

Cast & creator
Best known for Studio 57, This Is Your Life, Hollywood
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.
89
film credits
3
television credits
92
1922–2023 · acting roles
7.2
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Across film & television
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Self
1952
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
1980
The Man (Anses)
1927
Maj. Mac Allshard
1949
Capt. Sam Collingwood
1948
Major Braden
1964
Bradley Blatchford
1926
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Davy Brandon
1925
Travis / Japheth
1928

Bramdlet Dickery
1929
Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
1943
George
1928
'Duke' Muldoon
1947Narrator
1959
Cliff Mason
1939
Lieutenant Philip Gresson
1929
(archive footage)
1961
Buck Duane
1930
Larry Knight
1935
Barney O'Dell
1939
John Breen
1927
Dan O'Malley
1926
Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
1936
Jim Lassiter
1931
Jeff Toland
1940
Cadet John Randall
1929
John Oglegree
1928
One of the Ghosts (uncredited)
1922
Deck Hand
1922
Jeffery Carson
1937
Henry Potter
1924Sailor
1922
Jim Barry
1933
George O'Brien
1951
(archive footage)
1976
Buck Duane
1930
Grant Curran
1937
Clifford
1923
Daniel Boone
1936
Smoke Mason
1933
Larry Rhodes
1938
Michael Wyatt
1934
Galley Slave (uncredited)
1924
Bob Wallace
1936
Dick Chappel
1925
Brad Henderson
1940
Boone Yeager
1939
Robert Kelly
1928
Ernest 'Dude' Selby
1934
Tom O'Day
1926
Tony Bard aka Woodbury
1931
Captain Jack Steele
1938
Nostromo
1926
Luther Smith
1924
Dan Clark
1940
Steve Holden
1940
Islander (uncredited)
1922
Ted Radcliffe
1932
Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
1935
Tony
1925
Scott Baylor
1939
Clint Bradford
1939
Bill Burleigh
1923
Bob Walker
1935
Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley
1931
Jim Galloway
1938
Crown Prince Michae
1927
Adam Smith
1926
Whistlin' Dan Barry
1931
Bob Sanborn
1932
Tom Daley
1933
Brill Austin
1940Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
1935
George Darcy
1926
Tom O'Malley
1938
John Shefford
1932
David Lynch / Motano
1932
Wade Barton
1939
Denny Bolton
1925
Billy West
1930
Jim Wall
1932
Kenneth Jamieson
1925
Louis
1924
Ed 'Chick' Cowan
1927
Neil Rogers
1934
Kal Emerson
1935
Bob McVey
1938
Bruce Lane
1937
Jerry Delaney
1924