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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 14, 1880
Died
April 29, 1966
Place of Birth
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Also Known As
- Louis O'Brien
Eugene O'Brien
3.0 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
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Stephen Winslow
The Romantic Age
1927
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Herbert Landis
Flames
1926
7.5
Brian Alden
Fine Manners
1926
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Kenyon Ruyland
Siege
1925
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Grenfall Lorry
Graustark
1925
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Major Seymour
Dangerous Innocence
1925
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Fred Garlan
Souls for Sables
1925
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Rex Herrington
The Only Woman
1924
5.5
John Carlton
Secrets
1924
Credits
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
1961
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The Romantic Age
as Stephen Winslow
1927
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Flames
as Herbert Landis
1926
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Fine Manners
as Brian Alden
1926
7.5
Siege
as Kenyon Ruyland
1925
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Graustark
as Grenfall Lorry
1925
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Dangerous Innocence
as Major Seymour
1925
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Souls for Sables
as Fred Garlan
1925
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The Only Woman
as Rex Herrington
1924
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Secrets
as John Carlton
1924
5.5
The Voice from the Minaret
as Andrew Fabian
1923
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John Smith
as John Smith
1922
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Channing of the Northwest
as Channing
1922
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Clay Dollars
as Bruce Edwards
1921
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Is Life Worth Living?
as Melville Marley
1921
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The Last Door
as The Magnet
1921
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Gilded Lies
as Keene McComb
1921
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Worlds Apart
as Hugh Ledyard
1921
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The Wonderful Chance
as Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
1920
5.4
A Fool and His Money
as John B. Smart
1920
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His Wife's Money
as Richard Flint
1920
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The Broken Melody
as Stewart Grant
1919
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Sealed Hearts
as Jack Prentiss
1919
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The Perfect Lover
as Brian Lazar
1919
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Fires of Faith
as Harry Hammond, a Broker
1919
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Come Out of the Kitchen
as Burton Crane
1919
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Little Miss Hoover
as Major Adam Baldwin
1918
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Under the Greenwood Tree
as Jack Hutton
1918
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The Spirit That Wins
as The Soldier
1918
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Her Only Way
as Joseph Marshall
1918
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The Safety Curtain
as Captain Merryon
1918
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A Romance of the Underworld
as Thomas McDonald
1918
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De Luxe Annie
as Jimmy Fitzpatrick
1918
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By Right of Purchase
as Chadwick Himes
1918
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The Ghosts of Yesterday
as Howard Marston
1918
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The Moth
as Cpt. Bridgey
1917
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Adam Ladd
1917
5.8
Poppy
as Sir Evelyn Carson
1917
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The Rise of Susan
as Clavering Gordon
1916
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The Chaperon
as Jim Ogden
1916
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The Return of Eve
as Adam
1916
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The Scarlet Woman
as Robert Blake
1916
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Poor Little Peppina
as Hugh Carroll
1916
5.2
Just Out of College
as Edward Worthington Swinger
1915
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The Moonstone
as Franklin Blake
1915
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