- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- November 14, 1880
- Place of Birth
- Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Died
- April 29, 1966
Eugene O'Brien
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 Gover…
Filmography
movieThe Flag
2016 · Writer
movieThe Food Guide to Love
2013 · Writer
movieThe Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961 · Self (archive footage)
The Faithless Lover
movieThe Faithless Lover
1928 · Austin Kent
movieThe Romantic Age
1927 · Stephen Winslow
movieFlames
1926 · Herbert Landis
movieFine Manners
1926 · Brian Alden
movieSiege
1925 · Kenyon Ruyland
movieGraustark
1925 · Grenfall Lorry
movieDangerous Innocence
1925 · Major Seymour
movieSouls for Sables
1925 · Fred Garlan
movieThe Only Woman
1924 · Rex Herrington
movieSecrets
1924 · John Carlton
movieThe Voice from the Minaret
1923 · Andrew Fabian
movieJohn Smith
1922 · John Smith
movieChanning of the Northwest
1922 · Channing
movieThe Prophet's Paradise
1922 · Howard Anderson
movieClay Dollars
1921 · Bruce Edwards
movieIs Life Worth Living?
1921 · Melville Marley
movieThe Last Door
1921 · The Magnet
movieGilded Lies
1921 · Keene McComb
movieWorlds Apart
1921 · Hugh Ledyard
Broadway and Home
movieBroadway and Home
1920 · Michael Strange
movieThe Wonderful Chance
1920 · Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
movieThe Figurehead
1920 · Sheridan Dow
movieA Fool and His Money
1920 · John B. Smart
movieHis Wife's Money
1920 · Richard Flint
movieThe Broken Melody
1919 · Stewart Grant
movieSealed Hearts
1919 · Jack Prentiss
movieThe Perfect Lover
1919 · Brian Lazar
movieFires of Faith
1919 · Harry Hammond, a Broker
movieCome Out of the Kitchen
1919 · Burton Crane
movieLittle Miss Hoover
1918 · Major Adam Baldwin
movieUnder the Greenwood Tree
1918 · Jack Hutton
The Spirit That Wins
movieThe Spirit That Wins
1918 · The Soldier
movieHer Only Way
1918 · Joseph Marshall
movieThe Safety Curtain
1918 · Captain Merryon
movieA Romance of the Underworld
1918 · Thomas McDonald
movieDe Luxe Annie
1918 · Jimmy Fitzpatrick
movieBy Right of Purchase
1918 · Chadwick Himes
movieThe Ghosts of Yesterday
1918 · Howard Marston
movieThe Moth
1917 · Cpt. Bridgey
movieRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917 · Adam Ladd
moviePoppy
1917 · Sir Evelyn Carson
movieThe Rise of Susan
1916 · Clavering Gordon
movieThe Chaperon
1916 · Jim Ogden
movieThe Return of Eve
1916 · Adam
movieThe Scarlet Woman
1916 · Robert Blake
moviePoor Little Peppina
1916 · Hugh Carroll
movieJust Out of College
1915 · Edward Worthington Swinger
movieThe Moonstone
1915 · Franklin Blake