Birthday
1899/04/18
Day of death
1985/09/04 (86 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also know as
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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.
(1927) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
as The Man (Anses)
(1926) 3 Bad Men
as Dan O'Malley
(1927) Is Zat So?
as Ed 'Chick' Cowan
(1949) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
as Maj. Mac Allshard
(1964) Cheyenne Autumn
as Major Braden
(1922) Ebb Tide
as Islander
(1948) Fort Apache
as Capt. Sam Collingwood
(1932) The Gay Caballero
as Ted Radcliffe
(1934) The Dude Ranger
as Ernest 'Dude' Selby
(1925) The Iron Horse
as Davy Brandon
(1943) December 7th
as Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
(1936) Daniel Boone
as Daniel Boone
(1928) Noah's Ark
as Travis / Japheth
(1931) A Holy Terror
as Tony Bard aka Woodbury
(1927) Paid to Love
as Crown Prince Michae
(1929) Salute
as Cadet John Randall
(1935) The Cowboy Millionaire
as Bob Walker
(1938) The Renegade Ranger
as Captain Jack Steele
(1931) Seas Beneath
as Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley
(1926) Fig Leaves
as Adam Smith
(1926) The Blue Eagle
as George Darcy
(1935) When a Man's a Man
as Larry Knight
(1927) East Side, West Side
as John Breen
(1959) Korea
as Narrator
(1936) The Border Patrolman
as Bob Wallace
(1940) Bullet Code
as Steve Holden
(1951) Gold Raiders
as George O'Brien
(1976) Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
(1937) Hollywood Cowboy
as Jeffery Carson
(1937) Park Avenue Logger
as Grant Curran
(1937) Windjammer
as Bruce Lane
(1932) Mystery Ranch
as Bob Sanborn
(1930) Rough Romance
as Billy West
(1929) True Heaven
as Lieutenant Philip Gresson
(1926) The Johnstown Flood
as Tom O'Day
(1928) Sharp Shooters
as George
(1947) My Wild Irish Rose
as 'Duke' Muldoon
(1924) The Sea Hawk
as Galley Slave (uncredited)
(1930) The Last of the Duanes
as Buck Duane
(1922) Moran of the Lady Letty
as Deck Hand
(1932) The Golden West
as David Lynch / Motano
(1929) Masked Emotions
as Bramdlet Dickery
(1933) Life in the Raw
as Jim Barry
(1940) Triple Justice
as Brad Henderson
(1939) Arizona Legion
as Boone Yeager
(1934) Ever Since Eve
as Neil Rogers
(1939) The Marshal Of Mesa City
as Cliff Mason
(1938) Painted Desert
as Bob McVey
(1936) O'Malley of the Mounted
as Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
(1938) Border G-Man
as Jim Galloway
(1935) Whispering Smith Speaks
as Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
(1939) Timber Stampede
as Scott Baylor
(1935) Thunder Mountain
as Kal Emerson
(1931) Riders of the Purple Sage
as Jim Lassiter
(1940) Legion of the Lawless
as Jeff Toland
(1935) Hard Rock Harrigan
as Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
(1938) Lawless Valley
as Larry Rhodes
(1939) Trouble in Sundown
as Clint Bradford
(1934) Frontier Marshal
as Michael Wyatt
(1925) Havoc
as Dick Chappel
(1924) Shadows of Paris
as Louis
(1926) Rustlin' for Cupid
as Bradley Blatchford
(1926) The Silver Treasure
as Nostromo
(1928) Blindfold
as Robert Kelly
(1922) The Ghost Breaker
as One of the Ghosts (uncredited)
(1925) The Fighting Heart
as Denny Bolton
(1925) Thank You
as Kenneth Jamieson
(1938) Gun Law
as Tom O'Malley
(1925) The Dancers
as Tony
(1933) The Last Trail
as Tom Daley
(1932) Robbers' Roost
as Jim Wall
(1939) Racketeers of the Range
as Barney O'Dell
(1940) Stage to Chino
as Dan Clark
(1923) The Ne'er-Do-Well
as Clifford
(1923) Woman-Proof
as Bill Burleigh
(1930) The Lone Star Ranger
as Buck Duane
(1931) Fair Warning
as Whistlin' Dan Barry
(1939) The Fighting Gringo
as Wade Barton
(1961) The 10 from Texas
as (archive footage)
(1924) The Roughneck
as Jerry Delaney
(1933) Smoke Lightning
as Smoke Mason
(1940) Prairie Law
as Brill Austin
(1928) Honor Bound
as John Oglegree
(1932) The Rainbow Trail
as John Shefford
(1924) The Man Who Came Back
as Henry Potter
(1924) The Painted Lady
as Luther Smith
(2023) The Only Girl in the Orchestra
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1952) This Is Your Life
as Self
(1954) Studio 57
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