William H. O'Brien
Acting • Born 1891-07-19 – Died 1981-04-18
Biography
Australian born William H. O'Brien began his screen acting career in Australia in 1918, then resumed in Hollywood in 1921. He continued acting in films and television series to 1971.
Filmography
300 credits
The Thin Man
Movie • 1934
Bartender (uncredited)
He Ran All the Way
Movie • 1951
Man Entering Apt. Building (uncredited)
Alias the Champ
Movie • 1949
Audience Spectator (uncredited)
Ball of Fire
Movie • 1941
Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
It Started with Eve
Movie • 1941
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Topaz
Movie • 1969
Butler (uncredited)
Lady for a Night
Movie • 1942
King's Club Worker (uncredited)
She-Wolf of London
Movie • 1946
Constable (uncredited)
The Unsuspected
Movie • 1947
Servant with Tray (uncredited)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Movie • 1951
Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Movie • 1950
Waiter at Party (uncredited)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Movie • 1955
Townsman (uncredited)
Hong Kong
Movie • 1952
Observer at Scene (uncredited)
The Strange Door
Movie • 1951
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Movie • 1947
Executive (uncredited)
Bannerline
Movie • 1951
Gunpoint
Movie • 1966
Rio Lobo
Movie • 1970
Man in Army Post Saloon (uncredited)
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie • 1971
Old Chess Player (uncredited)
Big Time Or Bust
Movie • 1933
Hammond's Butler (uncredited)
Five and Ten
Movie • 1931
Duncan (uncredited)
The Unholy Wife
Movie • 1957
Juror (uncredited)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Movie • 1944
Servant Peeking in Keyhole (uncredited)
Chicago Confidential
Movie • 1957
Dixon's Valet (uncredited)
Do You Love Me
Movie • 1946
Waiter at Mindy's (uncredited)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Movie • 1957
Townsman (uncredited)
The Firefly
Movie • 1937
Waiter (uncredited)
The Mysterious Lady
Movie • 1928
Cafe Waiter Serving Wine (uncredited)
There's Always Tomorrow
Movie • 1956
Lady on a Train
Movie • 1945
Shadow of Doubt
Movie • 1935
Waiter
Illegal
Movie • 1955
Butler (uncredited)
Remember?
Movie • 1939
Waiter (uncredited)
Fort Ti
Movie • 1953
Bartender
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Movie • 1949
Waiter (uncredited)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Movie • 1947
Who Was That Lady?
Movie • 1960
Passenger Exiting Elevator (uncredited)
Let's Dance
Movie • 1950
Waiter (uncredited)
The Tattered Dress
Movie • 1957
Juror (uncredited)
Topper Returns
Movie • 1941
Second Butler (uncredited)
Reaching for the Moon
Movie • 1930
Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)
The Half-Naked Truth
Movie • 1932
Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
Cry Tough
Movie • 1959
Ladies' Man
Movie • 1931
Elevator starter
Murder by Contract
Movie • 1958
Hotel Take-Out Delivery Man (uncredited)
Frenchie
Movie • 1950
Townsman (uncredited)
New Moon
Movie • 1930
Waiter at Ball
Long Lost Father
Movie • 1934
Waiter Getting Carl to Telephone
The Gay Deception
Movie • 1935
Waiter (uncredited)
Ivy
Movie • 1947
Barrister (uncredited)
The Graduate
Movie • 1967
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Strictly Unconventional
Movie • 1930
Footman
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Movie • 1953
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
The Wheeler Dealers
Movie • 1963
Waiter (uncredited)
Hollywood Mystery
Movie • 1934
Tony's Butler
Ocean's Eleven
Movie • 1960
Waiter at Burlesque Club (uncredited)
The Bad and the Beautiful
Movie • 1952
Waiter at Party (uncredited)
Money, Women and Guns
Movie • 1958
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Louisa
Movie • 1950
Waiter (uncredited)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Movie • 1971
Portobello Road Passerby (uncredited)
The Story on Page One
Movie • 1959
Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)
The Blot
Movie • 1921
College Student (uncredited)
Sweet Smell of Success
Movie • 1957
Waiter at 21 (uncredited)
The Misses Stooge
Movie • 1935
The Butler (uncredited)
Special Investigator
Movie • 1936
Nightclub Waiter
Wells Fargo
Movie • 1937
Headwaiter
While the City Sleeps
Movie • 1928
Apartment Tenant
The Singing Fool
Movie • 1928
Waiter at Blackie Joe's (uncredited)
To Beat the Band
Movie • 1935
Waiter
His Family Tree
Movie • 1935
Man at Mayoral Debate
Stronger Than Desire
Movie • 1939
Waiter (uncredited)
The Blonde from Singapore
Movie • 1941
