George O'Brien
Acting
🎂 1899-04-18
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.
Cast credits(89)
Self
1952
1954
The Man (Anses)
1927
Capt. Sam Collingwood
1948
Maj. Mac Allshard
1949
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
1943
Major Braden
1964
Travis / Japheth
1928
Daniel Boone
1936
Davy Brandon
1925
John Shefford
1932
Galley Slave (uncredited)
1924
Captain Jack Steele
1938
Cadet John Randall
1929
Crown Prince Michae
1927
Kenneth Jamieson
1925
Tony
1925
Tom Daley
1933
'Duke' Muldoon
1947
Ted Radcliffe
1932
Dan O'Malley
1926
George
1928
Dan Clark
1940
Bob Sanborn
1932
Michael Wyatt
1934
Brad Henderson
1940
Islander
1922
Barney O'Dell
1939
Smoke Mason
1933
Bramdlet Dickery
1929
Whistlin' Dan Barry
1931
(archive footage)
1961
George Darcy
1926
Larry Knight
1935
Bob McVey
1938
Jerry Delaney
1924
(archive footage)
1976
Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
1935
Grant Curran
1937
Louis
1924
Henry Potter
1924
Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley
1931
Jeff Toland
1940
Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
1935
Clint Bradford
1939
Jim Lassiter
1931
Dick Chappel
1925
Deck Hand
1922
David Lynch / Motano
1932
Brill Austin
1940
Bruce Lane
1937
Buck Duane
1930
Larry Rhodes
1938
Clifford
1923
Tom O'Day
1926
Jim Barry
1933
Kal Emerson
1935
Wade Barton
1939
Bob Walker
1935
George O'Brien
1951
Buck Duane
1930
Steve Holden
1940
John Oglegree
1928
Scott Baylor
1939
Adam Smith
1926
John Breen
1927
Neil Rogers
1934
Tom O'Malley
1938
Tony Bard aka Woodbury
1931
One of the Ghosts (uncredited)
1922
Ernest 'Dude' Selby
1934
Cliff Mason
1939
Jim Wall
1932
Bob Wallace
1936
Jim Galloway
1938
Jeffery Carson
1937
Denny Bolton
1925
Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
1936
Bill Burleigh
1923
Lieutenant Philip Gresson
1929
Billy West
1930
Nostromo
1926
Robert Kelly
1928
Ed 'Chick' Cowan
1927
Boone Yeager
1939
Bradley Blatchford
1926
Luther Smith
1924
Narrator
1959