George O'Brien
Acting
🎂 1899-04-18
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.
Cast credits(89)
1954
Self
1952
Capt. Sam Collingwood
1948
Tom O'Malley
1938
Boone Yeager
1939
John Shefford
1932
Maj. Mac Allshard
1949
Travis / Japheth
1928
Tom Daley
1933
Bob McVey
1938
Major Braden
1964
Clint Bradford
1939
Bob Sanborn
1932
The Man (Anses)
1927
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
1936
Jeff Toland
1940
Grant Curran
1937
Whistlin' Dan Barry
1931
David Lynch / Motano
1932
'Duke' Muldoon
1947
(archive footage)
1961
Galley Slave (uncredited)
1924
Dan Clark
1940
Brill Austin
1940
Louis
1924
Billy West
1930
Cadet John Randall
1929
Neil Rogers
1934
Buck Duane
1930
(archive footage)
1976
Nostromo
1926
Wade Barton
1939
Lieutenant Philip Gresson
1929
Adam Smith
1926
Tom O'Day
1926
Michael Wyatt
1934
Brad Henderson
1940
Jim Wall
1932
Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
1935
George O'Brien
1951
George Darcy
1926
Ted Radcliffe
1932
Scott Baylor
1939
Captain Jack Steele
1938
Jim Galloway
1938
Cliff Mason
1939
Davy Brandon
1925
Buck Duane
1930
Jim Barry
1933
George
1928
Daniel Boone
1936
Kal Emerson
1935
Islander
1922
Bill Burleigh
1923
Bob Walker
1935
Dick Chappel
1925
Bruce Lane
1937
Jeffery Carson
1937
Larry Rhodes
1938
Ernest 'Dude' Selby
1934
Ed 'Chick' Cowan
1927
Smoke Mason
1933
Crown Prince Michae
1927
Robert Kelly
1928
Denny Bolton
1925
Tony Bard aka Woodbury
1931
Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
1935
Larry Knight
1935
Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
1943
Bob Wallace
1936
Dan O'Malley
1926
Bramdlet Dickery
1929
Deck Hand
1922
Tony
1925
Steve Holden
1940
Barney O'Dell
1939
Narrator
1959
John Oglegree
1928
Henry Potter
1924
Jerry Delaney
1924
Jim Lassiter
1931
One of the Ghosts (uncredited)
1922
Clifford
1923
Kenneth Jamieson
1925
Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley
1931
Luther Smith
1924
John Breen
1927
Bradley Blatchford
1926