William H. O'Brien

Known for Acting

Details

Birthday: July 19, 1891

Deathday: April 18, 1981

Place of birth: Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Australian born William H. O'Brien began his screen acting career in Australia in 1918, then resumed in Hollywood in 1921. He continued acting in films and television series to 1971.

Actor

1971

Support Your Local Gunfighter

1971

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971

The Todd Killings

1970

Rio Lobo

1970

Airport

1969

Topaz

1969

The Trouble with Girls

1969

The Comic

1967

The Graduate

1967

Valley of the Dolls

1966

Gunpoint

1966

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

1966

Munster, Go Home!

1966

One of Our Spies Is Missing

1963

The Wheeler Dealers

1963

Critic's Choice

1962

Gypsy

1962

To Kill a Mockingbird

1962

Pressure Point

1961

Judgment at Nuremberg

1961

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein

1961

The Children's Hour

1960

Who Was That Lady?

1960

Ocean's Eleven

1960

Elmer Gantry

1960

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

1959

Cry Tough

1959

The Story on Page One

1959

Pillow Talk

1959

Some Like It Hot

1958

Murder by Contract

1958

Money, Women and Guns

1958

The Last Hurrah

1958

Home Before Dark

1957

The Unholy Wife

1957

Chicago Confidential

1957

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1957

The Tattered Dress

1957

Sweet Smell of Success

1957

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

1957

Witness for the Prosecution

1957

Zero Hour!

