Pat O'Malley
Acting • Born 1890-09-02 – Died 1966-05-21
Biography
Often confused with the British-born comic actor J. Pat O'Malley, who is the better remembered, silent dramatic film star Pat O'Malley had an enduring career that stands on its own. He was of solid Irish-American stock, born in Forest City, Pennsylvania, in 1890. A one-time railroad switchman, he also had circus experience by the time he discovered an interest in movie making. He began with the Kalem Studio in 1913 and appeared in a few Irish films before signing on with Thomas Edison's company in 1914. The following year, he married actress Lillian Wilkes, and three of their children, Eileen, Mary Katherine, and Sheila, would become actors as well. His brother Charles O'Malley was a sometime actor, appearing in westerns on occasion. His first identifiable film is The Alien (1913). He began freelancing in 1916 and from then on, appeared in scores of silents as both a rugged and romantic lead, some classic films being The Heart of Humanity (1918), My Wild Irish Rose (1922), and The Virginian (1923). He did not age well come sound pictures, and he was quickly relegated to supporting parts. He appeared in hundreds upon hundreds of bits (mostly unbilled) until 1956, when he retired. He died a decade later.
Filmography
220 credits
The Secret Of St. Ives
Movie • 1949
Sergeant (uncredited)
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Movie • 2019
Mr. Wilson (archive footage)
The Whirlwind
Movie • 1933
Pat Patrick
On Dangerous Paths
Movie • 1915
Roger Sterritt
The Last Hour
Movie • 1923
Philip Logan
Cause for Divorce
Movie • 1923
Howard Metcliffe
High Speed
Movie • 1932
Paul Whipple
The Perfect Clue
Movie • 1935
Police Officer
Those We Love
Movie • 1932
Daley
Let Women Alone
Movie • 1925
Tom Benham
Slippy McGee
Movie • 1923
Lawrence Mayne
The Lightning Warrior
Movie • 1931
Sheriff A. W. Brown
The Fighting Marines
Movie • 1935
Capt. Grayson [Ch. 1]
The Crime Doctor
Movie • 1934
Detective (uncredited)
Sundown Rider
Movie • 1932
Lafe Armstrong
The Great Man's Lady
Movie • 1941
Officer Murphy (uncredited)
The Tell-Tale Step
Movie • 1917
Hugh Graham
Exclusive Story
Movie • 1936
Third Officer (uncredited)
Love Past Thirty
Movie • 1934
Lon Burt
Perch of the Devil
Movie • 1927
Gregory Compton
The Old West
Movie • 1952
Townsman (uncredited)
Homicide Squad
Movie • 1931
Man
Persons in Hiding
Movie • 1939
Deputy Driver (uncredited)
The Night of Nights
Movie • 1939
Actor (uncredited)
The Man I Love
Movie • 1929
D.J. McCarthy
Alcatraz Island
Movie • 1937
Prison Guard (uncredited)
Exposure
Movie • 1932
Van Avery - City Editor
The Wild One
Movie • 1953
Sawyer (uncredited)
The Drunkard
Movie • 1935
First Drunk
The Penal Code
Movie • 1932
Sergeant Detective W. J. Bender
Klondike
Movie • 1932
Burke
Riot Squad
Movie • 1933
Det. Bob Larkin
Proud Flesh
Movie • 1925
Patrick O'Malley
The Reckless Moment
Movie • 1949
Bank Guard (uncredited)
McQuade of the Traffic Squad
Movie • 1915
Pat McQuade
The Light That Failed
Movie • 1939
Bullock
The Heart of Humanity
Movie • 1918
Clancy
The Reckoning
Movie • 1932
Bob
Pirate Treasure
Movie • 1934
John Craig
The Law of the North
Movie • 1917
Cpl. John Emerson
The Man from Brodney's
Movie • 1923
Robert Browne
Laughing at Life
Movie • 1933
Detective Agency Official
Always Goodbye
Movie • 1938
Cop (uncredited)
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
Movie • 1956
Doc Blaine
The Fall Guy
Movie • 1930
Charles Newton
Shooting High
Movie • 1940
Lem Pritchard
Bob Hampton of Placer
Movie • 1921
Lt. Brant
Frisco Jenny
Movie • 1933
Policeman Pat O'Hoolihan
A Man of Sentiment
Movie • 1933
Officer Ryan
Go and Get It
Movie • 1920
Kirk Connelly
Heir to Trouble
Movie • 1935
Mining Engineer
The Prussian Cur
Movie • 1918
Jimmie O'Grady
The Beauty Prize
Movie • 1924
George Brady
Bread
Movie • 1924
Roy Beardsley
Law of the Range
Movie • 1941
Mr. Howard
The Bad and the Beautiful
Movie • 1952
Man Outside the Club (uncredited)
Alibi
Movie • 1929
Detective Sgt. Tommy Glennon
Ever Since Eve
Movie • 1937
Police Officer (uncredited)
We're Only Human
Movie • 1935
