William H. O'Brien
Born: 1891-07-19
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.
Known For
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938★ 6.3
High Noon
1952★ 7.7
Christmas Holiday
1944★ 6.4
Sabrina
1954★ 7.5
Citizen Kane
1941★ 8.0
The Graduate
1967★ 7.6
Some Like It Hot
1959★ 8.1
Ocean's Eleven
1960★ 6.4
No Time for Love
1943★ 6.8
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962★ 8.0
Witness for the Prosecution
1957★ 8.2
Scarface
1932★ 7.4
Edison, the Man
1940★ 6.8
The Earl of Chicago
1940★ 6.2
The Joker is Wild
1957★ 8.0
Elmer Gantry
1960★ 7.2
Rebecca
1940★ 7.9
The Unsuspected
1947★ 6.6
Dial M for Murder
1954★ 8.0
The Walking Dead
1936★ 6.3
The Big Sleep
1946★ 7.6
Johnny Allegro
1949★ 6.4
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961★ 8.0
Fallen Angel
1945★ 6.5
Iron Man
1951★ 6.1
Designing Woman
1957★ 6.6
Angel on My Shoulder
1946★ 6.5
Battle Cry
1955★ 5.6
Topaz
1969★ 6.0
In Society
1944★ 5.8
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953★ 7.3
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951★ 7.6
The Singing Fool
1928★ 4.3
A Chump at Oxford
1940★ 6.8
Hired Wife
1940★ 6.8
Chicago Confidential
1957★ 4.8
Ladies' Man
1931★ 4.1
Gunpoint
1966★ 6.0
Curtain Call
1940★ 7.3
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971★ 7.0
All About Eve
1950★ 8.1
Special Agent
1949★ 0.0
The Climax
1944★ 5.5
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945★ 7.1
Undercurrent
1946★ 5.9
The Blot
1921★ 6.2
The Racket
1928★ 6.5
Brooklyn Orchid
1942★ 6.0
Fort Ti
1953★ 6.5
Flamingo Road
1949★ 7.0
His Family Tree
1935★ 4.5
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952★ 7.3
The Seven Year Itch
1955★ 7.1
Champagne Charlie
1936★ 4.8
Hollywood Mystery
1934★ 3.5
Horizons West
1952★ 6.2
Hong Kong
1952★ 4.5
Julius Caesar
1953★ 7.1
Special Investigator
1936★ 5.2
Rio Lobo
1970★ 6.5
Around the World in 80 Days
1956★ 6.6
Race Street
1948★ 5.8
Midnight Mary
1933★ 6.8
Illegal
1955★ 6.3
Anything Goes
1956★ 6.0
Bannerline
1951★ 6.0
Carrie
1952★ 6.4
Honeymoon in Bali
1939★ 6.2
Shakedown
1950★ 6.2
The Men
1950★ 7.0
Remember?
1939★ 5.8
The Comic
1969★ 5.9
Jungle Goddess
1948★ 2.6
Anna Christie
1930★ 6.0
The Old Homestead
1935★ 0.0
Diamond Jim
1935★ 6.0
Monkey Business
1931★ 7.0
Ivy
1947★ 6.6
Only Yesterday
1933★ 6.8
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946★ 7.8
Undercover Maisie
1947★ 8.0
Frenchie
1950★ 5.7
Submarine
1928★ 5.5
Strictly Unconventional
1930★ 2.7
Smart Money
1931★ 6.9
Pillow Talk
1959★ 7.1
It's Always Fair Weather
1955★ 7.0
Shadow of Doubt
1935★ 6.2
Faithless
1932★ 6.6
Dirigible
1931★ 5.0
Daybreak
1931★ 3.4
Keep 'Em Flying
1941★ 6.0
The Tiger Woman
1945★ 5.3
Daisy Kenyon
1947★ 6.6
A Song to Remember
1945★ 6.3
Test Pilot
1938★ 6.5
Airport
1970★ 6.5
Movie Crazy
1932★ 6.2
Kitty
1945★ 5.5
Eternally Yours
1939★ 5.7
The Trespasser
1929★ 6.6
Bachelor Bait
1934★ 5.7
Government Girl
1943★ 5.2
Sweet Smell of Success
1957★ 7.6
Let's Dance
1950★ 5.6
So Proudly We Hail
1943★ 5.5
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1957★ 5.4
Valley of the Dolls
1967★ 6.0
A Star Is Born
1954★ 7.1
The Harder They Fall
1956★ 7.1
A Night at the Opera
1935★ 7.4
The Far Country
1954★ 6.9
The Thin Man
1934★ 7.5
Body and Soul
1947★ 6.7
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948★ 6.7
City of Chance
1940★ 5.2
Girl from Rio
1939★ 2.8
Dance Charlie Dance
1937★ 6.0
Captain Swagger
1928★ 0.0
The Bounty Hunter
1954★ 6.6
The Misses Stooge
1935★ 0.0
The Strange Door
1951★ 6.1
Men Call It Love
1931★ 4.5
Ace in the Hole
1951★ 7.9
Lady on a Train
1945★ 6.6
Gypsy
1962★ 6.3
Ball of Fire
1941★ 7.4
Woman's World
1954★ 7.1
The Children's Hour
1961★ 7.7
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947★ 7.0
The Unholy Wife
1957★ 4.4
I Walk Alone
1947★ 6.5
The Woman in Green
1945★ 6.4
Father of the Bride
1950★ 7.0
The Spider Woman
1943★ 6.9
Daddy Long Legs
1955★ 6.4
The Gay Deception
1935★ 6.4
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939★ 7.1
The Half-Naked Truth
1932★ 4.9
The Wheeler Dealers
1963★ 6.2
The Last Hurrah
1958★ 7.2
Action in the North Atlantic
1943★ 7.1
Big Time Or Bust
1933★ 3.5
Stronger Than Desire
1939★ 5.1
The High and the Mighty
1954★ 5.9
A Place in the Sun
1951★ 7.3
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951★ 6.3
Superman and the Mole Men
1951★ 5.3
Désirée
1954★ 6.6
The Tattered Dress
1957★ 5.2
On the Riviera
1951★ 5.9
Anybody's Woman
1930★ 5.9
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948★ 6.7
Dressed to Kill
1946★ 6.6
San Francisco
1936★ 6.5
The Hoodlum Saint
1946★ 5.2
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
1955★ 6.0
There's Always Tomorrow
1956★ 7.1
Road to Rio
1947★ 6.8
In Old Chicago
1938★ 6.6
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944★ 7.1
Hollywood Scout
1945★ 0.0
Murder by Contract
1958★ 6.7
Red-Headed Woman
1932★ 6.5
She-Wolf of London
1946★ 5.5
The Delicious Little Devil
1919★ 5.6
The Blonde from Singapore
1941★ 5.0
The Damned Don't Cry
1950★ 7.0
Five and Ten
1931★ 5.8
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
1957★ 5.6
Pot o' Gold
1941★ 5.5
Critic's Choice
1963★ 5.6
West of Broadway
1931★ 6.3
Zero Hour!
