Acting

George O'Brien

1899-04-18 · San Francisco, California, USA

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.

Movies & TV shows

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This Is Your Life

1952 · Self

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Studio 57

1954

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949 · Maj. Mac Allshard

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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927 · The Man (Anses)

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Fort Apache

1948 · Capt. Sam Collingwood

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Cheyenne Autumn

1964 · Major Braden

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Hollywood Studios

1930

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Masked Emotions

1929 · Bramdlet Dickery

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True Heaven

1929 · Lieutenant Philip Gresson

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The Only Girl in the Orchestra

2023 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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3 Bad Men

1926 · Dan O'Malley

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Korea

1959 · Narrator

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Sharp Shooters

1928 · George

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White Hands

1922 · Sailor

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Salute

1929 · Cadet John Randall

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Honor Bound

1928 · John Oglegree

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The Iron Horse

1925 · Davy Brandon

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Noah's Ark

1928 · Travis / Japheth

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Gold Raiders

1951 · George O'Brien

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The Dude Ranger

1934 · Ernest 'Dude' Selby

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Park Avenue Logger

1937 · Grant Curran

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December 7th

1943 · Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)

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The Ghost Breaker

1922 · One of the Ghosts (uncredited)

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Moran of the Lady Letty

1922 · Deck Hand

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A Holy Terror

1931 · Tony Bard aka Woodbury

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My Wild Irish Rose

1947 · 'Duke' Muldoon

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The Cowboy Millionaire

1935 · Bob Walker

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The Painted Lady

1924 · Luther Smith

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The Lone Star Ranger

1930 · Buck Duane

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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

1976 · (archive footage)

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Fig Leaves

1926 · Adam Smith

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The Last of the Duanes

1930 · Buck Duane

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Daniel Boone

1936 · Daniel Boone

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Legion of the Lawless

1940 · Jeff Toland

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Stage to Chino

1940 · Dan Clark

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The Silver Treasure

1926 · Nostromo

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The Marshal Of Mesa City

1939 · Cliff Mason

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Paid to Love

1927 · Crown Prince Michae

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The Johnstown Flood

1926 · Tom O'Day

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The Roughneck

1924 · Jerry Delaney

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Woman-Proof

1923 · Bill Burleigh

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The Gay Caballero

1932 · Ted Radcliffe

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Seas Beneath

1931 · Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley

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The Dancers

1925 · Tony

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Bullet Code

1940 · Steve Holden

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Frontier Marshal

1934 · Michael Wyatt

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Smoke Lightning

1933 · Smoke Mason

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Trouble in Sundown

1939 · Clint Bradford

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East Side, West Side

1927 · John Breen

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Timber Stampede

1939 · Scott Baylor

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Racketeers of the Range

1939 · Barney O'Dell

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The Renegade Ranger

1938 · Captain Jack Steele

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Triple Justice

1940 · Brad Henderson

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Is Zat So?

1927 · Ed 'Chick' Cowan

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Havoc

1925 · Dick Chappel

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Ebb Tide

1922 · Islander (uncredited)

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Prairie Law

1940 · Brill Austin

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The Fighting Heart

1925 · Denny Bolton

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The Ne'er-Do-Well

1923 · Clifford

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The Sea Hawk

1924 · Galley Slave (uncredited)

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Arizona Legion

1939 · Boone Yeager

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Thunder Mountain

1935 · Kal Emerson

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Hollywood Cowboy

1937 · Jeffery Carson

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Hard Rock Harrigan

1935 · Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan

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Riders of the Purple Sage

1931 · Jim Lassiter

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Robbers' Roost

1932 · Jim Wall

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The Rainbow Trail

1932 · John Shefford

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O'Malley of the Mounted

1936 · Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard

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Windjammer

1937 · Bruce Lane

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The Blue Eagle

1926 · George Darcy

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Rough Romance

1930 · Billy West

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Blindfold

1928 · Robert Kelly

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Fair Warning

1931 · Whistlin' Dan Barry

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The Golden West

1932 · David Lynch / Motano

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The Man Who Came Back

1924 · Henry Potter

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Lawless Valley

1938 · Larry Rhodes

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Whispering Smith Speaks

1935 · Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith

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Ever Since Eve

1934 · Neil Rogers

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When a Man's a Man

1935 · Larry Knight

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Thank You

1925 · Kenneth Jamieson

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