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Movie • 1955
Movie Patron (uncredited)
Carrie
Movie • 1952
Waiter (uncredited)
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Movie • 1957
Rooming House Boarder (uncredited)
Champagne Charlie
Movie • 1936
Extra as Ship Waiter
Zorro's Fighting Legion
Movie • 1939
Legionnaire
Shakedown
Movie • 1950
Waiter (uncredited)
Playboy of Paris
Movie • 1930
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
Movie • 1954
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
All About Eve
Movie • 1950
Waiter at Margo's Party (uncredited)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Movie • 1949
Room Service Waiter (uncredited)
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Movie • 1939
Nightclub Waiter
Girl from Rio
Movie • 1939
Condor Club Headwaiter
Gypsy
Movie • 1962
Audience Member (uncredited)
That's Right – You're Wrong
Movie • 1939
Lawn Party Waiter (Uncredited)
Honeymoon in Bali
Movie • 1939
Doorman (uncredited)
Eternally Yours
Movie • 1939
Nightclub Waiter
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Movie • 1933
Waiter (uncredited)
Valley of the Dolls
Movie • 1967
Bartender (uncredited)
The Far Country
Movie • 1954
Townsman (uncredited)
Men Call It Love
Movie • 1931
Brooks' Butler (uncredited)
The Country Doctor
Movie • 1936
Waiter in Restaurant (uncredited)
The Last Hurrah
Movie • 1958
Man (uncredited)
Race Street
Movie • 1948
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Witness for the Prosecution
Movie • 1957
Barrister (uncredited)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Movie • 1961
German Prisoner in Cafeteria (uncredited)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Movie • 1962
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Daybreak
Movie • 1931
Bartender
Zero Hour!
Movie • 1957
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Emma
Movie • 1932
Man (uncredited)
The Joker is Wild
Movie • 1957
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Niagara Falls
Movie • 1941
Waiter (uncredited)
Street of Chance
Movie • 1930
Waiter (uncredited)
Forgotten Women
Movie • 1931
Sleek's Butler
Rebecca
Movie • 1940
Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
Woman in Hiding
Movie • 1950
Conventioneer (uncredited)
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
Movie • 1966
Waiter at Officer's Ball (uncredited)
The Earl of Chicago
Movie • 1940
Turnkey (uncredited)
North of the Rio Grande
Movie • 1937
Bald Saloon Waiter
Edison, the Man
Movie • 1940
Waiter
High Noon
Movie • 1952
Church Member (uncredited)
On the Riviera
Movie • 1951
Waiter at Party (uncredited)
The Showdown
Movie • 1940
Bald Bartender
Buck Benny Rides Again
Movie • 1940
Waiter
The Patsy
Movie • 1928
Waiter (uncredited)
Battle Cry
Movie • 1955
Bartender (uncredited)
Special Agent
Movie • 1949
Barber's Customer (uncredited)
Jungle Goddess
Movie • 1948
Bartender (uncredited)
Ace in the Hole
Movie • 1951
Customer at Minosa's (uncredited)
Fallen Angel
Movie • 1945
Bus Passenger (uncredited)
The Square Jungle
Movie • 1955
Government Girl
Movie • 1943
Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
The Hoodlum Saint
Movie • 1946
Waiter at Wedding Brunch (uncredited)
Red-Headed Woman
Movie • 1932
Waiter at Gaerste Party (uncredited)
The Arizonian
Movie • 1935
Waiter in Opera House
City for Conquest
Movie • 1940
Waiter (uncredited)
No Time for Comedy
Movie • 1940
Waiter in Bar (uncredited)
Hired Wife
Movie • 1940
Waiter
A Chump at Oxford
Movie • 1940
Man in Unemployment Office (uncredited)
One Night in the Tropics
Movie • 1940
Joe, Club Roscoe Waiter (uncredited)
Turnabout
Movie • 1940
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Captain Caution
Movie • 1940
English Sailor Who Pleads for Water
Love Thy Neighbor
Movie • 1940
Nightclub Waiter
City of Chance
Movie • 1940
Waiter
Captain Swagger
Movie • 1928
Waiter
Anybody's Woman
Movie • 1930
Butler
Dance Charlie Dance
Movie • 1937
Bored Spectator (uncredited)
Sing, Baby, Sing
Movie • 1936
Nightclub Waiter
No Time for Love
Movie • 1943
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
The Damned Don't Cry
Movie • 1950
Waiter at Party (uncredited)
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1956
Extra (uncredited)
The Tiger Woman
Movie • 1945
Waiter (uncredited)
Citizen Kane
Movie • 1941
Secretary (uncredited)
Diamond Jim
Movie • 1935
Waiter
Sinner Take All
Movie • 1936
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Trouble Along the Way
Movie • 1953
Bartender Joe
Once More, My Darling
Movie • 1949
Waiter
The Road to Reno
Movie • 1931