Police Officer Jordan
Wanted: Jane Turner
Movie • 1936
Joe - Lansing's Assistant (uncredited)
36 Hours to Kill
Movie • 1936
G-Man
The Phantom Creeps
Movie • 1939
AMI Chief
Beloved Enemy
Movie • 1936
Patrick Callahan
His Family Tree
Movie • 1935
Seated Pub Sailor
Secret Service of the Air
Movie • 1939
Guard Cooper
Key Witness
Movie • 1947
Detective Norris (uncredited)
Smashing the Money Ring
Movie • 1939
Second Convict Custodian on Train (uncredited)
The Big Noise
Movie • 1936
Boyle, Policeman with Kerrigan (uncredited)
Paddy O'Day
Movie • 1936
Immigration Officer Tom Wilson
Champagne Charlie
Movie • 1936
Ship's Officer
He Couldn't Say No
Movie • 1938
Policeman in Car
A Star Is Born
Movie • 1954
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Let Us Live
Movie • 1939
Captain (uncredited)
They Made Her a Spy
Movie • 1939
Intelligence Service Man
Dodge City
Movie • 1939
Conductor (uncredited)
Mothers Cry
Movie • 1930
Frank Williams
Women in the Wind
Movie • 1939
Cleveland Official (uncredited)
Five Came Back
Movie • 1939
Mike Mulvaney (uncredited)
Stunt Pilot
Movie • 1939
Sheehan
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Movie • 1939
Police Guard (uncredited)
Frontier Marshal
Movie • 1939
Bar Patron
Sailor's Holiday
Movie • 1944
Sergeant Madden
Movie • 1939
Police Sergeant
Dust Be My Destiny
Movie • 1939
Bailiff (uncredited)
The Escape
Movie • 1939
Neighbor
The Roaring Twenties
Movie • 1939
Jailer (uncredited)
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Movie • 1939
Policeman
Lucky Cisco Kid
Movie • 1940
Minor Role
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Movie • 1940
Laboratory Technician
All the King's Men
Movie • 1949
Politician (uncredited)
Girl in Danger
Movie • 1934
Police Sgt. Rollins (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie • 1936
Pat O'Malley - Pago Pago Patron
The Glass Key
Movie • 1942
Politician (uncredited)
American Madness
Movie • 1932
Reg'lar Fellers
Movie • 1941
Mr. Dugan Sr.
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Movie • 1949
Officer Jim
Days of Wine and Roses
Movie • 1963
Tenant (uncredited)
Wolf Call
Movie • 1939
RCMP Sergeant
Parachute Jumper
Movie • 1933
Pilot (uncredited)
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Movie • 1940
Editor Gunnigan
Remember the Night
Movie • 1940
Jury Member (uncredited)
The Saint's Double Trouble
Movie • 1940
Express Man (uncredited)
Speed Madness
Movie • 1932
McCarey
Love on a Budget
Movie • 1938
Townsman
My Old Dutch
Movie • 1926
Joe Brown
High Tension
Movie • 1936
Ship's Mate
Emergency Squad
Movie • 1940
Fire Captain
Night Life in Reno
Movie • 1931
District Attorney
Anybody's Blonde
Movie • 1931
Reporter
Pals of the Pecos
Movie • 1941
Dan Burke
This Gun for Hire
Movie • 1942
Conductor (uncredited)
Over My Dead Body
Movie • 1942
Petie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)
The Whistler
Movie • 1944
Police Detective in Alley (Uncredited)
Romance of the Redwoods
Movie • 1939
Yerkes
Murder in the Big House
Movie • 1942
Guard (uncredited)
My Wild Irish Rose
Movie • 1922
Conn, The Shaughraun
Gentleman Jim
Movie • 1942
Detective (uncredited)
The House Across the Bay
Movie • 1940
Prison Guard
The Bank Dick
Movie • 1940
Cop (uncredited)
Little Nellie Kelly
Movie • 1940
Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
East of the River
Movie • 1940
Policeman (uncredited)
Castle on the Hudson
Movie • 1940
Guard (uncredited)
A Dispatch from Reuters
Movie • 1940
Laborer (uncredited)
Rocky Mountain Rangers
Movie • 1940
Captain Taylor
Girl in 313
Movie • 1940
Bartender
The Virginian
Movie • 1923
Steve
The Teaser
Movie • 1925
James McDonald
Music for Madame
Movie • 1937
Policeman (Uncredited)
Redhead from Manhattan
Movie • 1943
Cop
The Shadow of the Eagle
Movie • 1932
Ames
Attorney for the Defense
Movie • 1932
Dr. Strong
Cracked Nuts
Movie • 1941
Officer #1
Gang Busters
Movie • 1942
Police Chemist Crandall
The Racket Man
Movie • 1944
Postman
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Movie • 1942
Jonathan Taylor
Honky Tonk
Movie • 1941
Party Guest (uncredited)
Happiness
Movie • 1924
Fermoy MacDonough
