George O'Brien
Born: 1899-04-18 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 1985-09-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
George O'Brien (April 19, 1899 – September 4, 1985) was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the talkie era of the 1930s, best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. He also starred in East Side, West Side (1927), The Johnstown Floor (1926), and John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924). The day before his seventh birthday the Great Earthquake of 1906 hit San Francisco. He and his family nearly died and were homeless for months. He served in World War I and World War II.
Filmography
2023
- The Only Girl in the Orchestra as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
- Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch as (archive footage)
1964
- Cheyenne Autumn as Major Braden
1961
- The 10 from Texas as (archive footage)
1959
- Korea as Narrator
1954
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
1951
- Gold Raiders as George O'Brien
1949
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon as Maj. Mac Allshard
1948
- Fort Apache as Capt. Sam Collingwood
1947
- My Wild Irish Rose as 'Duke' Muldoon
1943
- December 7th as Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
1940
- Prairie Law as Brill Austin
- Bullet Code as Steve Holden
- Legion of the Lawless as Jeff Toland
- Stage to Chino as Dan Clark
- Triple Justice as Brad Henderson
1939
- Racketeers of the Range as Barney O'Dell
- Trouble in Sundown as Clint Bradford
- The Marshal Of Mesa City as Cliff Mason
- Arizona Legion as Boone Yeager
- Timber Stampede as Scott Baylor
- The Fighting Gringo as Wade Barton
1938
- Border G-Man as Jim Galloway
- Painted Desert as Bob McVey
- Gun Law as Tom O'Malley
- The Renegade Ranger as Captain Jack Steele
- Lawless Valley as Larry Rhodes
1937
- Park Avenue Logger as Grant Curran
- Hollywood Cowboy as Jeffery Carson
- Windjammer as Bruce Lane
1936
- Daniel Boone as Daniel Boone
- The Border Patrolman as Bob Wallace
- O'Malley of the Mounted as Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
1935
- The Cowboy Millionaire as Bob Walker
- Thunder Mountain as Kal Emerson
- When a Man's a Man as Larry Knight
- Whispering Smith Speaks as Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
- Hard Rock Harrigan as Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
1934
- Frontier Marshal as Michael Wyatt
- Ever Since Eve as Neil Rogers
- The Dude Ranger as Ernest 'Dude' Selby
1933
- The Last Trail as Tom Daley
- Life in the Raw as Jim Barry
- Smoke Lightning as Smoke Mason
1932
- The Rainbow Trail as John Shefford
- Robbers' Roost as Jim Wall
- The Gay Caballero as Ted Radcliffe
- The Golden West as David Lynch / Motano
- Mystery Ranch as Bob Sanborn
1931
- Fair Warning as Whistlin' Dan Barry
- Riders of the Purple Sage as Jim Lassiter
- Seas Beneath as Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley
- A Holy Terror as Tony Bard aka Woodbury
1930
- The Last of the Duanes as Buck Duane
- Hollywood Studios
- The Lone Star Ranger as Buck Duane
- Rough Romance as Billy West
1929
- Salute as Cadet John Randall
- True Heaven as Lieutenant Philip Gresson
- Masked Emotions as Bramdlet Dickery
1928
- Noah's Ark as Travis / Japheth
- Blindfold as Robert Kelly
- Honor Bound as John Oglegree
- Sharp Shooters as George
1927
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans as The Man (Anses)
- Is Zat So? as Ed 'Chick' Cowan
- Paid to Love as Crown Prince Michae
- East Side, West Side as John Breen
1926
- 3 Bad Men as Dan O'Malley
- The Johnstown Flood as Tom O'Day
- The Blue Eagle as George Darcy
- Fig Leaves as Adam Smith
- Rustlin' for Cupid as Bradley Blatchford
- The Silver Treasure as Nostromo
1925
- The Iron Horse as Davy Brandon
- The Dancers as Tony
- The Fighting Heart as Denny Bolton
- Thank You as Kenneth Jamieson
- Havoc as Dick Chappel
1924
- The Sea Hawk as Galley Slave (uncredited)
- The Man Who Came Back as Henry Potter
- Shadows of Paris as Louis
- The Painted Lady as Luther Smith
- The Roughneck as Jerry Delaney
1923
- Woman-Proof as Bill Burleigh
- The Ne'er-Do-Well as Clifford
1922
- Moran of the Lady Letty as Deck Hand
- The Ghost Breaker as One of the Ghosts (uncredited)
- Ebb Tide as Islander (uncredited)
- White Hands as Sailor