Eugene O'Brien
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 14, 1880
- Died
- April 29, 1966
- Birthplace
- Boulder, Colorado, USA
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.
Filmography
The Flag 2016
Writer
The Food Guide to Love 2013
Writer
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino 1961
as Self (archive footage)
- The Faithless Lover
The Faithless Lover 1928
as Austin Kent
The Romantic Age 1927
as Stephen Winslow
Flames 1926
as Herbert Landis
Fine Manners 1926
as Brian Alden
Siege 1925
as Kenyon Ruyland
Graustark 1925
as Grenfall Lorry
Dangerous Innocence 1925
as Major Seymour
Souls for Sables 1925
as Fred Garlan
The Only Woman 1924
as Rex Herrington
Secrets 1924
as John Carlton
The Voice from the Minaret 1923
as Andrew Fabian
John Smith 1922
as John Smith
Channing of the Northwest 1922
as Channing
The Prophet's Paradise 1922
as Howard Anderson
Clay Dollars 1921
as Bruce Edwards
Is Life Worth Living? 1921
as Melville Marley
The Last Door 1921
as The Magnet
Gilded Lies 1921
as Keene McComb
Worlds Apart 1921
as Hugh Ledyard
- Broadway and Home
Broadway and Home 1920
as Michael Strange
The Wonderful Chance 1920
as Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
The Figurehead 1920
as Sheridan Dow
A Fool and His Money 1920
as John B. Smart
His Wife's Money 1920
as Richard Flint
The Broken Melody 1919
as Stewart Grant
Sealed Hearts 1919
as Jack Prentiss
The Perfect Lover 1919
as Brian Lazar
Fires of Faith 1919
as Harry Hammond, a Broker
Come Out of the Kitchen 1919
as Burton Crane
Little Miss Hoover 1918
as Major Adam Baldwin
Under the Greenwood Tree 1918
as Jack Hutton
- The Spirit That Wins
The Spirit That Wins 1918
as The Soldier
Her Only Way 1918
as Joseph Marshall
The Safety Curtain 1918
as Captain Merryon
A Romance of the Underworld 1918
as Thomas McDonald
De Luxe Annie 1918
as Jimmy Fitzpatrick
By Right of Purchase 1918
as Chadwick Himes
The Ghosts of Yesterday 1918
as Howard Marston
The Moth 1917
as Cpt. Bridgey
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1917
as Adam Ladd
Poppy 1917
as Sir Evelyn Carson
The Rise of Susan 1916
as Clavering Gordon
The Chaperon 1916
as Jim Ogden
The Return of Eve 1916
as Adam
The Scarlet Woman 1916
as Robert Blake
Poor Little Peppina 1916
as Hugh Carroll
Just Out of College 1915
as Edward Worthington Swinger
The Moonstone 1915
as Franklin Blake
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