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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.151 |
| Birthday | 1899-04-18 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Also Known As |
1927
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
7.8/818
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1926
3 Bad Men
6.795/39
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
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3 Bad Men
1927
Is Zat So?
0/0
A rich man hires a pair of brothers, one to teach him to box and the other to manage him. Meanwhile, the rich man must fend off his brother-in-law, wh...
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Is Zat So?
1949
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
6.9/363
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be...
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1964
Cheyenne Autumn
6.7/134
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
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Cheyenne Autumn
1922
Ebb Tide
0/0
An old skipper, Captain Davis, has as his companions two derelicts -- one, Huish, is a Cockney, and the other, Robert Herrick was once a gentleman. In...
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Ebb Tide
1948
Fort Apache
7/375
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant,...
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Fort Apache
1932
The Gay Caballero
0/0
Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is re...
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The Gay Caballero
1934
The Dude Ranger
5.7/3
An Easterner Inherits a cattle ranch, only to discover that thousands of cattle have been stolen. He secretly signs on as a hired hand at his own ranc...
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The Dude Ranger
1925
The Iron Horse
6.7/66
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will...
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The Iron Horse
1943
December 7th
5.7/23
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii a...
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December 7th
1936
Daniel Boone
4.923/13
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
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Daniel Boone
1928
Noah's Ark
6.1/16
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
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Noah's Ark
1931
A Holy Terror
5.7/3
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his p...
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A Holy Terror
1927
Paid to Love
6/2
An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore up the country's weak economy in order to maximize the...
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Paid to Love
1929
Salute
4.7/3
A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.
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Salute
1935
The Cowboy Millionaire
6/1
Englishwoman falls for dude ranch cowboy but goes back to England when she thinks he's only pretending. But he follows her to England.
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The Cowboy Millionaire
1938
The Renegade Ranger
5.2/8
Two Texas Rangers have their worlds rocked by a wrongfully accused female bandit.
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The Renegade Ranger
1931
Seas Beneath
5.3/6
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that...
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Seas Beneath
1926
Fig Leaves
5.8/22
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompt...
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Fig Leaves
1926
The Blue Eagle
5.1/7
Waterfront rivals George Darcy and Big Tim Ryan are both in love with Rose Kelly, and continue their feud when they join the Navy. After the war, they...
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The Blue Eagle
1935
When a Man's a Man
6/2
A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying, Cambert refuses to let them have any water. Easterner Lar...
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When a Man's a Man
1927
East Side, West Side
7.2/5
Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that fully exploits star George O’Brien’s championship boxing...
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East Side, West Side
1959
Korea
6/2
An orientation film for American soldiers traveling to Korea in the years after the war.
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Korea
1936
The Border Patrolman
5.8/2
When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico...
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The Border Patrolman
1940
Bullet Code
5.6/5
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has w...
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Bullet Code
1951
Gold Raiders
5.5/2
The Three Stooges travel West where they become heroes by nabbing a gang of would-be robbers.
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Gold Raiders
1976
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
9/1
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1937
Hollywood Cowboy
5/3
Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes a picture and goes camping. Attracted to Joyce But...
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Hollywood Cowboy
1937
Park Avenue Logger
6/1
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan...
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Park Avenue Logger
1937
Windjammer
5/1
The fourth and last of the George A. Hirliman-produced films starring George O'Brien (preceded by "Daniel Boone", "Park Avenue Logger" and "Hollywood...
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Windjammer
1932
Mystery Ranch
6/3
Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice.
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Mystery Ranch
1930
Rough Romance
5/3
Love and logging in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.
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Rough Romance
1929
True Heaven
0/0
Phillip Gresson is in the employ of the British secret service, while heroine Judith is a spy for the Enemy. Hoping to gain possession of the usual Se...
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True Heaven
1926
The Johnstown Flood
6.8/8
A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.
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The Johnstown Flood
1928
Sharp Shooters
0/0
A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his ship to sail. She falls in love with him, and when hi...
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Sharp Shooters
1947
My Wild Irish Rose
6/6
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
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My Wild Irish Rose
1924
The Sea Hawk
6.5/14
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
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The Sea Hawk
1930
The Last of the Duanes
3/1
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of t...
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The Last of the Duanes
1922
Moran of the Lady Letty
6.5/7
Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-too-scrupulous smuggler. When the ship encounters th...
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Moran of the Lady Letty
1932
The Golden West
4/1
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He m...
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The Golden West
1929
Masked Emotions
0/0
Set on the Maine coast, a young sloop skipper Bramdlet Dickery discovers a plot to smuggle alien Chinese into the United States. Bramdlet's younger br...
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Masked Emotions
1933
Life in the Raw
0/0
Adventure ensues as Judy Halloway arrives in Arizona to visit her brother, Tom.
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Life in the Raw
1940
Triple Justice
6/1
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad...
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Triple Justice
1939
Arizona Legion
5/2
A federal agent infiltrates an outlaw band that's taken over a western town.
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Arizona Legion
1934
Ever Since Eve
0/0
Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and falls in love with the rather wild Elizabeth Vandegrift.
