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