Eugene O'Brien
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 14, 1880
- Died
- April 29, 1966 (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- Boulder, Colorado, USA
Biography
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
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Faithless Lover
Movie · as Austin Kent
The Romantic Age
Movie · as Stephen Winslow
Flames
Movie · as Herbert Landis
Fine Manners
Movie · as Brian Alden
Souls for Sables
Movie · as Fred Garlan
Siege
Movie · as Kenyon Ruyland
Dangerous Innocence
Movie · as Major Seymour
Graustark
Movie · as Grenfall Lorry
Secrets
Movie · as John Carlton
The Only Woman
Movie · as Rex Herrington
The Voice from the Minaret
Movie · as Andrew Fabian
John Smith
Movie · as John Smith
Channing of the Northwest
Movie · as Channing
The Prophet's Paradise
Movie · as Howard Anderson
Clay Dollars
Movie · as Bruce Edwards
The Last Door
Movie · as The Magnet
Gilded Lies
Movie · as Keene McComb
Worlds Apart
Movie · as Hugh Ledyard
Is Life Worth Living?
Movie · as Melville Marley
The Wonderful Chance
Movie · as Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
His Wife's Money
Movie · as Richard Flint
A Fool and His Money
Movie · as John B. Smart
Broadway and Home
Movie · as Michael Strange
The Figurehead
Movie · as Sheridan Dow
Sealed Hearts
Movie · as Jack Prentiss
The Broken Melody
Movie · as Stewart Grant
Fires of Faith
Movie · as Harry Hammond, a Broker
The Perfect Lover
Movie · as Brian Lazar
Come Out of the Kitchen
Movie · as Burton Crane
Under the Greenwood Tree
Movie · as Jack Hutton
The Spirit That Wins
Movie · as The Soldier
A Romance of the Underworld
Movie · as Thomas McDonald
The Safety Curtain
Movie · as Captain Merryon
The Ghosts of Yesterday
Movie · as Howard Marston
Her Only Way
Movie · as Joseph Marshall
By Right of Purchase
Movie · as Chadwick Himes
De Luxe Annie
Movie · as Jimmy Fitzpatrick
Little Miss Hoover
Movie · as Major Adam Baldwin
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Movie · as Adam Ladd
Poppy
Movie · as Sir Evelyn Carson
The Moth
Movie · as Cpt. Bridgey
The Return of Eve
Movie · as Adam
The Chaperon
Movie · as Jim Ogden
Poor Little Peppina
Movie · as Hugh Carroll
The Rise of Susan
Movie · as Clavering Gordon
The Scarlet Woman
Movie · as Robert Blake
The Moonstone
Movie · as Franklin Blake
Just Out of College
Movie · as Edward Worthington Swinger