Dinty
Movie • 1920
Jack North
Blonde Inspiration
Movie • 1941
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
The Costume Falls
Movie • 1931
Blue, White, and Perfect
Movie • 1942
Police Sergeant
The Great Mr. Nobody
Movie • 1941
Policeman
Thru Different Eyes
Movie • 1942
Coroner
Steel Against the Sky
Movie • 1941
Construction Worker (uncredited)
Tear Gas Squad
Movie • 1940
Patrolman
Quiet Please, Murder
Movie • 1943
Guard Killed in Library
I Love That Man
Movie • 1933
Prison Interne
The Eternal Struggle
Movie • 1923
Bucky O'Harra
Brass
Movie • 1923
Harry Baldwin
Duck Soup
Movie • 1942
Cop
A Fugitive from Justice
Movie • 1940
Policeman (uncredited)
Double Up
Movie • 1943
Jim Bowers
Alias Nick Beal
Movie • 1949
Committee Man
Batman
Movie • 1943
Cop
Destroyer
Movie • 1943
Postman
Mission to Moscow
Movie • 1943
Irish-American in Montage (uncredited)
The Sky Spider
Movie • 1931
Jim Morgan
Gladiola
Movie • 1915
The Love That Lives
Movie • 1917
Jimmy
Crash Donovan
Movie • 1936
Patrolman (uncredited)
The Midnight Sun
Movie • 1926
Grand Duke Sergius of Russia
The Breath of the Gods
Movie • 1920
T. Caraway Dodge
Spangles
Movie • 1926
Dick Hale
False Kisses
Movie • 1921
The Fighting Cub
Movie • 1925
The Fighting American
Movie • 1924
Bill Pendleton
The Red Glove
Movie • 1919
Kern Thodes (early chapters)
The Mine with the Iron Door
Movie • 1924
Hugh Edwards
The Killer That Stalked New York
Movie • 1950
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Public Hero Number 1
Movie • 1935
Federal Agent (uncredited)
Special Agent
Movie • 1935
Roark (uncredited)
The Man from Colorado
Movie • 1948
Citizen (uncredited)
The Voice of the Violin
Movie • 1915
Small Town Girl
Movie • 1953
Doorman
The Great Hospital Mystery
Movie • 1937
Detective
False Evidence
Movie • 1919
Richard MacTavish (as Patrick O'Malley)
The Fighting Marshal
Movie • 1931
Deputy Ed Myers
Trouble for Two
Movie • 1936
Purser (Uncredited)
Fools Highway
Movie • 1924
Mike Kildare
All for Old Ireland
Movie • 1915
Invisible Stripes
Movie • 1939
Jailhouse Lieutenant with Capt. Johnson (uncredited)
Everything I Have Is Yours
Movie • 1952
Conductor (Uncredited)
One Mysterious Night
Movie • 1944
Police Sergeant (Uncredited)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Movie • 1916
Sybil Vane
Call Her Savage
Movie • 1932
Fireman (Uncredited)
A Game Chicken
Movie • 1922
Rush Thompson
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Movie • 1933
Plainclothesman (Uncredited)
The Blooming Angel
Movie • 1920
Chester Framm
The Missing Juror
Movie • 1944
Priest (uncredited)
Perils of Pauline
Movie • 1933
Tim Sullivan
Before Dawn
Movie • 1933
Detective Brady (uncredited)
Mule Train
Movie • 1950
Charley Stewart (uncredited)
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Movie • 1949
Deputy Marshal (uncredited)
The Fighting Gentleman
Movie • 1932
Dot Moran
The Big Steal
Movie • 1949
Purser (uncredited)
Her Boy
Movie • 1918
Charlie Turner
Hit-the-Trail Holliday
Movie • 1918
Kent B. Wurst
Parnell
Movie • 1937
Irishman
Morning Glory
Movie • 1933
Actor (uncredited)
Two Yanks in Trinidad
Movie • 1942
Lieutenant (uncredited)
Pleasure Before Business
Movie • 1927
Worldly Goods
Movie • 1924
Fred Hopper
She Hired a Husband
Movie • 1918
Tom Dunstan
The Breaking Point
Movie • 1921
Phillip Bradley
The Ten Dollar Raise
Movie • 1921
Jimmy
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Movie • 1932
Broadcast Sergeant (uncredited)
Watch Your Wife
Movie • 1926
James Langham
Men of the Hour
Movie • 1935
Police Captain
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Mr. Llewellyn
Highway Patrol
TV • 1955
M Squad
TV • 1957
Mr. Cleary
Black Saddle
TV • 1959
Bowen
State Trooper
TV • 1956
Law of the Plainsman
TV • 1959
Old Man
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Mr. Wilson
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Attendant
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
TV • 1958
Neighbor
Thriller
TV • 1960
The Butler
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Wardrobe Attendant
Maude
TV • 1972
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