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Ever Since Eve
1939
The Marshal Of Mesa City
8/1
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
1938
Painted Desert
5.8/4
A cowboy and a bandit face off over possession of a valuable mine.
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Painted Desert
1936
O'Malley of the Mounted
0/0
O'Malley pretends to be an outlaw in order to join a gang terrorizing towns along the American border.
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O'Malley of the Mounted
1938
Border G-Man
5/4
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
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Border G-Man
1935
Whispering Smith Speaks
0/0
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determin...
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Whispering Smith Speaks
1939
Timber Stampede
0/0
Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.
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Timber Stampede
1935
Thunder Mountain
0/0
Gold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of cowboys who find a gold mine in "Thunder Mountain", bu...
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Thunder Mountain
1931
Riders of the Purple Sage
0/0
Lassiter's sister was killed and her young daughter taken and raised by outlaws. Years later Lassiter arrives at the Withersteen ranch looking for the...
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Riders of the Purple Sage
1940
Legion of the Lawless
5.2/5
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
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Legion of the Lawless
1935
Hard Rock Harrigan
3/1
The plot revolves around a rivalry between sand-hog "Hard Rock" Harrigan (O'Brien) and his foreman Black Jack Riley. At the center of their conflict...
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Hard Rock Harrigan
1938
Lawless Valley
5/1
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.
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Lawless Valley
1939
Trouble in Sundown
0/0
The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination. Clint...
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Trouble in Sundown
1934
Frontier Marshal
5.5/2
Thinly veiled reworking of the Wyatt Earp story with the renamed Michael Wyatt rolling into Tombstone, becoming acquainted, teaming up, and cleaning u...
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Frontier Marshal
1925
Havoc
0/0
A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry Wallace it chronicles two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George...
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Havoc
1924
Shadows of Paris
0/0
A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.
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Shadows of Paris
1926
Rustlin' for Cupid
0/0
Bradley Blatchford, returning to his father's ranch from college, meets Sybil Hamilton, who is coming to the ranch town as a schoolteacher. Later, Bra...
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Rustlin' for Cupid
1926
The Silver Treasure
0/0
Nostromo is the foreman of longshoremen in a South American Republic, and they are to load the cargo of silver that is to come from the San Tome mine....
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The Silver Treasure
1928
Blindfold
0/0
Blindfold is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Charles Klein and written by Ewart Adamson, Robert Horwood and William Kernell....
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Blindfold
1922
The Ghost Breaker
0/0
A young man and his manservant, escaping from a backwoods family feud, are persuaded by a beautiful young heiress to help her rid her newly-gained Spa...
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The Ghost Breaker
1925
The Fighting Heart
5/1
This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully only to meet him later in the boxing ring in New...
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The Fighting Heart
1925
Thank You
4/2
Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay on a chicken farm in the small village of Dedham....
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Thank You
1938
Gun Law
4.5/2
Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved - of his horse, clothes and water. When he catches up to Raven, he finds him dying from dri...
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Gun Law
1925
The Dancers
5/1
Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in search of his fortune. He soon becomes the owner of a s...
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The Dancers
1933
The Last Trail
0/0
Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping from a posse, the "good bad...
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The Last Trail
1932
Robbers' Roost
5.5/2
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sis...
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Robbers' Roost
1939
Racketeers of the Range
6.2/3
A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent meat packer. Barney O'Dell, owner of the largest ranc...
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Racketeers of the Range
1940
Stage to Chino
4.8/3
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
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Stage to Chino
1923
The Ne'er-Do-Well
0/0
A lost film.
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The Ne'er-Do-Well
1923
Woman-Proof
0/0
At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
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Woman-Proof
1930
The Lone Star Ranger
5/1
After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which he committed. In order to prove his innocence, he...
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The Lone Star Ranger
1931
Fair Warning
0/0
This George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix vehicle The Untamed. Cast as devil-may-car Whistli...
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Fair Warning
1939
The Fighting Gringo
6/1
A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder.
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The Fighting Gringo
1961
The 10 from Texas
0/0
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The 10 from Texas
1924
The Roughneck
0/0
Beautiful Felicity Arden, is forced by a storm to take refuge in Mad Marrat's dwelling on the South Sea Isle.
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The Roughneck
1933
Smoke Lightning
3.5/2
After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to Blake’s young daughter. But the Sheriff is after...
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Smoke Lightning
1940
Prairie Law
5.5/2
Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef. When the Sheriff accuses butcher Gore of possessi...
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Prairie Law
1928
Honor Bound
0/0
When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisio...
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Honor Bound
1932
The Rainbow Trail
0/0
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
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The Rainbow Trail
1924
The Man Who Came Back
0/0
Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father...
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The Man Who Came Back
1924
The Painted Lady
0/0
After being released from imprisonment for a crime committed by her sister, Violet is forced to become a woman of easy virtue, and on an excursion to...
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The Painted Lady
2023
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
6.597/36
Trailblazing double bassist Orin O'Brien never wanted the spotlight, but when Leonard Bernstein hired her in 1966 as the first female musician in the...
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