Waiter
Curtain Call
Movie • 1940
Waiter Bringing Caviar
Forty Little Mothers
Movie • 1940
Waiter
The Trespasser
Movie • 1929
Butler (uncredited)
The Woman in Green
Movie • 1945
Pembrook House Waiter (uncredited)
The Feminine Touch
Movie • 1941
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Elmer Gantry
Movie • 1960
Train Conductor
Children of Pleasure
Movie • 1930
Party Butler #2 (uncredited)
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Movie • 1940
Waiter
The Star
Movie • 1952
Waiter at Party (uncredited)
Bombers B-52
Movie • 1957
Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)
Brooklyn Orchid
Movie • 1942
Waiter at Party
The Phantom of Paris
Movie • 1931
Chéri-Bibi's Valet (uncredited)
San Francisco
Movie • 1936
Waiter at Chicken's Ball (uncredited)
Hollywood Scout
Movie • 1945
Man with Chimpanzee (uncredited)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Movie • 1946
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Woman's World
Movie • 1954
Servant
A Place in the Sun
Movie • 1951
Servant at Eastman's Party (uncredited)
The Walking Dead
Movie • 1936
Juror (uncredited)
Daisy Kenyon
Movie • 1947
Bartender at Stork Club (uncredited)
Airport
Movie • 1970
Waiter at Men's Club
Let Us Be Gay
Movie • 1930
Struthers - 2nd Butler (as William O'Brien)
The Seven Year Itch
Movie • 1955
Man at Train Station (uncredited)
The Harder They Fall
Movie • 1956
Ringsider (uncredited)
The Trouble with Girls
Movie • 1969
Hotel Lobby Extra (uncredited)
Scarface
Movie • 1932
Waiter (uncredited)
Action in the North Atlantic
Movie • 1943
Lieutenant-Commander at Meeting (uncredited)
Pack Up Your Troubles
Movie • 1932
Butler (uncredited)
A Woman of Affairs
Movie • 1928
Man Peering Into Room (uncredited)
Margin for Error
Movie • 1943
Waiter
So Proudly We Hail
Movie • 1943
Troop Ship Survivor (Uncredited)
The Spider Woman
Movie • 1943
Doorman (uncredited)
Undercurrent
Movie • 1946
Waiter (uncredited)
Faithless
Movie • 1932
Croupier
The Rage of Paris
Movie • 1938
Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)
The Man in the Iron Mask
Movie • 1939
Servant
Pillow Talk
Movie • 1959
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Movie • 1945
Footman (uncredited)
Only Yesterday
Movie • 1933
Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)
Johnny Allegro
Movie • 1949
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Movie • 1961
Waiter (uncredited)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie • 1951
Waiter (uncredited)
Angel on My Shoulder
Movie • 1946
Court Spectator (uncredited)
Anna Christie
Movie • 1930
Waiter at Coney Island (uncredited)
Ex-Lady
Movie • 1933
Butler (uncredited)
The Big Sleep
Movie • 1946
Waiter (uncredited)
Hollywood Story
Movie • 1951
Café Waiter (uncredited)
Father of the Bride
Movie • 1950
Waiter (uncredited)
Bachelor Bait
Movie • 1934
Waiter #2 (uncredited)
Body and Soul
Movie • 1947
Bartender (uncredited)
Tomorrow We Live
Movie • 1942
Keep 'Em Flying
Movie • 1941
Waiter at Manila Club (uncredited)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Movie • 1934
Banquet Servant
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Movie • 1947
Card Dealer (uncredited)
In Society
Movie • 1944
Party Waiter (uncredited)
The Naughty Nineties
Movie • 1945
Troupe Member (uncredited)
The Time of Their Lives
Movie • 1946
Danbury Servant (uncredited)
Some Like It Hot
Movie • 1959
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
The Wet Parade
Movie • 1932
Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
A Song to Remember
Movie • 1945
Guest at Salon Concert (uncredited)
The Racket
Movie • 1928
Detective Frisking Nick
Road to Rio
Movie • 1947
Ship's Waiter
I Walk Alone
Movie • 1947
Waiter (uncredited)
Take a Letter, Darling
Movie • 1942
Waiter (uncredited)
Dressed to Kill
Movie • 1946
Detective at Murder Scene
The Children's Hour
Movie • 1961
Funeral Assistant (uncredited)
In Old Chicago
Movie • 1938
Senate Waiter (uncredited)
Dial M for Murder
Movie • 1954
Waiter at Stag Dinner (uncredited)
Sabrina
Movie • 1954
Bartender (uncredited)
Nobody Lives Forever
Movie • 1946
Waiter (uncredited)
Smart Money
Movie • 1931
Nick's Chauffeur Bill (uncredited)
Pot o' Gold
Movie • 1941
Country Club Waiter (uncredited)
Home Before Dark
Movie • 1958
Waiter at Christmas Party
Two Sisters from Boston
Movie • 1946
Recording Lab Assistant (uncredited)
You Gotta Stay Happy
Movie • 1948
Waiter (Uncredited)
Something to Live For
Movie • 1952
Waiter (uncredited)
Sorry, Wrong Number
Movie • 1948
Waiter at Wedding Reception (uncredited)
