Up Your Troubles as Butler (uncredited)
- Red-Headed Woman as Waiter at Gaerste Party (uncredited)
- Emma as Man (uncredited)
- Movie Crazy as Waiter (Uncredited)
- The Half-Naked Truth as Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
- Faithless as Croupier
1931
- Little Caesar as Waiter (uncredited)
- Five and Ten as Duncan (uncredited)
- Monkey Business as Waiter
- Men Call It Love as Brooks' Butler (uncredited)
- Smart Money as Nick's Chauffeur Bill (uncredited)
- The Phantom of Paris as Chéri-Bibi's Valet (uncredited)
- Dirigible as Sailor (uncredited)
- West of Broadway as Waiter (uncredited)
- The Sky Raiders as Henchman Conte
- Forgotten Women as Sleek's Butler
- The Guilty Generation as Victor - Mike's Butler
- Ladies' Man as Elevator starter
- Daybreak as Bartender
- The Road to Reno as Waiter
1930
- Anna Christie as Waiter at Coney Island (uncredited)
- Street of Chance as Waiter (uncredited)
- Anybody's Woman as Butler
- Reaching for the Moon as Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)
- Let Us Be Gay as Struthers - 2nd Butler (as William O'Brien)
- Sin Takes a Holiday as Waiter at Royal Club (uncredited)
- Strictly Unconventional as Footman
- Children of Pleasure as Party Butler #2 (uncredited)
- New Moon as Waiter at Ball
- Playboy of Paris as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
1929
- The Trespasser as Butler (uncredited)
1928
- Captain Swagger as Waiter
- The Mysterious Lady as Cafe Waiter Serving Wine (uncredited)
- A Woman of Affairs as Man Peering Into Room (uncredited)
- The Racket as Detective Frisking Nick
- Submarine as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- The Patsy as Waiter (uncredited)
- The Singing Fool as Waiter at Blackie Joe's (uncredited)
- While the City Sleeps as Apartment Tenant
1925
1921
- The Blot as College Student (uncredited)
1919
- The Delicious Little Devil as Waiter (uncredited)