1957

The Joker is Wild

1957

Bombers B-52

1957

Designing Woman

1957

Carnival Rock

1957

The Helen Morgan Story

1956

There's Always Tomorrow

1956

Around the World in 80 Days

1956

The Harder They Fall

1956

Anything Goes

1955

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

1955

Illegal

1955

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

1955

Battle Cry

1955

The Square Jungle

1955

The Seven Year Itch

1955

It's Always Fair Weather

1955

Daddy Long Legs

1955

New York Confidential

1955

Sincerely Yours

1954

A Star Is Born

1954

The Far Country

1954

Woman's World

1954

Dial M for Murder

1954

Sabrina

1954

The High and the Mighty

1954

Désirée

1954

The Bounty Hunter

1953

Fort Ti

1953

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953

Trouble Along the Way

1953

Julius Caesar

1952

Hong Kong

1952

The Bad and the Beautiful

1952

Carrie

1952

High Noon

1952

The Star

1952

Something to Live For

1952

Horizons West

1951

He Ran All the Way

1951

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

1951

The Strange Door

1951

Bannerline

1951

On the Riviera

1951

Ace in the Hole

1951

A Place in the Sun

1951

A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

Hollywood Story

1951

Superman and the Mole Men

1951

Iron Man

1950

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

1950

Let's Dance

1950

Frenchie

1950

Louisa

1950

Shakedown

1950

All About Eve

1950

Woman in Hiding

1950

The Damned Don't Cry

1950

Father of the Bride

1950

The Men

1949

Alias the Champ

1949

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

1949

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

1949

Special Agent

1949

Once More, My Darling

1949

Johnny Allegro

1949

Flamingo Road

1949

It's a Great Feeling

1949

The Doolins of Oklahoma

1948

Race Street

1948

Jungle Goddess

1948

You Gotta Stay Happy

1948

Sorry, Wrong Number

1947

The Unsuspected

1947

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

1947

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

1947

Ivy

1947

Daisy Kenyon

1947

Body and Soul

1947

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

1947

Road to Rio

1947

I Walk Alone

1947

Undercover Maisie

1946

She-Wolf of London

1946

Do You Love Me

1946

The Hoodlum Saint

1946

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

Undercurrent

1946

Angel on My Shoulder

1946

The Big Sleep

1946

The Time of Their Lives

1946

Dressed to Kill

1946

Nobody Lives Forever

1946

Two Sisters from Boston

1946

Canyon Passage

1945

Lady on a Train

1945

Fallen Angel

1945

The Tiger Woman

1945

The Woman in Green

1945

Hollywood Scout

1945

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1945

The Naughty Nineties

1945

A Song to Remember

1945

Kitty

1944

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1944

In Society

1944

The Climax

1944

The Thin Man Goes Home

1944

Christmas Holiday

1943

Government Girl

1943

No Time for Love

1943

Action in the North Atlantic

1943

Margin for Error

1943

So Proudly We Hail

1943

The Spider Woman

1943

Swing Shift Maisie

1943

The Leopard Man

1942

Lady for a Night

1942

Brooklyn Orchid

1942

Tomorrow We Live

1942

Take a Letter, Darling

1942

The Falcon Takes Over

1942

Maisie Gets Her Man

1941

Ball of Fire

1941

It Started with Eve

1941

Topper Returns

1941

The Blonde from Singapore

1941

Niagara Falls

1941

Citizen Kane

1941

The Feminine Touch

1941

Keep 'Em Flying

1941

Pot o' Gold

1941

Million Dollar Baby

1940

Rebecca

1940

The Earl of Chicago

1940

Edison, the Man

1940

The Showdown

1940

Buck Benny Rides Again

1940

City for Conquest

1940

No Time for Comedy

1940

Hired Wife

1940

A Chump at Oxford

1940

One Night in the Tropics

1940

Turnabout

1940

Captain Caution

1940

Love Thy Neighbor

1940

City of Chance

1940

Curtain Call

1940

Forty Little Mothers

1940

Mexican Spitfire Out West

1940

Hit Parade of 1941

1939

Remember?

1939

Stronger Than Desire

1939

Zorro's Fighting Legion

1939

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

1939

Girl from Rio

1939

That's Right – You're Wrong

1939

Honeymoon in Bali

1939

Eternally Yours

1939

The Man in the Iron Mask

1938

The Rage of Paris

1938

In Old Chicago

1938

Gold Is Where You Find It

1938

Test Pilot

1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938

1937

The Firefly

1937

Wells Fargo

1937

North of the Rio Grande

1937

Dance Charlie Dance

1937

Larceny on the Air

1936

Special Investigator

1936

Champagne Charlie

1936

The Country Doctor

1936

Sing, Baby, Sing

1936

Sinner Take All

1936

San Francisco

1936

The Walking Dead

1935

Shadow of Doubt

1935

The Gay Deception

1935

The Misses Stooge

1935

To Beat the Band

1935

His Family Tree

1935

The Arizonian

1935

Diamond Jim

1935

Go Into Your Dance

1935

The Old Homestead

1935

A Night at the Opera

1935

Vagabond Lady

1934

The Thin Man

1934

Long Lost Father

1934

Hollywood Mystery

1934

Bachelor Bait

1934

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

1933

Big Time Or Bust

1933

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

1933

Only Yesterday

1933

Ex-Lady

1933

Midnight Mary

1932

The Half-Naked Truth

1932

Emma

1932

Red-Headed Woman

1932

Scarface

1932

Pack Up Your Troubles

1932

Faithless

1932

The Wet Parade

1932

Movie Crazy

1932

Merrily We Go to Hell

1931

Five and Ten

1931

Ladies' Man

1931

Men Call It Love

1931

Daybreak

1931

Forgotten Women

1931

The Road to Reno

1931

The Phantom of Paris

1931

Smart Money

1931

Monkey Business

1931

The Guilty Generation

1931

West of Broadway

1931

Dirigible

1931

The Sky Raiders

1931

Little Caesar

1930

Reaching for the Moon

1930

New Moon

1930

Strictly Unconventional

1930

Playboy of Paris

1930

Street of Chance

1930

Anybody's Woman

1930

Children of Pleasure

1930

Let Us Be Gay

1930

Anna Christie

1930

Sin Takes a Holiday

1929

The Trespasser

1928

The Mysterious Lady

1928

While the City Sleeps

1928

The Singing Fool

1928

The Patsy

1928

Captain Swagger

1928

A Woman of Affairs

1928

The Racket

1928

Submarine

1925

The Mad Whirl

1921

The Blot

1919

The Delicious Little Devil