George O'Brien

George O'Brien1899 - 1985

usually

Actor

Popularity

1.5

Famous

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.

Credits

The Only Girl in the Orchestra
The Only Girl in the Orchestra

2023

Documentary • Music

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.7
2.5
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

1976

Comedy • Family • Western

as (archive footage)

9
0.3
Cheyenne Autumn
Cheyenne Autumn

1964

Western

as Major Braden

6.7
1.3
The 10 from Texas
The 10 from Texas

1961

Documentary

as (archive footage)

0
0.1
Korea
Korea

1959

Documentary

as Narrator

6
0.4
Gold Raiders
Gold Raiders

1951

Comedy • Western

as George O'Brien

5.5
0.2
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949

Western

as Maj. Mac Allshard

6.9
0.9
Fort Apache
Fort Apache

1948

Western

as Capt. Sam Collingwood

7
1.3
My Wild Irish Rose
My Wild Irish Rose

1947

Music

as 'Duke' Muldoon

6
0.1
December 7th
December 7th

1943

Action • History • War

as Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)

5.8
0.5
Triple Justice
Triple Justice

1940

Drama • Music • Romance • Western

as Brad Henderson

6
0.2
Stage to Chino
Stage to Chino

1940

Western

as Dan Clark

4.8
0.2
Prairie Law
Prairie Law

1940

Western

as Brill Austin

5.5
0.6
Bullet Code
Bullet Code

1940

Western

as Steve Holden

5.6
0.3
Legion of the Lawless
Legion of the Lawless

1940

Western

as Jeff Toland

5.2
0.2
The Marshal Of Mesa City
The Marshal Of Mesa City

1939

Western

as Cliff Mason

8
0.1
The Fighting Gringo
The Fighting Gringo

1939

Western

as Wade Barton

6
0.1
Timber Stampede
Timber Stampede

1939

Western

as Scott Baylor

0
0.2
Racketeers of the Range
Racketeers of the Range

1939

Western

as Barney O'Dell

6.2
0.1
Trouble in Sundown
Trouble in Sundown

1939

Western

as Clint Bradford

0
0.2
Arizona Legion
Arizona Legion

1939

Romance • Western

as Boone Yeager

5
0.2
Lawless Valley
Lawless Valley

1938

Romance • Western

as Larry Rhodes

5
0.3
The Renegade Ranger
The Renegade Ranger

1938

Western

as Captain Jack Steele

5.2
0.3
Painted Desert
Painted Desert

1938

Romance • Western

as Bob McVey

5.8
0.2
Border G-Man
Border G-Man

1938

Western

as Jim Galloway

5
0.2
Gun Law
Gun Law

1938

Action • Adventure • Music • Romance • Western

as Tom O'Malley

4.5
0.1
Windjammer
Windjammer

1937

Action • Adventure

as Bruce Lane

5
0.5
Hollywood Cowboy
Hollywood Cowboy

1937

Action • Adventure • Western

as Jeffery Carson

5
0.3
Park Avenue Logger
Park Avenue Logger

1937

Action • Drama • Romance

as Grant Curran

6
0.3
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone

1936

Western

as Daniel Boone

4.9
1.2
The Border Patrolman
The Border Patrolman

1936

Western

as Bob Wallace

5.8
0.1
O'Malley of the Mounted
O'Malley of the Mounted

1936

Drama • Western

as Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard

0
0.1
Thunder Mountain
Thunder Mountain

1935

Western

as Kal Emerson

0
0.1
Hard Rock Harrigan
Hard Rock Harrigan

1935

Adventure

as Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan

3
0.1
Whispering Smith Speaks
Whispering Smith Speaks

1935

Action • Adventure • Romance • Western

as Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith

0
0.1
The Cowboy Millionaire
The Cowboy Millionaire

1935

Action • Adventure • Western

as Bob Walker

6
0.2
When a Man's a Man
When a Man's a Man

1935

Western

as Larry Knight

6
0.1
The Dude Ranger
The Dude Ranger

1934

Action • Western

as Ernest 'Dude' Selby

5.7
0.1
Ever Since Eve
Ever Since Eve

1934

Drama • Romance

as Neil Rogers

0
0.1
Frontier Marshal
Frontier Marshal

1934

Western

as Michael Wyatt

5.5
0.3
The Last Trail
The Last Trail

1933

Western

as Tom Daley

0
0.1
Life in the Raw
