George O'Brien
Birthday: 1899-04-18
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
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.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...
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Is Zat So?
A rich man hires a pair of brothers, one to teach him to box and the other to manage him. Meanwhile,...
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massi...
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Cheyenne Autumn
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne....
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Ebb Tide
An old skipper, Captain Davis, has as his companions two derelicts -- one, Huish, is a Cockney, and ...
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Fort Apache
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military hon...
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The Gay Caballero
Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle...
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The Dude Ranger
An Easterner Inherits a cattle ranch, only to discover that thousands of cattle have been stolen. He...
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The Iron Horse
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to su...
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December 7th
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering ...
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Daniel Boone
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites....
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Noah's Ark
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World...
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A Holy Terror
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may ...
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Paid to Love
An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore up th...
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The Cowboy Millionaire
Englishwoman falls for dude ranch cowboy but goes back to England when she thinks he's only pretendi...
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The Renegade Ranger
Two Texas Rangers have their worlds rocked by a wrongfully accused female bandit....
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Seas Beneath
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarin...
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Fig Leaves
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally me...
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The Blue Eagle
Waterfront rivals George Darcy and Big Tim Ryan are both in love with Rose Kelly, and continue their...
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When a Man's a Man
A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying, Cambert...
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East Side, West Side
Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that fully ...
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Korea
An orientation film for American soldiers traveling to Korea in the years after the war....
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The Border Patrolman
When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire hi...
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Bullet Code
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the ...
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Gold Raiders
The Three Stooges travel West where they become heroes by nabbing a gang of would-be robbers....
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features....
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Hollywood Cowboy
Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes ...
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Park Avenue Logger
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his...
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Windjammer
The fourth and last of the George A. Hirliman-produced films starring George O'Brien (preceded by "D...
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Mystery Ranch
Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice....
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True Heaven
Phillip Gresson is in the employ of the British secret service, while heroine Judith is a spy for th...
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Sharp Shooters
A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his shi...
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The Sea Hawk
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Mo...
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The Last of the Duanes
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He fi...
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Moran of the Lady Letty
Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-to...
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The Golden West
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David k...
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Masked Emotions
Set on the Maine coast, a young sloop skipper Bramdlet Dickery discovers a plot to smuggle alien Chi...
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Life in the Raw
Adventure ensues as Judy Halloway arrives in Arizona to visit her brother, Tom....
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Triple Justice
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill...
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Arizona Legion
A federal agent infiltrates an outlaw band that's taken over a western town....
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Ever Since Eve
Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and falls i...
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption....
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O'Malley of the Mounted
O'Malley pretends to be an outlaw in order to join a gang terrorizing towns along the American borde...
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Border G-Man
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horse...
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Whispering Smith Speaks
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. ...
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Thunder Mountain
Gold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of cowb...
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Lassiter's sister was killed and her young daughter taken and raised by outlaws. Years later Lassite...
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Legion of the Lawless
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way...
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Hard Rock Harrigan
The plot revolves around a rivalry between sand-hog "Hard Rock" Harrigan (O'Brien) and his foreman B...
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Lawless Valley
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him....
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Trouble in Sundown
The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John a...
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Frontier Marshal
Thinly veiled reworking of the Wyatt Earp story with the renamed Michael Wyatt rolling into Tombston...
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Havoc
A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry Wallace i...
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Shadows of Paris
A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris....
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Rustlin' for Cupid
Bradley Blatchford, returning to his father's ranch from college, meets Sybil Hamilton, who is comin...
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The Silver Treasure
Nostromo is the foreman of longshoremen in a South American Republic, and they are to load the cargo...
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Blindfold
Blindfold is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Charles Klein and written by ...
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The Ghost Breaker
A young man and his manservant, escaping from a backwoods family feud, are persuaded by a beautiful ...
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The Fighting Heart
This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully...
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Thank You
Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay...
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Gun Law
Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved - of his horse, clothes and water. When h...
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The Dancers
Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in searc...
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The Last Trail
Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti...
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Robbers' Roost
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to r...
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Racketeers of the Range
A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent mea...
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Stage to Chino
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the ...
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The Ne'er-Do-Well
Disgusted with his spendthrift son, Kirk Anthony's father has Kirk shanghaied and taken to Panama, w...
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The Lone Star Ranger
After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which...
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Fair Warning
This George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix ...
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The Fighting Gringo
A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder....
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The Roughneck
Beautiful Felicity Arden, is forced by a storm to take refuge in Mad Marrat's dwelling on the South ...
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Smoke Lightning
After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to...
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Prairie Law
Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef....
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Honor Bound
When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes ...
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The Rainbow Trail
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's ...
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The Man Who Came Back
Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace th...
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The Painted Lady
After being released from imprisonment for a crime committed by her sister, Violet is forced to beco...
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The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Trailblazing double bassist Orin O'Brien never wanted the spotlight, but when Leonard Bernstein hire...
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