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William H. O'Brien
Born: 1891-07-19 in Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
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.
Rated Filmography (285)
Sorted by Score10.0
The Misses Stooge
1935
10.0
To Beat the Band
1935
10.0
The Old Homestead
1935
9.0
Special Agent
1949
8.2
Witness for the Prosecution
1957
8.1
The Joker is Wild
1957
8.1
Some Like It Hot
1959
8.1
All About Eve
1950
8.0
Dial M for Murder
1954
8.0
Forgotten Women
1931
8.0
The Arizonian
1935
8.0
Dance Charlie Dance
1937
8.0
Undercover Maisie
1947
8.0
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
8.0
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
8.0
Citizen Kane
1941
7.9
Rebecca
1940
7.8
Ace in the Hole
1951
7.7
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
7.7
The Children's Hour
1961
7.7
High Noon
1952
7.6
The Graduate
1967
7.6
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
7.6
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1933
7.6
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
7.6
The Big Sleep
1946
7.5
The Thin Man
1934
7.5
Honeymoon in Bali
1939
7.5
Sabrina
1954
7.4
Ball of Fire
1941
7.4
Scarface
1932
7.4
A Night at the Opera
1935
7.3
Alias the Champ
1949
7.3
Love Thy Neighbor
1940
7.3
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953
7.3
A Place in the Sun
1951
7.3
The Mysterious Lady
1928
7.3
Elmer Gantry
1960
7.3
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
7.3
Curtain Call
1940
7.2
The Star
1952
7.2
The Time of Their Lives
1946
7.2
He Ran All the Way
1951
7.2
It Started with Eve
1941
7.2
The Harder They Fall
1956
7.2
Go Into Your Dance
1935
7.2
The Last Hurrah
1958
7.2
There's Always Tomorrow
1956
7.2
Vagabond Lady
1935
7.2
Woman's World
1954
7.1
Only Yesterday
1933
7.1
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
7.1
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
7.1
A Star Is Born
1954
7.1
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939
7.1
Pillow Talk
1959
7.1
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
7.1
Julius Caesar
1953
7.1
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
7.0
The Seven Year Itch
1955
7.0
The Men
1950
7.0
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
7.0
Fort Ti
1953
7.0
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
7.0
Playboy of Paris
1930
7.0
Captain Swagger
1928
7.0
No Time for Love
1943
7.0
Faithless
1932
7.0
Home Before Dark
1958
7.0
Flamingo Road
1949
7.0
Larceny on the Air
1937
7.0
Father of the Bride
1950
7.0
The Spider Woman
1943
7.0
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
6.9
It's Always Fair Weather
1955
6.9
The Far Country
1954
6.9
The Trespasser
1929
6.9
Something to Live For
1952
6.9
Monkey Business
1931
6.9
Little Caesar
1931
6.9
Smart Money
1931
6.9
A Chump at Oxford
1940
6.9
City for Conquest
1940
6.8
Hired Wife
1940
6.8
Edison, the Man
1940
6.8
Road to Rio
1947
6.8
Swing Shift Maisie
1943
6.8
Midnight Mary
1933
6.8
The Bounty Hunter
1954
6.8
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
6.8
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
6.8
Murder by Contract
1958
6.8
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
6.8
Street of Chance
1930
6.8
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
6.8
Bannerline
1951
6.8
West of Broadway
1931
6.7
The Naughty Nineties
1945
6.7
In Old Chicago
1938
6.7
The Unsuspected
1947
6.7
North of the Rio Grande
1937
6.7
Hollywood Story
1951
6.7
Body and Soul
1947
6.7
Designing Woman
1957
6.7
Canyon Passage
1946
6.7
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
6.7
Shadow of Doubt
1935
6.7
Niagara Falls
1941
6.7
The Patsy
1928
6.7
Brooklyn Orchid
1942
6.7
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
6.7
Lady on a Train
1945
6.6
Ivy
1947
6.6
Daisy Kenyon
1947
6.6
The Mad Whirl
1925
6.6
Emma
1932
6.6
Red-Headed Woman
1932
6.6
Dressed to Kill
1946
6.6
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949
6.6
Anybody's Woman
1930
6.6
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
6.6
Zero Hour!
1957
6.6
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950
6.6
Take a Letter, Darling
1942
6.6
I Walk Alone
1947
6.6
San Francisco
1936
6.6
Désirée
1954
6.5
Louisa
1950
6.5
Angel on My Shoulder
1946
6.5
Pressure Point
1962
6.5
Christmas Holiday
1944
6.5
A Woman of Affairs
1928
6.5
The Leopard Man
1943
6.5
The Woman in Green
1945
6.5
Rio Lobo
1970
6.5
The Firefly
1937
6.5
Topper Returns
1941
6.5
The Country Doctor
1936
6.5
Fallen Angel
1945
6.5
Diamond Jim
1935
6.5
Once More, My Darling
1949
6.5
Forty Little Mothers
1940
6.5
Hollywood Scout
1945
6.5
Bachelor Bait
1934
6.5
The Racket
1928
6.5
The Verdict
1946
6.5
Airport
1970
6.5
A Song to Remember
1945
6.5
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932
6.5
Illegal
1955
6.4
Movie Crazy
1932
6.4
Johnny Allegro
1949
6.4
Nobody Lives Forever
1946
6.4
Who Was That Lady?
