Acting

George O'Brien

Born 1899-04-18 · San Francisco, California, USA

Died 1985-09-04

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.

Credits

Newest first

The Only Girl in the Orchestra
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Hollywood
as Self (archive footage, uncredited)
1980
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
1976
Cheyenne Autumn
as Major Braden
1964
The 10 from Texas
as (archive footage)
1961
Korea
as Narrator
1959
Studio 57
1954
This Is Your Life
as Self
1952
Gold Raiders
as George O'Brien
1951
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
as Maj. Mac Allshard
1949
Fort Apache
as Capt. Sam Collingwood
1948
My Wild Irish Rose
as 'Duke' Muldoon
1947
December 7th
as Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
1943
Triple Justice
as Brad Henderson
1940
Stage to Chino
as Dan Clark
1940
Prairie Law
as Brill Austin
1940
Bullet Code
as Steve Holden
1940
Legion of the Lawless
as Jeff Toland
1940
The Marshal Of Mesa City
as Cliff Mason
1939
The Fighting Gringo
as Wade Barton
1939
Timber Stampede
as Scott Baylor
1939
Racketeers of the Range
as Barney O'Dell
1939
Trouble in Sundown
as Clint Bradford
1939
Arizona Legion
as Boone Yeager
1939
Lawless Valley
as Larry Rhodes
1938
The Renegade Ranger
as Captain Jack Steele
1938
Painted Desert
as Bob McVey
1938
Border G-Man
as Jim Galloway
1938
Gun Law
as Tom O'Malley
1938
Windjammer
as Bruce Lane
1937
Hollywood Cowboy
as Jeffery Carson
1937
Park Avenue Logger
as Grant Curran
1937
Daniel Boone
as Daniel Boone
1936
The Border Patrolman
as Bob Wallace
1936
O'Malley of the Mounted
as Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
1936
Thunder Mountain
as Kal Emerson
1935
Hard Rock Harrigan
as Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
1935
Whispering Smith Speaks
as Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
1935
The Cowboy Millionaire
as Bob Walker
1935
When a Man's a Man
as Larry Knight
1935
The Dude Ranger
as Ernest 'Dude' Selby
1934
Ever Since Eve
as Neil Rogers
1934
Frontier Marshal
as Michael Wyatt
1934
The Last Trail
as Tom Daley
1933
Life in the Raw
as Jim Barry
1933
Smoke Lightning
as Smoke Mason
1933
Robbers' Roost
as Jim Wall
1932
The Golden West
as David Lynch / Motano
1932
Mystery Ranch
as Bob Sanborn
1932
The Gay Caballero
as Ted Radcliffe
1932
The Rainbow Trail
as John Shefford
1932
Riders of the Purple Sage
as Jim Lassiter
1931
A Holy Terror
as Tony Bard aka Woodbury
1931
Fair Warning
as Whistlin' Dan Barry
1931
Seas Beneath
as Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley
1931
The Last of the Duanes
as Buck Duane
1930
Rough Romance
as Billy West
1930
The Lone Star Ranger
as Buck Duane
1930
Hollywood Studios
1930
Salute
as Cadet John Randall
1929
Masked Emotions
as Bramdlet Dickery
1929
True Heaven
as Lieutenant Philip Gresson
1929
Blindfold
as Robert Kelly
1928
Noah's Ark
as Travis / Japheth
1928
Honor Bound
as John Oglegree
1928
Sharp Shooters
as George
1928
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
as The Man (Anses)
1927
East Side, West Side
as John Breen
1927
Paid to Love
as Crown Prince Michae
1927
Is Zat So?
as Ed 'Chick' Cowan
1927
The Blue Eagle
as George Darcy
1926
3 Bad Men
as Dan O'Malley
1926
Fig Leaves
as Adam Smith
1926
The Silver Treasure
as Nostromo
1926
Rustlin' for Cupid
as Bradley Blatchford
1926
The Johnstown Flood
as Tom O'Day
1926
The Fighting Heart
as Denny Bolton
1925
Thank You
as Kenneth Jamieson
1925
The Iron Horse
as Davy Brandon
1925
Havoc
as Dick Chappel
1925