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