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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: Acting

Born: San Francisco, California, USA, 1899-04-18

Died: 1985-09-04

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1922	Moran of the Lady Letty	Deck Hand	65
2	1922	The Ghost Breaker	One of the Ghosts (uncredited)	0
3	1922	Ebb Tide	Islander	0
4	1923	The Ne'er-Do-Well	Clifford	0
5	1923	Woman-Proof	Bill Burleigh	0
6	1924	Shadows of Paris	Louis	0
7	1924	The Sea Hawk	Galley Slave (uncredited)	65
8	1924	The Man Who Came Back	Henry Potter	0
9	1924	The Painted Lady	Luther Smith	0
10	1924	The Roughneck	Jerry Delaney	0
11	1925	The Dancers	Tony	50
12	1925	Havoc	Dick Chappel	0
13	1925	The Iron Horse	Davy Brandon	66
14	1925	Thank You	Kenneth Jamieson	40
15	1925	The Fighting Heart	Denny Bolton	50
16	1926	The Johnstown Flood	Tom O'Day	68
17	1926	Rustlin' for Cupid	Bradley Blatchford	0
18	1926	The Silver Treasure	Nostromo	0
19	1926	Fig Leaves	Adam Smith	58
20	1926	3 Bad Men	Dan O'Malley	68
21	1926	The Blue Eagle	George Darcy	51
22	1927	Is Zat So?	Ed 'Chick' Cowan	0
23	1927	Paid to Love	Crown Prince Michae	60
24	1927	East Side, West Side	John Breen	72
25	1927	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	The Man (Anses)	78
26	1928	Sharp Shooters	George	0
27	1928	Honor Bound	John Oglegree	0
28	1928	Noah's Ark	Travis / Japheth	63
29	1928	Blindfold	Robert Kelly	0
30	1929	True Heaven	Lieutenant Philip Gresson	0
31	1929	Masked Emotions	Bramdlet Dickery	0
32	1929	Salute	Cadet John Randall	47
33	1930	The Lone Star Ranger	Buck Duane	50
34	1930	Rough Romance	Billy West	50
35	1930	The Last of the Duanes	Buck Duane	30
36	1931	Seas Beneath	Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley	54
37	1931	Fair Warning	Whistlin' Dan Barry	0
38	1931	A Holy Terror	Tony Bard aka Woodbury	57
39	1931	Riders of the Purple Sage	Jim Lassiter	0
40	1932	The Rainbow Trail	John Shefford	0
41	1932	The Gay Caballero	Ted Radcliffe	0
42	1932	Mystery Ranch	Bob Sanborn	60
43	1932	The Golden West	David Lynch / Motano	40
44	1932	Robbers' Roost	Jim Wall	55
45	1933	Smoke Lightning	Smoke Mason	35
46	1933	Life in the Raw	Jim Barry	0
47	1933	The Last Trail	Tom Daley	0
48	1934	Frontier Marshal	Michael Wyatt	55
49	1934	Ever Since Eve	Neil Rogers	0
50	1934	The Dude Ranger	Ernest 'Dude' Selby	58
51	1935	When a Man's a Man	Larry Knight	43
52	1935	The Cowboy Millionaire	Bob Walker	60
53	1935	Whispering Smith Speaks	Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith	0
54	1935	Hard Rock Harrigan	Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan	30
55	1935	Thunder Mountain	Kal Emerson	0
56	1936	O'Malley of the Mounted	Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard	0
57	1936	The Border Patrolman	Bob Wallace	58
58	1936	Daniel Boone	Daniel Boone	46
59	1937	Park Avenue Logger	Grant Curran	60
60	1937	Hollywood Cowboy	Jeffery Carson	50
61	1937	Windjammer	Bruce Lane	50
62	1938	Gun Law	Tom O'Malley	45
63	1938	Border G-Man	Jim Galloway	50
64	1938	Painted Desert	Bob McVey	58
65	1938	The Renegade Ranger	Captain Jack Steele	52
66	1938	Lawless Valley	Larry Rhodes	50
67	1939	Arizona Legion	Boone Yeager	50
68	1939	Trouble in Sundown	Clint Bradford	0
69	1939	Racketeers of the Range	Barney O'Dell	62
70	1939	Timber Stampede	Scott Baylor	0
71	1939	The Fighting Gringo	Wade Barton	60
72	1939	The Marshal Of Mesa City	Cliff Mason	80
73	1940	Legion of the Lawless	Jeff Toland	52
74	1940	Bullet Code	Steve Holden	56
75	1940	Prairie Law	Brill Austin	55
76	1940	Stage to Chino	Dan Clark	48
77	1940	Triple Justice	Brad Henderson	60
78	1943	December 7th	Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)	58
79	1947	My Wild Irish Rose	'Duke' Muldoon	60
80	1948	Fort Apache	Capt. Sam Collingwood	70
81	1949	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	Maj. Mac Allshard	69
82	1951	Gold Raiders	George O'Brien	57
83	1959	Korea	Narrator	60
84	1961	The 10 from Texas	(archive footage)	0
85	1964	Cheyenne Autumn	Major Braden	67
86	1976	Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch	(archive footage)	90
87	2023	The Only Girl in the Orchestra	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	66

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	This Is Your Life	Self	64
2	1954	Studio 57		0