Robert Emmett O'Connor
Birthday: 1885-03-18
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Emmett O'Connor (March 18, 1885 – September 4, 1962) was an American film actor. He appeared in 204 films between 1919 and 1950. He is probably best known as the warmhearted bootlegger Paddy Ryan in The Public Enemy (1931) and as Detective Sergeant Henderson pursuing the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera (1935). He also appeared as Jonesy (the older Paramount gate guard) in Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, as well as made a cameo appearance at the very beginning and very end of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short Who Killed Who? (1943).
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American Madness
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbi...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irri...
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A Star Is Born
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Blonde Venus
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Penthouse
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Framed
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Lady for a Day
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Blessed Event
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Air Raid Wardens
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A Night at the Opera
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Return of the Terror
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The Mysterious Mr. Wong
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The Big House
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The Public Enemy
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life...
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Picture Snatcher
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Midnight Mary
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Whistling in Brooklyn
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The Dark Horse
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The Big Shakedown
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The Kid from Spain
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Trapped by G-Men
Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men....
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The Crime Nobody Saw
Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment....
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Don't Bet on Love
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Reckless Living
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The Singing Fool
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Boys' Ranch
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Park Avenue Logger
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Boy of the Streets
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The Big Timer
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Up the River
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Drink Hearty
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The Arm of the Law
A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved i...
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The Hucksters
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be...
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Till the Clouds Roll By
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs fro...
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Three Who Loved
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Anchors Aweigh
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Night World
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The Big Fight
Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jac...
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Two Kinds of Women
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Desire
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his v...
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Frisco Jenny
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After gi...
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Man to Man
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The Single Sin
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Alias French Gertie
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Weary River
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The Lone Wolf Returns
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanya...
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At Sea Ashore
Patsy's working at Rumplemeyer's Donut Shop in Brooklyn. By accident she catches Mr. Rumplemeyer's t...
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Gentle Annie
The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the c...
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We Who Are About to Die
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sente...
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Wells Fargo
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Waikiki Wedding
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New Faces of 1937
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Bottoms Up
Three smart film-flammers help a homeless little girl to love and happiness by making monkeys out of...
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Stolen Harmony
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to ...
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The Public Defender
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled...
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Fanny Foley Herself
A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughter...
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Professor Beware
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join...
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Sergeant Madden
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Star of Midnight
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Main Street After Dark
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The Lone Wolf Strikes
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Meet Me in St. Louis
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The Noose
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Who Killed Who?
A murder has occurred at Gruesome Gables, and the dog detective trying to find the killer has to dea...
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Tenth Avenue Angel
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The Human Comedy
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I Take This Oath
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers....
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Merton of the Movies
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In the Next Room
The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's l...
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Jailbreak
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars....
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The Hoodlum Saint
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's m...
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Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...
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Waterfront Lady
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No Time for Comedy
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success....
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Dance, Girl, Dance
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Dressed to Kill
A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn'...
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Diamond Jim
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady....
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Jackass Mail
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father....
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Sinner Take All
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing f...
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The Great American Mug
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout ...
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Paid
Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plot...
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His Royal Slyness
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station....
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Taxi!
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a...
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Double Alibi
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect....
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The Romance of Rosy Ridge
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest....
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Our Blushing Brides
Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while...
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A Wicked Woman
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's cond...
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Bed of Roses
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin....
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Week-End Marriage
In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner....
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Courage of Lassie
Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopte...
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They Were Expendable
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat...
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Gabriel Over the White House
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis...
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The Beast of the City
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his police detective brother Ed...
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Barbary Coast Gent
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and ...
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Easter Parade
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affec...
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The Harvey Girls
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young wo...
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The Clock
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City....
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed hi...
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Super-Sleuth
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-li...
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Shoe Shine Boy
A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase ...
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Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne...
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Return from Nowhere
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to r...
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The Greatest Gift
Medieval French monks find a freezing, ill juggler and take him in. Upon recovering, the impoverishe...
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Tin Gods
In a mountain village in South America, Dr. McCoy and the padre watch Roger Drake enter a small chap...
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A Fugitive from Justice
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the ru...
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Best Foot Forward
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to ...
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A Gun in His Hand
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the to...
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challe...
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Undercurrent
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his...
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfacti...
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder...
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Freedom of the Press
When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with...
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Four Walls
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz...
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Streets of New York
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of ma...
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Swing Shift Maisie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in...
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Maisie Gets Her Man
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a b...
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Up Goes Maisie
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas....
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Hot Steel
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Tro...
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The Isle of Lost Ships
The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitap...
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Smiling Irish Eyes
A pretty, young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway f...
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen ...
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High Barbaree
After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while a...
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The Last Train from Madrid
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War....
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The Thin Man Goes Home
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation....
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The Big Brain
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As h...
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White Lies
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else...
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