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