1957★ 6.6
The Naughty Nineties
1945★ 6.6
Trouble Along the Way
1953★ 5.9
New York Confidential
1955★ 5.9
The Falcon Takes Over
1942★ 6.2
Munster, Go Home!
1966★ 6.4
One Night in the Tropics
1940★ 5.6
North of the Rio Grande
1937★ 5.5
The Leopard Man
1943★ 6.5
It Started with Eve
1941★ 7.2
The Time of Their Lives
1946★ 7.1
The Trouble with Girls
1969★ 4.8
Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939★ 5.2
Once More, My Darling
1949★ 5.7
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971★ 6.6
Money, Women and Guns
1958★ 5.3
Louisa
1950★ 6.5
Topper Returns
1941★ 6.4
He Ran All the Way
1951★ 7.2
City for Conquest
1940★ 6.8
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966★ 5.3
Long Lost Father
1934★ 5.7
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932★ 6.3
Children of Pleasure
1930★ 4.7
Wells Fargo
1937★ 5.2
Do You Love Me
1946★ 4.8
The Wet Parade
1932★ 5.8
Two Sisters from Boston
1946★ 6.0
Home Before Dark
1958★ 7.0
Canyon Passage
1946★ 6.6
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947★ 6.1
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932★ 6.7
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949★ 6.5
Something to Live For
1952★ 6.8
Pressure Point
1962★ 6.5
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947★ 6.1
Bombers B-52
1957★ 5.6
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960★ 6.1
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944★ 6.0
Swing Shift Maisie
1943★ 6.5
Who Was That Lady?
1960★ 6.3
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934★ 5.3
No Time for Comedy
1940★ 5.0
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938★ 6.9
Turnabout
1940★ 5.8
Hollywood Story
1951★ 6.6
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949★ 6.8
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
1949★ 5.0
The Helen Morgan Story
1957★ 5.0
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
1966★ 5.5
It's a Great Feeling
1949★ 5.8
Margin for Error
1943★ 5.7
The Star
1952★ 7.2
Emma
1932★ 6.4
Tomorrow We Live
1942★ 4.3
The Square Jungle
1955★ 5.9
Captain Caution
1940★ 5.6
New Moon
1930★ 4.3
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936★ 5.7
The Firefly
1937★ 6.4
Woman in Hiding
1950★ 6.2
The Road to Reno
1931★ 3.2
The Todd Killings
1971★ 4.1
Ex-Lady
1933★ 6.1
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961★ 6.0
The Showdown
1940★ 5.0
The Mysterious Lady
1928★ 7.4
Nobody Lives Forever
1946★ 6.2
Take a Letter, Darling
1942★ 6.5
Love Thy Neighbor
1940★ 6.5
A Woman of Affairs
1928★ 6.4
Niagara Falls
1941★ 6.8
While the City Sleeps
1928★ 5.9
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1955★ 6.1
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950★ 6.1
Lady for a Night
1942★ 5.2
Forty Little Mothers
1940★ 6.2
The Patsy
1928★ 6.6
The Story on Page One
1959★ 4.3
Larceny on the Air
1937★ 5.0
The Phantom of Paris
1931★ 5.9
The Rage of Paris
1938★ 5.8
Street of Chance
1930★ 6.6
Vagabond Lady
1935★ 7.2
Cry Tough
1959★ 5.8
The Feminine Touch
1941★ 4.6
Reaching for the Moon
1930★ 5.4
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1933★ 7.4
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939★ 5.6
Forgotten Women
1931★ 0.0
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940★ 4.6
That's Right – You're Wrong
1939★ 5.7
Hit Parade of 1941
1940★ 5.5
Sinner Take All
1936★ 4.3
Go Into Your Dance
1935★ 6.8
Alias the Champ
1949★ 6.0
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940★ 0.0
The Country Doctor
1936★ 6.0
To Beat the Band
1935★ 0.0
Let Us Be Gay
1930★ 3.6
Sin Takes a Holiday
1930★ 5.4
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942★ 6.5
Playboy of Paris
1930★ 7.0
The Arizonian
1935★ 0.0
The Guilty Generation
1931★ 6.1
The Mad Whirl
1925★ 6.5
Carnival Rock
1957★ 4.4