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