Pat O'Brien
Born: 1899-11-10 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Died: 1983-10-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
Pat O'Brien (born William Joseph Patrick O'Brien) was an American stage, screen, radio, and television actor. He was a star during the first several years of his film career, the height of his popularity being during the 1930s and 1940s.
Filmography
2013
- Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored as Self (archive footage)
2008
- You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say? as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Dill Scallion as Self
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1981
- Ragtime as Delmas
- James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy as Self
1980
- Scout's Honor as Mr. Caboose
1978
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- The End as Ben Lawson
1977
- Billy Jack Goes to Washington as President of the Senate
1976
- Kiss Me... Kill Me as Jimmy, the morgue attendant
1975
- The Sky's the Limit as Abner Therman
1974
1973
- Amanda Fallon as Emory
1972
- The Adventures of Nick Carter as Hallelujah Harry
- Banyon
- Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol as Sgt. McGll
1969
- The Over the Hill Gang as Captain Oren Hayes
1965
- Branded
- Town Tamer as Judge Murcott
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Lt. John Curwood
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Virginian as J. Jimerson Jones
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Going My Way
- The Road to Hong Kong as Chinese Restaurateur (uncredited)
- Babe Ruth Story: That Ever Livin' Babe as Narrator
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
1960
- Harrigan and Son
- The Best of the Post as Mike Breen
1959
- Some Like It Hot as Detective Mulligan
- I Captured the King of the Leprechauns as Self
1958
- Kraft Music Hall as Self
- The Last Hurrah as John Gorman
1957
- Kill Me Tomorrow as Bart Crosbie
- Invitation to a Gunfighter as Sheriff Kyle Bickford
1956
- Telephone Time
- Inside Detroit as Gus Linden
1954
- Climax! as Police Lieutenant Moore
- Jubilee Trail as Ernest 'Texas' Conway
- Ring of Fear as Frank Wallace
1953
- General Electric Theater as Major Irish
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- The Ford Television Theatre as Lt. V. Keever
- Okinawa as Lt. Cmdr. Hale
1951
- The People Against O'Hara as Det. Vincent Ricks
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Criminal Lawyer as James 'Jimmy' Regan
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- The Fireball as Father O'Hara
- Lux Video Theatre as Tim Larkin
- Johnny One-Eye as Martin Martin
1949
- A Dangerous Profession as Joe Farley
1948
- Studio One as Mike Waterson
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Boy with Green Hair as Gramp Fry
- Fighting Father Dunne as Father Peter J. Dunne
- Ford Theatre
1947
- Riff-Raff as Dan Hammer
- Blow-Ups of 1947 as Self
1946
- Crack-Up as George Steele
- Perilous Holiday as Patrick Nevil
1945
- Man Alive as Michael O'Flaherty 'Speed' McBride
- Having Wonderful Crime as Michael J. Malone
1944
- Marine Raiders as Maj. Steve Lockhart
- Secret Command as Sam Gallagher
1943
- Bombardier as Chick Davis
- His Butler's Sister as Martin Murphy
- The Iron Major as Francis William 'Frank' / 'Cav' Cavanaugh
1942
- Broadway as Dan McCorn
- The Navy Comes Through as Chief Michael 'Mike' Mallory
- Two Yanks in Trinidad as Tim Reardon
- Flight Lieutenant as Samuel J. 'Sam' Doyle
1941
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1940
- Flowing Gold as Ian 'Hap' O'Connor
- The Fighting 69th as Father Duffy
- 'Til We Meet Again as Steve Burke
- Knute Rockne All American as Knute Rockne
- Escape to Glory as Mike Farrough
- Breakdowns of 1940 as Self
- Torrid Zone as Steve Case
- Castle on the Hudson as Warden Walter Long
1939
- Indianapolis Speedway as Joe Greer
- Slightly Honorable as John Webb
- Off the Record as Thomas "Breezy" Elliott
- The Kid from Kokomo as William Jennings 'Billy / 'Square Shooting Murph' Murphy
- Breakdowns of 1939 as Self
- The Night of Nights as Dan O'Farrell
1938
- Angels with Dirty Faces as Jerry Connolly
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Pat O'Brien (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Garden of the Moon as John Quinn
- Out Where the Stars Begin as Pat O'Brien
- Women Are Like That as Bill Landin
- Swingtime in the Movies as Himself (uncredited)
- Boy Meets Girl as J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson
- Cowboy from Brooklyn as Roy Chadwick
1937
- San Quentin as Capt. Stephen Jameson
- Slim as Red Blayd
- Submarine D-1 as Butch Rogers
- The Great O'Malley as James Aloysius 'Jim' / 'Jimmy' O'Malley
- Breakdowns of 1937 as Self
- Back in Circulation as Bill Morgan
1936
- Ceiling Zero as Jake L. Lee
- China Clipper as Dave Logan
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
- Public Enemy's Wife as Lee Laird
- I Married a Doctor as Dr. William P. Kennicott
1935
- In Caliente as Larry MacArthur
- Page Miss Glory as Click Wiley
- Things You Never See on the Screen as Self
- A Dream Comes True as Himself (uncredited)
- Devil Dogs of the Air as Lieut. Brannigan
- The Irish in Us as Pat O'Hara
- Stars Over Broadway as Al McGillevray
- Oil for the Lamps of China as Stephen Chase
- A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio as Himself (uncredited)
1934
- Flirtation Walk as "Scrapper" Thornhhill
- Twenty Million Sweethearts as Rush Blake
- Screen Snapshots No. 11 as Himself
- I've Got Your Number as Terry Riley
- Here Comes the Navy as Biff Martin
- Gambling Lady as Charlie Lang
- The Personality Kid as Ritzy
- Studio Highlights as Self (archive footage)
- I Sell Anything as "Spot Cash" Cutler
1933
- Bombshell as Jim Brogan
- Destination Unknown as Matt Brennan
- College Coach as Coach Gore
- Bureau of Missing Persons as Detective Butch Saunders
- Laughter in Hell as Barney Slaney
- The World Gone Mad as Andy Terrell
1932
- Air Mail as Duke Talbot
- Virtue as Jimmy Doyle
- American Madness as Matt Brown
- Hell's House as Matt Kelly
- The Strange Case of Clara Deane as Frank Deane
- Flaming Gold as Ben Lear
- The Final Edition as Sam Bradshaw
- Scandal for Sale as Waddell
- Hollywood Speaks as Jimmy Reed
1931
- Personal Maid as Peter Shea
- Consolation Marriage as Steve Porter
- The Front Page as Hildy Johnson
- Flying High as Sport Wardell
- Honor Among Lovers as Conroy (uncredited)
- Crimes Square as Marty
1930
- My Mistake
- Compliments of the Season as Police Detective (uncredited)
- The Voice of Hollywood as Self/Host