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