Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 18, 1899
Died
Sep 04, 1985
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Credits
91 titles
George O'Brien
Biography
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
Filmography
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
(archive footage)
Cheyenne Autumn
Major Braden
The 10 from Texas
(archive footage)
Korea
Narrator
Studio 57
This Is Your Life
Self
Gold Raiders
George O'Brien
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Maj. Mac Allshard
Fort Apache
Capt. Sam Collingwood
My Wild Irish Rose
'Duke' Muldoon
December 7th
Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
Triple Justice
Brad Henderson
Stage to Chino
Dan Clark
Prairie Law
Brill Austin
Bullet Code
Steve Holden
Legion of the Lawless
Jeff Toland
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Cliff Mason
The Fighting Gringo
Wade Barton
Timber Stampede
Scott Baylor
Racketeers of the Range
Barney O'Dell
Trouble in Sundown
Clint Bradford
Arizona Legion
Boone Yeager
Lawless Valley
Larry Rhodes
The Renegade Ranger
Captain Jack Steele
Painted Desert
Bob McVey
Border G-Man
Jim Galloway
Gun Law
Tom O'Malley
Windjammer
Bruce Lane
Hollywood Cowboy
Jeffery Carson
Park Avenue Logger
Grant Curran
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
The Border Patrolman
Bob Wallace
O'Malley of the Mounted
Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
Thunder Mountain
Kal Emerson
Hard Rock Harrigan
Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
Whispering Smith Speaks
Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
The Cowboy Millionaire
Bob Walker
When a Man's a Man
Larry Knight
The Dude Ranger
Ernest 'Dude' Selby
Ever Since Eve
Neil Rogers
Frontier Marshal
Michael Wyatt
The Last Trail
Tom Daley
Life in the Raw
Jim Barry
Smoke Lightning
Smoke Mason
Robbers' Roost
Jim Wall
The Golden West
David Lynch / Motano
Mystery Ranch
Bob Sanborn
The Gay Caballero
Ted Radcliffe
The Rainbow Trail
John Shefford