Eugene O'Brien
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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
Credits
His Wife's Money (1920)
as Richard Flint
The Figurehead (1920)
as Sheridan Dow
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
as Adam Ladd
The Faithless Lover (1928)
as Austin Kent
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
as Self (archive footage)
Come Out of the Kitchen (1919)
as Burton Crane
Broadway and Home (1920)
as Michael Strange
The Wonderful Chance (1920)
as Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
The Prophet's Paradise (1922)
as Howard Anderson
The Perfect Lover (1919)
as Brian Lazar
Poor Little Peppina (1916)
as Hugh Carroll
Dangerous Innocence (1925)
as Major Seymour
Is Life Worth Living? (1921)
as Melville Marley
Fine Manners (1926)
as Brian Alden
The Safety Curtain (1918)
as Captain Merryon
Secrets (1924)
as John Carlton
Clay Dollars (1921)
as Bruce Edwards
Fires of Faith (1919)
as Harry Hammond, a Broker
A Fool and His Money (1920)
as John B. Smart
The Voice from the Minaret (1923)
as Andrew Fabian
De Luxe Annie (1918)
as Jimmy Fitzpatrick
Her Only Way (1918)
as Joseph Marshall
Just Out of College (1915)
as Edward Worthington Swinger
Channing of the Northwest (1922)
as Channing
The Moth (1917)
as Cpt. Bridgey
The Ghosts of Yesterday (1918)
as Howard Marston
Little Miss Hoover (1918)
as Major Adam Baldwin
By Right of Purchase (1918)
as Chadwick Himes
John Smith (1922)
as John Smith
Graustark (1925)
as Grenfall Lorry
The Only Woman (1924)
as Rex Herrington
Flames (1926)
as Herbert Landis
A Romance of the Underworld (1918)
as Thomas McDonald
The Moonstone (1915)
as Franklin Blake
The Rise of Susan (1916)
as Clavering Gordon
Gilded Lies (1921)
as Keene McComb
Sealed Hearts (1919)
as Jack Prentiss
The Chaperon (1916)
as Jim Ogden
The Last Door (1921)
as The Magnet
Worlds Apart (1921)
as Hugh Ledyard
Siege (1925)
as Kenyon Ruyland
The Broken Melody (1919)
as Stewart Grant
Under the Greenwood Tree (1918)
as Jack Hutton
Poppy (1917)
as Sir Evelyn Carson
The Scarlet Woman (1916)
as Robert Blake
The Romantic Age (1927)
as Stephen Winslow
The Return of Eve (1916)
as Adam
Souls for Sables (1925)
as Fred Garlan
The Spirit That Wins (1918)
as The Soldier