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