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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 18, 1899
Died
September 4, 1985
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
George O'Brien
1.4 Popularity
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. He served in World War I and World War II.
Known For
6.6
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
2023
9.0
(archive footage)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
6.7
Major Braden
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
0.0
(archive footage)
The 10 from Texas
1961
🎬
6.0
Narrator
Korea
1959
0.0
Studio 57
1954
6.4
Self
This Is Your Life
1952
5.7
George O'Brien
Gold Raiders
1951
6.9
Maj. Mac Allshard
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949
7.0
Capt. Sam Collingwood
Fort Apache
1948
Credits
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
6.6
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
1976
9.0
Cheyenne Autumn
as Major Braden
1964
6.7
The 10 from Texas
as (archive footage)
1961
0.0
🎬
Korea
as Narrator
1959
6.0
Studio 57
1954
0.0
This Is Your Life
as Self
1952
6.4
Gold Raiders
as George O'Brien
1951
5.7
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
as Maj. Mac Allshard
1949
6.9
Fort Apache
as Capt. Sam Collingwood
1948
7.0
My Wild Irish Rose
as 'Duke' Muldoon
1947
6.0
December 7th
as Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
1943
5.8
Triple Justice
as Brad Henderson
1940
6.0
Stage to Chino
as Dan Clark
1940
5.4
Prairie Law
as Brill Austin
1940
5.5
Bullet Code
as Steve Holden
1940
5.6
Legion of the Lawless
as Jeff Toland
1940
5.4
The Marshal Of Mesa City
as Cliff Mason
1939
8.0
The Fighting Gringo
as Wade Barton
1939
6.0
Timber Stampede
as Scott Baylor
1939
0.0
Racketeers of the Range
as Barney O'Dell
1939
6.6
Trouble in Sundown
as Clint Bradford
1939
0.0
Arizona Legion
as Boone Yeager
1939
5.0
Lawless Valley
as Larry Rhodes
1938
5.0
The Renegade Ranger
as Captain Jack Steele
1938
5.2
Painted Desert
as Bob McVey
1938
5.8
Border G-Man
as Jim Galloway
1938
5.0
Gun Law
as Tom O'Malley
1938
4.5
Windjammer
as Bruce Lane
1937
5.0
Hollywood Cowboy
as Jeffery Carson
1937
5.0
Park Avenue Logger
as Grant Curran
1937
6.0
Daniel Boone
as Daniel Boone
1936
4.6
The Border Patrolman
as Bob Wallace
1936
5.8
O'Malley of the Mounted
as Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
1936
0.0
Thunder Mountain
as Kal Emerson
1935
0.0
🎬
Hard Rock Harrigan
as Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
1935
3.0
Whispering Smith Speaks
as Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
1935
0.0
The Cowboy Millionaire
as Bob Walker
1935
6.0
When a Man's a Man
as Larry Knight
1935
4.3
The Dude Ranger
as Ernest 'Dude' Selby
1934
5.8
Ever Since Eve
as Neil Rogers
1934
0.0
Frontier Marshal
as Michael Wyatt
1934
5.5
The Last Trail
as Tom Daley
1933
0.0
Life in the Raw
as Jim Barry
1933
0.0
Smoke Lightning
as Smoke Mason
1933
3.5
Robbers' Roost
as Jim Wall
1932
5.5
The Golden West
as David Lynch / Motano
1932
4.0
Mystery Ranch
as Bob Sanborn
1932
6.0
The Gay Caballero
as Ted Radcliffe
1932
0.0
The Rainbow Trail
as John Shefford
1932
0.0
Riders of the Purple Sage
as Jim Lassiter
1931
0.0
A Holy Terror
as Tony Bard aka Woodbury
1931
5.7
Fair Warning
as Whistlin' Dan Barry
1931
0.0
Seas Beneath
as Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley
1931
4.9
The Last of the Duanes
as Buck Duane
1930
3.0
Rough Romance
as Billy West
1930
5.0
The Lone Star Ranger
as Buck Duane
1930
5.0
Salute
as Cadet John Randall
1929
4.7
Masked Emotions
as Bramdlet Dickery
1929
0.0
True Heaven
as Lieutenant Philip Gresson
1929
0.0
Blindfold
as Robert Kelly
1928
0.0
Noah's Ark
as Travis / Japheth
1928
6.2
Honor Bound
as John Oglegree
1928
0.0
Sharp Shooters
as George
1928
0.0
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
as The Man (Anses)
1927
7.8
East Side, West Side
as John Breen
1927
7.2
Paid to Love
as Crown Prince Michae
1927
6.0
Is Zat So?
as Ed 'Chick' Cowan
1927
0.0
The Blue Eagle
as George Darcy
1926
5.1
3 Bad Men
as Dan O'Malley
1926
6.8
Fig Leaves
as Adam Smith
1926
5.8
The Silver Treasure
as Nostromo
1926
0.0
Rustlin' for Cupid
as Bradley Blatchford
1926
0.0
The Johnstown Flood
as Tom O'Day
1926
6.8
The Fighting Heart
as Denny Bolton
1925
5.0
Thank You
as Kenneth Jamieson
1925
3.7
The Iron Horse
as Davy Brandon
1925
6.7
Havoc
as Dick Chappel
1925
0.0
The Dancers
as Tony
1925
5.0
The Roughneck
as Jerry Delaney
1924
0.0
The Painted Lady
as Luther Smith
1924
0.0
The Man Who Came Back
as Henry Potter
1924
0.0
The Sea Hawk
as Galley Slave (uncredited)
1924
6.5
Shadows of Paris
as Louis
1924
0.0
Woman-Proof
as Bill Burleigh
1923
0.0
The Ne'er-Do-Well
as Clifford
1923
0.0
Ebb Tide
as Islander (uncredited)
1922
0.0
The Ghost Breaker
as One of the Ghosts (uncredited)
1922
0.0
Moran of the Lady Letty
as Deck Hand
1922
6.5