Life in the Raw

1933

Western

as Jim Barry

0
0.2
Smoke Lightning
Smoke Lightning

1933

as Smoke Mason

3.5
0.4
Robbers' Roost
Robbers' Roost

1932

Action • Adventure • Romance • Western

as Jim Wall

5.5
0.2
The Golden West
The Golden West

1932

Western

as David Lynch / Motano

4
0.1
Mystery Ranch
Mystery Ranch

1932

Horror • Mystery • Western

as Bob Sanborn

6
0.2
The Gay Caballero
The Gay Caballero

1932

Western

as Ted Radcliffe

0
0.2
The Rainbow Trail
The Rainbow Trail

1932

Action • Adventure • Drama • Romance • Western

as John Shefford

0
0.2
Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage

1931

Western

as Jim Lassiter

0
0.2
A Holy Terror
A Holy Terror

1931

Action • Adventure • Western

as Tony Bard aka Woodbury

5.7
0.2
Fair Warning
Fair Warning

1931

Western

as Whistlin' Dan Barry

0
0.2
Seas Beneath
Seas Beneath

1931

Action • Drama • War

as Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley

5.4
0.3
The Last of the Duanes
The Last of the Duanes

1930

Action • Adventure • Romance • Western

as Buck Duane

3
0.1
Rough Romance
Rough Romance

1930

Adventure • Western

as Billy West

5
0.2
The Lone Star Ranger
The Lone Star Ranger

1930

Western

as Buck Duane

5
0.2
Salute
Salute

1929

Drama • Romance

as Cadet John Randall

4.7
0.3
Masked Emotions
Masked Emotions

1929

Crime • Drama

as Bramdlet Dickery

0
0.1
True Heaven
True Heaven

1929

Drama • War

as Lieutenant Philip Gresson

0
0.1
Blindfold
Blindfold

1928

Drama

as Robert Kelly

0
0.2
Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark

1928

Drama • War

as Travis / Japheth

6.1
1.3
Honor Bound
Honor Bound

1928

Drama

as John Oglegree

0
0.3
Sharp Shooters
Sharp Shooters

1928

Comedy

as George

0
0.3
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927

Drama • Romance

as The Man (Anses)

7.8
1.9
East Side, West Side
East Side, West Side

1927

Drama • Romance

as John Breen

7.2
0.1
Paid to Love
Paid to Love

1927

Comedy • Romance

as Crown Prince Michae

6
0.1
Is Zat So?
Is Zat So?

1927

Comedy

as Ed 'Chick' Cowan

0
0.1
The Blue Eagle
The Blue Eagle

1926

Action • Drama

as George Darcy

5.1
0.2
3 Bad Men
3 Bad Men

1926

Romance • Western

as Dan O'Malley

6.8
0.4
Fig Leaves
Fig Leaves

1926

Comedy

as Adam Smith

5.8
0.3
The Silver Treasure
The Silver Treasure

1926

Action • Drama

as Nostromo

0
0.1
Rustlin' for Cupid
Rustlin' for Cupid

1926

Romance • Western

as Bradley Blatchford

0
0.1
The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood

1926

Drama

as Tom O'Day

6.8
0.2
The Fighting Heart
The Fighting Heart

1925

Drama • Romance

as Denny Bolton

5
0.1
Thank You
Thank You

1925

Comedy • Drama

as Kenneth Jamieson

4
0.3
The Iron Horse
The Iron Horse

1925

Drama • History • Romance • Western

as Davy Brandon

6.6
0.7
Havoc
Havoc

1925

Drama • War

as Dick Chappel

0
0.4
The Dancers
The Dancers

1925

Drama

as Tony

5
0.4
The Roughneck
The Roughneck

1924

Action • Adventure • Romance

as Jerry Delaney

0
0.2
The Painted Lady
The Painted Lady

1924

Drama

as Luther Smith

0
0.1
The Man Who Came Back
The Man Who Came Back

1924

Drama

as Henry Potter

0
0.6
The Sea Hawk
The Sea Hawk

1924

Adventure • Drama • Romance

as Galley Slave (uncredited)

6.5
0.2
Shadows of Paris
Shadows of Paris

1924

Drama

as Louis

0
0.1
Woman-Proof
Woman-Proof

1923

Comedy

as Bill Burleigh

0
0.3
The Ne'er-Do-Well
The Ne'er-Do-Well

1923

Comedy

as Clifford

0
0.1
Ebb Tide
Ebb Tide

1922

Adventure • Drama

as Islander

0
0.5
The Ghost Breaker
The Ghost Breaker

1922

Comedy • Horror

as One of the Ghosts (uncredited)

0
0.1
Moran of the Lady Letty
Moran of the Lady Letty

1922

Adventure

as Deck Hand

6.5
0.2

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