Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 14, 1880
Died
Apr 29, 1966
Place of Birth
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Credits
51 titles
Eugene O'Brien
Biography
From Wikipedia Eugene O'Brien (Birthname: Louis O'Brien b. November 14, 1880 in Boulder, Colorado – d. April 29, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) was a silent film star and stage actor. He studied medicine at the University of Colorado at Boulder but was keener on the stage than becoming a doctor. O'Brien switched to civil engineering under his family's guidance, but his heart was still set on becoming an actor. He moved to New York City and was "discovered" by theatrical impresario Charles Frohman who signed O'Brien to a three-year contract and put him in The Builder of Bridges, which opened on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on October 26, 1909. O'Brien made his name playing opposite Ethel Barrymore, in a revival of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play Trelawny of the 'Wells', which opened at the Empire Theatre on New Year's Day, 1911. O'Brien's first film, Essanay Film's The Lieutenant Governor, in which he had the starring role, played in Boulder's Curran Theatre in February 1915, giving his family its first opportunity to see him act.[3][4] World Film Corp. chief executive Lewis J. Selznick made O'Brien a screen star, putting him in an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. Subsequently he was leading man opposite some of the leading female stars of the day, including Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge and Gloria Swanson and became a silent screen matinée idol. He retired from acting when the talkies came in, making his last film, Faithless Lover, in 1928 at 47 years old. For his work on movies, he received a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Known For
Filmography
The Flag
Writer
The Food Guide to Love
Writer
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
The Faithless Lover
Austin Kent
The Romantic Age
Stephen Winslow
Flames
Herbert Landis
Fine Manners
Brian Alden
Siege
Kenyon Ruyland
Graustark
Grenfall Lorry
Dangerous Innocence
Major Seymour
Souls for Sables
Fred Garlan
The Only Woman
Rex Herrington
Secrets
John Carlton
The Voice from the Minaret
Andrew Fabian
John Smith
John Smith
Channing of the Northwest
Channing
The Prophet's Paradise
Howard Anderson
Clay Dollars
Bruce Edwards
Is Life Worth Living?
Melville Marley
The Last Door
The Magnet
Gilded Lies
Keene McComb
Worlds Apart
Hugh Ledyard
Broadway and Home
Michael Strange
The Wonderful Chance
Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
The Figurehead
Sheridan Dow
A Fool and His Money
John B. Smart
His Wife's Money
Richard Flint
The Broken Melody
Stewart Grant
Sealed Hearts
Jack Prentiss
The Perfect Lover
Brian Lazar
Fires of Faith
Harry Hammond, a Broker
Come Out of the Kitchen
Burton Crane
Little Miss Hoover
Major Adam Baldwin
Under the Greenwood Tree
Jack Hutton
The Spirit That Wins
The Soldier
Her Only Way
Joseph Marshall
The Safety Curtain
Captain Merryon
A Romance of the Underworld
Thomas McDonald
De Luxe Annie
Jimmy Fitzpatrick
By Right of Purchase
Chadwick Himes
The Ghosts of Yesterday
Howard Marston
The Moth
Cpt. Bridgey
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Adam Ladd
Poppy
Sir Evelyn Carson
The Rise of Susan
Clavering Gordon
The Chaperon
Jim Ogden
The Return of Eve
Adam
The Scarlet Woman
Robert Blake
Poor Little Peppina
Hugh Carroll
Just Out of College
Edward Worthington Swinger