Edmond O'Brien
Birthday: 1915-09-10
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Edmond O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D.O.A. (1950). His many memorable films included The Killers, White Heat, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Wild Bunch. He also co-starred with Richard Rust in the NBC legal drama Sam Benedict, which aired during the 1962-1963 television season.
Movies
Birdman of Alcatraz
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....
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The Wild Bunch
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappea...
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Fantastic Voyage
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size ...
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White Heat: Top of the World
An examination of "White Heat" (1949) by film historians and critics....
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1984
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by fall...
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Shield for Murder
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money....
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Julius Caesar
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassi...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a sma...
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Seven Days in May
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him....
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beaut...
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The Comedian
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demand...
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no acc...
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The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...
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Backfire
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy S...
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The Barefoot Contessa
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Varga...
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Two of a Kind
A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son....
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The Love God?
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who ...
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The Web
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec bein...
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The Hitch-Hiker
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to...
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A Double Life
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage takin...
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A Cry in the Night
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped....
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The 3rd Voice
Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an...
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The Killers
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, ...
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The Girl Can't Help It
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star withi...
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711 Ocean Drive
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a bet...
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Pete Kelly's Blues
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy unt...
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An Act of Murder
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering....
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The Turning Point
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop fath...
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The Admiral Was a Lady
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her....
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Between Midnight and Dawn
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreake...
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The Last Voyage
The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After...
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They Only Kill Their Masters
An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by th...
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White Heat
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his ol...
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country....
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The Great Impostor
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and w...
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D-Day the Sixth of June
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances ...
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Moon Pilot
An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He im...
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Up Periscope
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been ...
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Man in the Dark
Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it h...
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D.O.A.
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hou...
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99 and 44/100% Dead
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harr...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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The Rack
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In ...
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The Bigamist
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of...
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Task Force
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and ...
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For the Love of Mary
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics....
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Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, t...
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The Hanged Man
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union lead...
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Sylvia
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederic...
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Fighter Squadron
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promo...
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The Redhead and the Cowboy
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets ...
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Synanon
A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House...
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The World Was His Jury
A sea captain stands trial for manslaughter after 162 people are killed in a fire aboard his cruise ...
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Powder Town
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret fo...
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China Venture
American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in...
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Another Part of the Forest
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family go...
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Stopover Tokyo
An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring....
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Denver and Rio Grande
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a...
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Obliging Young Lady
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor...
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Winged Victory
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pi...
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Warpath
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He fin...
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where sh...
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The Shanghai Story
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel b...
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What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of so...
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Isn't It Shocking?
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in...
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Parachute Battalion
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join t...
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The Viscount
Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a ple...
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Sing Boy Sing
The teenage son of a rural preacher becomes a huge Elvis-like rock 'n' roll star, but he has trouble...
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The Intruders
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost b...
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The Big Land
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads...
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The Doomsday Flight
A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will expl...
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River of Mystery
A couple of freelance explosives experts find jungle adventure while being stalked by a revolutionar...
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Jigsaw
In this pilot for the 1972-73 series, a detective specializing in missing persons cases finds himsel...
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Cow Country
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers....
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The Other Side of the Wind
Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad i...
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Something in the Wind
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, ...
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Rio Conchos
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on ...
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Silver City
Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry...
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Dark Stranger
A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out....
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Dream No Evil
Grace is a troubled young lady with some serious daddy issues. She was adopted as a young girl and r...
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The Ambitious One
This Yves Allegret film is set in French Polynesia and stars Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andre...
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Déjà-Vu
A cinematic experience by Douglas Gordon - in which the film D.O.A. is screened simultaneously on th...
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The Outsider
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple ca...
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The Greatest Show on Earth
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though t...
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The Adventures of Gallegher
An energetic newspaper copyboy in 1889 wants to become a reporter, and he is soon more deeply involv...
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The Further Adventures of Gallegher
The young copyboy helps the town’s first female newspaper reporter, who is writing a series on confi...
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The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
Oscar nominated "Making of" documentary about Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch....
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Acad...
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Under Capricorn
A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...
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A Ticket for Thaddeus
A Polish refugee and new citizen gets involved in a slight car accident, but he doesn't fully unders...
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Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
Documentary on the History of Science Fiction Movies from The Day the Earth Stood Still onward....
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