Designing Woman
Movie • 1957
Party Guest (uncredited)
Pressure Point
Movie • 1962
Bund Meeting Spectator
Go Into Your Dance
Movie • 1935
Casino de Paree Waiter
It's Always Fair Weather
Movie • 1955
Waiter (uncredited)
Superman and the Mole Men
Movie • 1951
Townsman (uncredited)
The Old Homestead
Movie • 1935
Waiter (uncredited)
Carnival Rock
Movie • 1957
Onlooker at Fire (uncredited)
Monkey Business
Movie • 1931
Waiter
Gold Is Where You Find It
Movie • 1938
Butler at Party (uncredited)
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Movie • 1960
Circus Spectator
A Night at the Opera
Movie • 1935
Stagehand (uncredited)
Anything Goes
Movie • 1956
Waiter
Kitty
Movie • 1945
Coach Footman (uncredited)
Daddy Long Legs
Movie • 1955
Hotel Waiter
The Falcon Takes Over
Movie • 1942
Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)
Movie Crazy
Movie • 1932
Waiter (Uncredited)
The Climax
Movie • 1944
Audience Member (Uncredited)
Merrily We Go to Hell
Movie • 1932
Waiter (uncredited)
Hit Parade of 1941
Movie • 1940
Waiter
The Guilty Generation
Movie • 1931
Victor - Mike's Butler
Swing Shift Maisie
Movie • 1943
Courtroom Spectator (Uncredited)
Maisie Gets Her Man
Movie • 1942
Detective Taking in Hixby (Uncredited)
Flamingo Road
Movie • 1949
Undercover Maisie
Movie • 1947
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
The High and the Mighty
Movie • 1954
Restaurant Cook
New York Confidential
Movie • 1955
The Men
Movie • 1950
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Test Pilot
Movie • 1938
Waiter (uncredited)
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Movie • 1938
Reporter (uncredited)
Munster, Go Home!
Movie • 1966
Man at Customs (uncredited)
It's a Great Feeling
Movie • 1949
Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
Horizons West
Movie • 1952
Barfly (uncredited)
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Movie • 1949
Bartender (uncredited)
Canyon Passage
Movie • 1946
Miner (uncredited)
Sin Takes a Holiday
Movie • 1930
Waiter at Royal Club (uncredited)
Vagabond Lady
Movie • 1935
Waiter (uncredited)
Midnight Mary
Movie • 1933
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
The Mad Whirl
Movie • 1925
The Todd Killings
Movie • 1971
Mr. Miller (uncredited)
The Leopard Man
Movie • 1943
Bartender (uncredited)
The Delicious Little Devil
Movie • 1919
Waiter (uncredited)
The Comic
Movie • 1969
Funeral Guest (uncredited)
West of Broadway
Movie • 1931
Waiter (uncredited)
Larceny on the Air
Movie • 1937
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
The Thin Man Goes Home
Movie • 1944
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Désirée
Movie • 1954
Servant (uncredited)
Julius Caesar
Movie • 1953
Senator (uncredited)
The Bounty Hunter
Movie • 1954
Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
Critic's Choice
Movie • 1963
Audience Member (uncredited)
Dirigible
Movie • 1931
Sailor (uncredited)
The Helen Morgan Story
Movie • 1957
Surprise Party Guest (uncredited)
One of Our Spies Is Missing
Movie • 1966
The Butler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Iron Man
Movie • 1951
Waiter (uncredited)
Christmas Holiday
Movie • 1944
Waiter (uncredited)
Submarine
Movie • 1928
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
The Sky Raiders
Movie • 1931
Henchman Conte
Little Caesar
Movie • 1931
Waiter (uncredited)
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Audience Member (uncredited)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Grandpa
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Bartender (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Juror (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Guest At Demonstration (uncredited)
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Riverboat Bartender (uncredited)
Bewitched
TV • 1964
Waiter (uncredited)
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Waiter (uncredited)
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Crommer Party Guest (uncredited)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Butler (uncredited)
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Delegate (uncredited)
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Waiter (uncredited)
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Bartender (uncredited)
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Laredo
TV • 1965
Townsman (uncredited)
Get Smart
TV • 1965
Scientist (uncredited)
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Waiter (uncredited)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
Townsman (uncredited)