1960
6.4
Carrie
1952
6.4
Shakedown
1950
6.4
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961
6.4
Daddy Long Legs
1955
6.4
Munster, Go Home!
1966
6.4
Ocean's Eleven
1960
6.4
The Gay Deception
1935
6.4
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960
6.3
Gypsy
1962
6.3
Horizons West
1952
6.3
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944
6.3
Million Dollar Baby
1941
6.3
The Wheeler Dealers
1963
6.3
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951
6.3
The Blot
1921
6.3
While the City Sleeps
1928
6.3
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939
6.3
Woman in Hiding
1950
6.3
The Walking Dead
1936
6.3
Margin for Error
1943
6.3
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
6.3
The Falcon Takes Over
1942
6.3
The Earl of Chicago
1940
6.3
Ex-Lady
1933
6.3
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938
6.3
That's Right – You're Wrong
1939
6.2
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1955
6.2
The Guilty Generation
1931
6.2
The Strange Door
1951
6.2
Gunpoint
1966
6.2
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
6.2
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947
6.2
Hit Parade of 1941
1940
6.2
Iron Man
1951
6.2
Keep 'Em Flying
1941
6.2
The Wet Parade
1932
6.1
Let's Dance
1950
6.1
Cry Tough
1959
6.1
The Square Jungle
1955
6.1
Trouble Along the Way
1953
6.1
The Comic
1969
6.1
Five and Ten
1931
6.1
Test Pilot
1938
6.1
On the Riviera
1951
6.0
Turnabout
1940
6.0
Anna Christie
1930
6.0
Topaz
1969
6.0
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
1955
6.0
Remember?
1939
6.0
Frenchie
1950
6.0
Valley of the Dolls
1967
6.0
Men Call It Love
1931
6.0
Race Street
1948
6.0
The Showdown
1940
6.0
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936
6.0
The Phantom of Paris
1931
6.0
Anything Goes
1956
6.0
The High and the Mighty
1954
6.0
New York Confidential
1955
6.0
It's a Great Feeling
1949
5.9
Undercurrent
1946
5.9
Sincerely Yours
1955
5.9
Eternally Yours
1939
5.9
So Proudly We Hail
1943
5.9
Long Lost Father
1934
5.8
In Society
1944
5.8
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
1966
5.8
The Tiger Woman
1945
5.8
Bombers B-52
1957
5.8
The Rage of Paris
1938
5.8
Submarine
1928
5.8
One Night in the Tropics
1940
5.8
Battle Cry
1955
5.8
New Moon
1930
5.8
Hollywood Mystery
1934
5.8
Money, Women and Guns
1958
5.8
The Blonde from Singapore
1941
5.7
Reaching for the Moon
1930
5.7
Captain Caution
1940
5.7
Kitty
1945
5.7
The Delicious Little Devil
1919
5.7
Big Time Or Bust
1933
5.7
Government Girl
1943
5.6
Pot o' Gold
1941
5.6
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934
5.6
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1957
5.6
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
1957
5.6
Sin Takes a Holiday
1930
5.6
Critic's Choice
1963
5.6
She-Wolf of London
1946
5.6
City of Chance
1940
5.6
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
1949
5.5
Dirigible
1931
5.5
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
5.5
Lady for a Night
1942
5.5
The Tattered Dress
1957
5.5
His Family Tree
1935
5.5
Stronger Than Desire
1939
5.5
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
5.5
Children of Pleasure
1930
5.5
The Climax
1944
5.5
Wells Fargo
1937
5.4
Special Investigator
1936
5.4
Champagne Charlie
1936
5.4
Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939
5.3
Superman and the Mole Men
1951
5.3
No Time for Comedy
1940
5.3
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
5.3
The Sky Raiders
1931
5.1
The Half-Naked Truth
1932
5.1
The Feminine Touch
1941
5.1
Hong Kong
1952
5.1
The Story on Page One
1959
5.0
Chicago Confidential
1957
5.0
The Singing Fool
1928
5.0
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
5.0
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940
4.9
The Trouble with Girls
1969
4.9
Tomorrow We Live
1942
4.9
Sinner Take All
1936
4.8
Girl from Rio
1939
4.7
Carnival Rock
1957
4.7
The Unholy Wife
1957
4.7
Do You Love Me
1946
4.6
The Todd Killings
1971
4.6
Ladies' Man
1931
4.3
Daybreak
1931
4.3
Strictly Unconventional
1930
4.1
Let Us Be Gay
1930
4.0
The Road to Reno
1931
2.9
Jungle Goddess
1948