George O'Brien
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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...
Known For
Filmography
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
as (archive footage)
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
as Major Braden
The 10 from Texas
1961
as (archive footage)
Korea
1959
as Narrator
Studio 57
1954
This Is Your Life
1952
as Self
Gold Raiders
1951
as George O'Brien
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949
as Maj. Mac Allshard
Fort Apache
1948
as Capt. Sam Collingwood
My Wild Irish Rose
1947
as 'Duke' Muldoon
December 7th
1943
as Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
Bullet Code
1940
as Steve Holden
Triple Justice
1940
as Brad Henderson
Legion of the Lawless
1940
as Jeff Toland
Stage to Chino
1940
as Dan Clark
Prairie Law
1940
as Brill Austin
Arizona Legion
1939
as Boone Yeager
The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939
as Cliff Mason
Timber Stampede
1939
as Scott Baylor
Trouble in Sundown
1939
as Clint Bradford
Racketeers of the Range
1939
as Barney O'Dell
The Fighting Gringo
1939
as Wade Barton
The Renegade Ranger
1938
as Captain Jack Steele
Painted Desert
1938
as Bob McVey
Border G-Man
1938
as Jim Galloway
Lawless Valley
1938
as Larry Rhodes
Gun Law
1938
as Tom O'Malley
Hollywood Cowboy
1937
as Jeffery Carson
Park Avenue Logger
1937
as Grant Curran
Windjammer
1937
as Bruce Lane
Daniel Boone
1936
as Daniel Boone
The Border Patrolman
1936
as Bob Wallace
O'Malley of the Mounted
1936
as Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
The Cowboy Millionaire
1935
as Bob Walker
When a Man's a Man
1935
as Larry Knight
Whispering Smith Speaks
1935
as Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
Thunder Mountain
1935
as Kal Emerson
Hard Rock Harrigan
1935
as Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
The Dude Ranger
1934
as Ernest 'Dude' Selby
Ever Since Eve
1934
as Neil Rogers
Frontier Marshal
1934
as Michael Wyatt
Life in the Raw
1933
as Jim Barry
The Last Trail
1933
as Tom Daley
Smoke Lightning
1933
as Smoke Mason
The Gay Caballero
1932
as Ted Radcliffe
Mystery Ranch
1932
as Bob Sanborn
The Golden West
1932
as David Lynch / Motano
Robbers' Roost
1932
as Jim Wall
The Rainbow Trail
1932
as John Shefford
A Holy Terror
1931
as Tony Bard aka Woodbury
Seas Beneath
1931
as Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley
Riders of the Purple Sage
1931
as Jim Lassiter
Fair Warning
1931
as Whistlin' Dan Barry
Rough Romance
1930
as Billy West
The Last of the Duanes
1930
as Buck Duane
The Lone Star Ranger
1930
as Buck Duane
Hollywood Studios
1930
Salute
1929
as Cadet John Randall
True Heaven
1929
as Lieutenant Philip Gresson
Masked Emotions
1929
as Bramdlet Dickery
Noah's Ark
1928
as Travis / Japheth
Sharp Shooters
1928
as George
Blindfold
1928
as Robert Kelly
Honor Bound
1928
as John Oglegree
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927
as The Man (Anses)
Is Zat So?
1927
as Ed 'Chick' Cowan
Paid to Love
1927
as Crown Prince Michae
East Side, West Side
1927
as John Breen
3 Bad Men
1926
as Dan O'Malley
Fig Leaves
1926
as Adam Smith
The Blue Eagle
1926
as George Darcy
The Johnstown Flood
1926
as Tom O'Day
Rustlin' for Cupid
1926
as Bradley Blatchford
The Silver Treasure
1926
as Nostromo
The Iron Horse
1925
as Davy Brandon
Havoc
1925
as Dick Chappel
The Fighting Heart
1925
as Denny Bolton
Thank You
1925
as Kenneth Jamieson
The Dancers
1925
as Tony
The Sea Hawk
1924
as Galley Slave (uncredited)
Shadows of Paris
1924
as Louis
The Roughneck
1924
as Jerry Delaney
The Man Who Came Back
1924
as Henry Potter
The Painted Lady
1924
as Luther Smith
The Ne'er-Do-Well
1923
as Clifford
Woman-Proof
1923
as Bill Burleigh
Ebb Tide
1922
as Islander (uncredited)
Moran of the Lady Letty
1922
as Deck Hand
The Ghost Breaker
1922
as One of the Ghosts (uncredited)
White Hands
1922
as Sailor