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Birthday: Nov 14, 1880
Place of Birth: Boulder, Colorado, USA

Eugene O'Brien

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.

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