George O'Brien
Acting • Born 1899-04-18 – Died 1985-09-04
Biography
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
89 credits
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Movie • 1927
The Man (Anses)
3 Bad Men
Movie • 1926
Dan O'Malley
Is Zat So?
Movie • 1927
Ed 'Chick' Cowan
Cheyenne Autumn
Movie • 1964
Major Braden
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Movie • 1949
Maj. Mac Allshard
Ebb Tide
Movie • 1922
Islander (uncredited)
Fort Apache
Movie • 1948
Capt. Sam Collingwood
The Gay Caballero
Movie • 1932
Ted Radcliffe
The Dude Ranger
Movie • 1934
Ernest 'Dude' Selby
The Iron Horse
Movie • 1925
Davy Brandon
December 7th
Movie • 1943
Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
Daniel Boone
Movie • 1936
Daniel Boone
Noah's Ark
Movie • 1928
Travis / Japheth
A Holy Terror
Movie • 1931
Tony Bard aka Woodbury
Paid to Love
Movie • 1927
Crown Prince Michae
Salute
Movie • 1929
Cadet John Randall
The Cowboy Millionaire
Movie • 1935
Bob Walker
The Renegade Ranger
Movie • 1938
Captain Jack Steele
Seas Beneath
Movie • 1931
Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley
Fig Leaves
Movie • 1926
Adam Smith
The Blue Eagle
Movie • 1926
George Darcy
When a Man's a Man
Movie • 1935
Larry Knight
East Side, West Side
Movie • 1927
John Breen
Korea
Movie • 1959
Narrator
The Border Patrolman
Movie • 1936
Bob Wallace
Bullet Code
Movie • 1940
Steve Holden
Gold Raiders
Movie • 1951
George O'Brien
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
Hollywood Cowboy
Movie • 1937
Jeffery Carson
Park Avenue Logger
Movie • 1937
Grant Curran
Windjammer
Movie • 1937
Bruce Lane
Mystery Ranch
Movie • 1932
Bob Sanborn
Rough Romance
Movie • 1930
Billy West
True Heaven
Movie • 1929
Lieutenant Philip Gresson
The Johnstown Flood
Movie • 1926
Tom O'Day
Sharp Shooters
Movie • 1928
George
My Wild Irish Rose
Movie • 1947
'Duke' Muldoon
The Sea Hawk
Movie • 1924
Galley Slave (uncredited)
The Last of the Duanes
Movie • 1930
Buck Duane
Moran of the Lady Letty
Movie • 1922
Deck Hand
The Golden West
Movie • 1932
David Lynch / Motano
Life in the Raw
Movie • 1933
Jim Barry
Masked Emotions
Movie • 1929
Bramdlet Dickery
Triple Justice
Movie • 1940
Brad Henderson
Arizona Legion
Movie • 1939
Boone Yeager
Ever Since Eve
Movie • 1934
Neil Rogers
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Movie • 1939
Cliff Mason
Painted Desert
Movie • 1938
Bob McVey
O'Malley of the Mounted
Movie • 1936
Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
Border G-Man
Movie • 1938
Jim Galloway
Whispering Smith Speaks
Movie • 1935
Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
Timber Stampede
Movie • 1939
Scott Baylor
Thunder Mountain
Movie • 1935
Kal Emerson
Riders of the Purple Sage
Movie • 1931
Jim Lassiter
Legion of the Lawless
Movie • 1940
Jeff Toland
Hard Rock Harrigan
Movie • 1935
Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
Lawless Valley
Movie • 1938
Larry Rhodes
Trouble in Sundown
Movie • 1939
Clint Bradford
Frontier Marshal
Movie • 1934
Michael Wyatt
Havoc
Movie • 1925
Dick Chappel
Shadows of Paris
Movie • 1924
Louis
Rustlin' for Cupid
Movie • 1926
Bradley Blatchford
The Silver Treasure
Movie • 1926
Nostromo
The Ghost Breaker
Movie • 1922
One of the Ghosts (uncredited)
Blindfold
Movie • 1928
Robert Kelly
The Fighting Heart
Movie • 1925
Denny Bolton
Thank You
Movie • 1925
Kenneth Jamieson
Gun Law
Movie • 1938
Tom O'Malley
The Dancers
Movie • 1925
Tony
The Last Trail
Movie • 1933
Tom Daley
Robbers' Roost
Movie • 1932
Jim Wall
Racketeers of the Range
Movie • 1939
Barney O'Dell
The Ne'er-Do-Well
Movie • 1923
Clifford
Stage to Chino
Movie • 1940
Dan Clark
Woman-Proof
Movie • 1923
Bill Burleigh
The Lone Star Ranger
Movie • 1930
Buck Duane
Fair Warning
Movie • 1931
Whistlin' Dan Barry
The Fighting Gringo
Movie • 1939
Wade Barton
The 10 from Texas
Movie • 1961
(archive footage)
The Roughneck
Movie • 1924
Jerry Delaney
Smoke Lightning
Movie • 1933
Smoke Mason
Prairie Law
Movie • 1940
Brill Austin
Honor Bound
Movie • 1928
John Oglegree
The Rainbow Trail
Movie • 1932
John Shefford
The Man Who Came Back
Movie • 1924
Henry Potter
The Painted Lady
Movie • 1924
Luther Smith
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
This Is Your Life
TV • 1952
Self
Studio 57
TV • 1954