Margaret O'Brien

Known For: Acting
Born: January 15, 1937
Place of Birth: San Diego, California, USA

Margaret O'Brien

Margaret O'Brien (born January 15, 1937) is an American film and stage actress. Although her film career as a leading character was brief, she was one of the most popular child actors in cinema history. In her later career, she appeared on stage and in supporting film roles. She was born Angela Maxine O'Brien; (she later changed her name to Margaret following the success of the film Journey for Margaret, in which she played the title role). Her father Lawrence O'Brien, a circus performer, died before she was born.[1]; Margaret's mother, Gladys Flores, was a well-known flamenco dancer who often performed with her sister Marissa, also a dancer. Margaret is of half-Irish and half-Spanish ancestry. She made her first film appearance in Babes on Broadway (1941) at the age of four, but it was the following year that her first major role brought her widespread attention. As a five-year-old in…

Filmography

This Is Our Christmas

2018 · Mrs. Foxworth

Prepper's Grove

Prepper's Grove

2018 · Gigi

Impact Event

2018 · Amanda

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

2018 · Self

Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!

2017 · Bridgette's Grandmother

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

2017 · Ms. Stevenson

Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity

2015 · Self

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!

2011 · Self - Interviewee

Frankenstein Rising

2010

Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse

2009 · Miss Coyote (voice)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

2004 · Self

The Craven Cove Murders

2002 · Fan

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

2002 · Self - Actress

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

1998 · Self

Creaturealm: From the Dead

1998 · Herself

Hollywood Mortuary

1998 · Herself

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

Sunset After Dark

Sunset After Dark

1996 · Betty Corman

The Story of Lassie

1994 · Self

100 Years at the Movies

1994 · Self (archive footage)

Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic

1994 · Self

When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen

1989 · Self

The New Lassie

1989

Tales from the Darkside

1984 · Mildred Webster

Murder, She Wrote

1984 · Jane

Showbiz Goes to War

1982 · Self (archive footage)

Hotel

1982 · Martha Connelly

Hollywood’s Children

1982 · Self (archive footage)

Amy

1981 · Hazel Johnson

Testimony of Two Men

1977 · Flora Bumpstead Eaton

That's Entertainment!

1974 · (archive footage) (uncredited)

Death in Space

1974 · Pam Rhodes

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

1973 · Self (archive footage)

Diabolic Wedding

1971

The Pledge of Allegiance

1971 · Narrator

Love, American Style

1969

Marcus Welby, M.D.

1969 · Neva Phillips

Split Second to an Epitaph

1968 · Louise Prescott

Adam-12

1968 · Mrs. Pendleton

Ironside

1967 · Louise Prescott

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

1967 · Self

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963 · Anne Lipscott

Combat!

1962 · Marianne Fraisnet

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962 · Self

The Mike Douglas Show

1961 · Self

Dr. Kildare

1961 · Nurse Lori Palmer

The Aquanauts

1960 · Ellen Marstand

Heller in Pink Tights

1960 · Della Southby

Adventures in Paradise

1959 · Phyllis Willoughby

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

1959 · Jean

Rawhide

1959 · Betsy Stauffer

The Mystery of Thirteen

The Mystery of Thirteen

1957 · Annie Brookes

Perry Mason

1957 · Virginia Trent

Wagon Train

1957 · Julie Revere

The Steve Allen Show

1956 · Self - Singer

Glory

1956 · Clarabel Tilbee

Matinee Theater

1955

Hollywood Preview

Hollywood Preview

1955 · Self

MGM Parade

1955 · Self

Climax!

1954 · Kathy Fathian, Chip, Angie Hawley

The Oscars

1953 · Self

General Electric Theater

1953 · Sarah Trask

The Eyes of Two People

1952 · Catherine McDermott

Her First Romance

1951 · Betty Foster

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre

1950 · Margaret, Laura, Elaine, Self - Intermission Guest

What's My Line?

1950 · Self

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950 · Ginny

The Secret Garden

1949 · Mary Lennox

Little Women

1949 · Beth

Studio One

1948 · , Julie Denton, Jenny Walker

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

Big City

1948 · Midge

Tenth Avenue Angel

1948 · Flavia Mills

The Unfinished Dance

1947 · 'Meg' Merlin

Kraft Television Theatre

1947

Three Wise Fools

1946 · Sheila O'Monahan

Bad Bascomb

1946 · Emmy

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

1945 · Selma Jacobson

Music for Millions

1944 · Mike

Meet Me in St. Louis

1944 · 'Tootie' Smith

The Canterville Ghost

1944 · Lady Jessica de Canterville

Twenty Years After

1944 · (archive footage)

Jane Eyre

1943 · Adele Varens

Lost Angel

1943 · Alpha

Madame Curie

1943 · Irene Curie - Age 5

Thousands Cheer

1943 · Drug Store Customer

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

1943 · Margaret

You, John Jones!

1943 · Daughter

Journey for Margaret

1942 · Margaret

Babes on Broadway

1941 · Maxine (uncredited)

Love Is in Bel Air

— · Vivienne

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