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