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