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