Edmond O'Brien
Born: 1915-09-10 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1985-05-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
Edmond O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D.O.A. (1950). His many memorable films included The Killers, White Heat, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Wild Bunch. He also co-starred with Richard Rust in the NBC legal drama Sam Benedict, which aired during the 1962-1963 television season.
Filmography
2022
- Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies as Self - (archive footage)
2018
- The Other Side of the Wind as Pat Mullins
2010
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Oscar Muldoon (archive footage)
2005
- White Heat: Top of the World as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Los Angeles Plays Itself as Frank Bigelow in D.O.A (archive footage)
2000
1996
- The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage as Self (archive footage)
1982
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "White Heat") (archive footage)
1974
- 99 and 44/100% Dead as Uncle Frank Kelly
1973
- Police Story
- Lucky Luciano as Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger
- Isn't It Shocking? as Justin Oates
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco as Officer Gustav 'Gus' Charnovski, SFPD
- Temperatures Rising as Dr. Banning
- They Only Kill Their Masters as George
- Jigsaw as Det. Ed Burtelson
1971
- McMillan & Wife as Mr. Fontaine
- What's a Nice Girl Like You...? as Morton Stillman
- LA 2017 as John Bergman
- River of Mystery as R.J. Twitchell
1970
- The Intruders as Col. William Bodeen
- Dream No Evil as Timothy MacDonald
1969
- The Wild Bunch as Freddie Sykes
- The Love God? as Osborn Tremaine
1968
- The Name of the Game as John Bergman
- It Takes a Thief as Rocky McCauley
1967
- The High Chaparral as Morgan MacQuarie
- The Outsider as Marvin Bishop
- To Commit a Murder as Sphax (publisher)
- The Viscount as Ricco Barone
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Raymond Halder
- Fantastic Voyage as General Carter
- The Doomsday Flight as The Man
1965
- The Long, Hot Summer
- Sylvia as Oscar Stewart
- Synanon as Chuck Dederich
- The Further Adventures of Gallegher as Jefferson Crowley
- The Adventures of Gallegher as Jefferson Crowley
- The Adventures of Gallegher as Jefferson Crowley
1964
- Seven Days in May as Sen. Raymond Clark
- Rio Conchos as Pardee
- The Hanged Man as Arnie Seeger
1962
- The Virginian as Thomas Manstead
- Sam Benedict as Sam Benedict
- The Longest Day as Gen. Raymond D. Barton
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Dutton Peabody
- Birdman of Alcatraz as Tom Gaddis
- Moon Pilot as McClosky aka 'Mac'
1961
- Target: The Corruptors!
- Man-Trap ... (Director)
1960
- Johnny Midnight
- The Great Impostor as Capt. Glover - HMCS Cayuga
- The Last Voyage as Second Engineer Walsh
- The 3rd Voice as The Voice
1959
- Laramie
- Up Periscope as Commander Paul Stevenson
- The Ambitious One as Mike Buchanan
1958
- The World Was His Jury as David Carson
- Sing Boy Sing as Joseph Sharkey
1957
- Suspicion as Sgt. Miles Odeen
- The Big Land as Joe Jagger
- The Comedian as Al Preston
- Stopover Tokyo as George Underwood
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Russ Andrews
- Playhouse 90 as Al Preston
- 1984 as Winston Smith of the Outer Party
- The Girl Can't Help It as Marty 'Fats' Murdock
- The Rack as Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick
- D-Day the Sixth of June as Lt. Col. Alexander Timmer
- A Cry in the Night as Dan Taggart
- A Ticket for Thaddeus
1955
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Thaddeus Kubaczik
- Playwrights '56
- The Star and the Story as Ray Ericson
- Pete Kelly's Blues as Fran McCarg
- Dark Stranger as Ray Ericson
1954
- Climax! as Joel Flint
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Jefferson Crowley
- The George Gobel Show as Self
- The Barefoot Contessa as Oscar Muldoon
- The Shanghai Story as Daniel Maynard
- Shield for Murder as Det. Lt. Barney Nolan
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Julius Caesar as Casca
- The Bigamist as Harry Graham / Harrison Graham
- The Hitch-Hiker as Roy Collins
- Man in the Dark as Steve Rawley
- Cow Country as Ben Anthony
- China Venture as Capt. Matt Reardon
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre
- The Greatest Show on Earth as Midway Barker at End (uncredited)
- The Turning Point as John Conroy
- Denver and Rio Grande as Jim Vesser
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Grizzled Old Prospector
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Capt. Simpson
- Warpath as John Vickers
- The Redhead and the Cowboy as Maj. Dunn Jeffers (Union intelligence officer)
- Silver City as Larkin Moffat
- Two of a Kind as Michael "Lefty" Farrell
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Hal
- 711 Ocean Drive as Mal Granger
- Backfire as Steve Connolly
- Between Midnight and Dawn as Officer Dan Purvis
- The Admiral Was a Lady as Jimmy Stevens
1949
- White Heat as Vic Pardo
- D.O.A. as Frank Bigelow
- Under Capricorn as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Task Force as Radio Announcing Pearl Harbor Attack (voice) (uncredited)
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- An Act of Murder as David Douglas
- Another Part of the Forest as Benjamin Hubbard
- For the Love of Mary as Lt. Tom Farrington
- Fighter Squadron as Maj. Ed Hardin
1947
- A Double Life as Bill Friend
- The Web as Bob Regan
- Something in the Wind as Lt. Tom Farrington
1946
- The Killers as Jim Reardon
1944
- Winged Victory as Irving Miller
1943
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday as Tom Holliday
1942
- Powder Town as J. Quincy 'Penji' Pennant
- Obliging Young Lady as 'Red' Reddy, aka Professor Stanley
1941
- Parachute Battalion as William Mayberry Burke
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Stephen Herrick
1939
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Gringoire