George O'Brien

Known For: Acting
Born: April 18, 1899
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Died: September 4, 1985

George O'Brien

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.

Filmography

The Only Girl in the Orchestra

2023 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

1976 · (archive footage)

Cheyenne Autumn

1964 · Major Braden

The 10 from Texas

1961 · (archive footage)

Korea

1959 · Narrator

Studio 57

1954

This Is Your Life

1952 · Self

Gold Raiders

1951 · George O'Brien

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949 · Maj. Mac Allshard

Fort Apache

1948 · Capt. Sam Collingwood

My Wild Irish Rose

1947 · 'Duke' Muldoon

December 7th

1943 · Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)

Triple Justice

1940 · Brad Henderson

Stage to Chino

1940 · Dan Clark

Prairie Law

1940 · Brill Austin

Bullet Code

1940 · Steve Holden

Legion of the Lawless

1940 · Jeff Toland

The Marshal Of Mesa City

1939 · Cliff Mason

The Fighting Gringo

1939 · Wade Barton

Timber Stampede

1939 · Scott Baylor

Racketeers of the Range

1939 · Barney O'Dell

Trouble in Sundown

1939 · Clint Bradford

Arizona Legion

1939 · Boone Yeager

Lawless Valley

1938 · Larry Rhodes

The Renegade Ranger

1938 · Captain Jack Steele

Painted Desert

1938 · Bob McVey

Border G-Man

1938 · Jim Galloway

Gun Law

1938 · Tom O'Malley

Windjammer

1937 · Bruce Lane

Hollywood Cowboy

1937 · Jeffery Carson

Park Avenue Logger

1937 · Grant Curran

Daniel Boone

1936 · Daniel Boone

The Border Patrolman

1936 · Bob Wallace

O'Malley of the Mounted

1936 · Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard

Thunder Mountain

1935 · Kal Emerson

Hard Rock Harrigan

Hard Rock Harrigan

1935 · Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan

Whispering Smith Speaks

1935 · Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith

The Cowboy Millionaire

1935 · Bob Walker

When a Man's a Man

1935 · Larry Knight

The Dude Ranger

1934 · Ernest 'Dude' Selby

Ever Since Eve

1934 · Neil Rogers

Frontier Marshal

1934 · Michael Wyatt

The Last Trail

1933 · Tom Daley

Life in the Raw

1933 · Jim Barry

Smoke Lightning

1933 · Smoke Mason

Robbers' Roost

1932 · Jim Wall

The Golden West

1932 · David Lynch / Motano

Mystery Ranch

1932 · Bob Sanborn

The Gay Caballero

1932 · Ted Radcliffe

The Rainbow Trail

1932 · John Shefford

Riders of the Purple Sage

1931 · Jim Lassiter

A Holy Terror

1931 · Tony Bard aka Woodbury

Fair Warning

1931 · Whistlin' Dan Barry

Seas Beneath

1931 · Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley

The Last of the Duanes

1930 · Buck Duane

Rough Romance

1930 · Billy West

The Lone Star Ranger

1930 · Buck Duane

Hollywood Studios

1930

Salute

1929 · Cadet John Randall

Masked Emotions

1929 · Bramdlet Dickery

True Heaven

1929 · Lieutenant Philip Gresson

Blindfold

1928 · Robert Kelly

Noah's Ark

1928 · Travis / Japheth

Honor Bound

1928 · John Oglegree

Sharp Shooters

1928 · George

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927 · The Man (Anses)

East Side, West Side

1927 · John Breen

Paid to Love

1927 · Crown Prince Michae

Is Zat So?

1927 · Ed 'Chick' Cowan

The Blue Eagle

1926 · George Darcy

3 Bad Men

1926 · Dan O'Malley

Fig Leaves

1926 · Adam Smith

The Silver Treasure

1926 · Nostromo

Rustlin' for Cupid

1926 · Bradley Blatchford

The Johnstown Flood

1926 · Tom O'Day

The Fighting Heart

1925 · Denny Bolton

Thank You

1925 · Kenneth Jamieson

The Iron Horse

1925 · Davy Brandon

Havoc

1925 · Dick Chappel

The Dancers

1925 · Tony

The Roughneck

1924 · Jerry Delaney

The Painted Lady

1924 · Luther Smith

The Man Who Came Back

1924 · Henry Potter

The Sea Hawk

1924 · Galley Slave (uncredited)

Shadows of Paris

1924 · Louis

Woman-Proof

1923 · Bill Burleigh

The Ne'er-Do-Well

1923 · Clifford

Ebb Tide

1922 · Islander (uncredited)

The Ghost Breaker

1922 · One of the Ghosts (uncredited)

Moran of the Lady Letty

1922 · Deck Hand

White Hands

1922 · Sailor

George O'Brien · Virelixia