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person_profile-Eugene O'Brien

Eugene O'Brien Died at age: 85

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Nov 14, 1880

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Apr 29, 1966

Biography of

Eugene O'Brien

    From Wikipedia

    Eugene O'Brien (Birthname: Louis O'Brien b. November 14, 1880 in Boulder, Colorado – d. April 29, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) was a silent film star and stage actor. He studied medicine at the University of Colorado at Boulder but was keener on the stage than becoming a doctor. O'Brien switched to civil engineering under his family's guidance, but his heart was still set on becoming an actor. He moved to New York City and was "discovered" by theatrical impresario Charles Frohman who signed O'Brien to a three-year contract and put him in The Builder of Bridges, which opened on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on October 26, 1909. O'Brien made his name playing opposite Ethel Barrymore, in a revival of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play Trelawny of the 'Wells', which opened at the Empire Theatre on New Year's Day, 1911. O'Brien's first film, Essanay Film's The Lieutenant Governor, in which he had the starring role, played in Boulder's Curran Theatre in February 1915, giving his family its first opportunity to see him act.[3][4] World Film Corp. chief executive Lewis J. Selznick made O'Brien a screen star, putting him in an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. Subsequently he was leading man opposite some of the leading female stars of the day, including Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge and Gloria Swanson and became a silent screen matinée idol. He retired from acting when the talkies came in, making his last film, Faithless Lover, in 1928 at 47 years old. For his work on movies, he received a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Filmography of

Eugene O'Brien

Found 28 Movies in total

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1961

The Romantic Age

Stephen Winslow ( Actor )

... 1927

Fine Manners

Brian Alden ( Actor )

... 1926

Graustark

Grenfall Lorry ( Actor )

... 1925

Dangerous Innocence

Major Seymour ( Actor )

... 1925

Souls for Sables

Fred Garlan ( Actor )

... 1925

The Only Woman

Rex Herrington ( Actor )

... 1924

Secrets

John Carlton ( Actor )

... 1924

The Voice from the Minaret

Andrew Fabian ( Actor )

... 1923

John Smith

John Smith ( Actor )

... 1922

Channing of the Northwest

Channing ( Actor )

... 1922

The Last Door

The Magnet ( Actor )

... 1921

The Wonderful Chance

Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow ( Actor )

... 1920

Sealed Hearts

Jack Prentiss ( Actor )

... 1919

Little Miss Hoover

Major Adam Baldwin ( Actor )

... 1918

Under the Greenwood Tree

Jack Hutton ( Actor )

... 1918

Her Only Way

Joseph Marshall ( Actor )

... 1918

The Safety Curtain

Captain Merryon ( Actor )

... 1918

De Luxe Annie

Jimmy Fitzpatrick ( Actor )

... 1918

By Right of Purchase

Chadwick Himes ( Actor )

... 1918

The Ghosts of Yesterday

Howard Marston ( Actor )

... 1918

The Moth

Cpt. Bridgey ( Actor )

... 1917

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Adam Ladd ( Actor )

... 1917

Poppy

Sir Evelyn Carson ( Actor )

... 1917

The Rise of Susan

Clavering Gordon ( Actor )

... 1916

The Return of Eve

Adam ( Actor )

... 1916

Poor Little Peppina

Hugh Carroll ( Actor )

... 1916

... 1915