Eugene O'Brien
Known for Acting · 49 credits
- Born
- 1880-11-14
- Died
- 1966-04-29
- Place of birth
- Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Also known as
- Louis O'Brien
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.
Known For
Movies (49)
The Moonstone
1915
as Franklin Blake
Secrets
1924
as John Carlton
The Moth
1917
as Cpt. Bridgey
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
as Self (archive footage)
The Figurehead
1920
as Sheridan Dow
Worlds Apart
1921
as Hugh Ledyard
The Perfect Lover
1919
as Brian Lazar
The Voice from the Minaret
1923
as Andrew Fabian
Her Only Way
1918
as Joseph Marshall
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917
as Adam Ladd
The Wonderful Chance
1920
as Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
Sealed Hearts
1919
as Jack Prentiss
His Wife's Money
1920
as Richard Flint
Fine Manners
1926
as Brian Alden
The Scarlet Woman
1916
as Robert Blake
Poor Little Peppina
1916
as Hugh Carroll
Siege
1925
as Kenyon Ruyland
Fires of Faith
1919
as Harry Hammond, a Broker
Channing of the Northwest
1922
as Channing
Graustark
1925
as Grenfall Lorry
Clay Dollars
1921
as Bruce Edwards
The Prophet's Paradise
1922
as Howard Anderson
The Return of Eve
1916
as Adam
Dangerous Innocence
1925
as Major Seymour
The Chaperon
1916
as Jim Ogden
A Romance of the Underworld
1918
as Thomas McDonald
The Romantic Age
1927
as Stephen Winslow
Flames
1926
as Herbert Landis
Come Out of the Kitchen
1919
as Burton Crane
Gilded Lies
1921
as Keene McComb
Just Out of College
1915
as Edward Worthington Swinger
The Safety Curtain
1918
as Captain Merryon
John Smith
1922
as John Smith
Is Life Worth Living?
1921
as Melville Marley
The Broken Melody
1919
as Stewart Grant
A Fool and His Money
1920
as John B. Smart
Under the Greenwood Tree
1918
as Jack Hutton
Broadway and Home
1920
as Michael Strange
The Last Door
1921
as The Magnet
The Only Woman
1924
as Rex Herrington
The Ghosts of Yesterday
1918
as Howard Marston
Poppy
1917
as Sir Evelyn Carson
Little Miss Hoover
1918
as Major Adam Baldwin
De Luxe Annie
1918
as Jimmy Fitzpatrick
Souls for Sables
1925
as Fred Garlan
By Right of Purchase
1918
as Chadwick Himes
The Rise of Susan
1916
as Clavering Gordon
The Faithless Lover
1928
as Austin Kent
The Spirit That Wins
1918
as The Soldier
About Eugene O'Brien
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 a… With 49 credits spanning from 1915 to 1961, Eugene O'Brien has appeared in 49 films and 0 TV shows.
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- The Moonstone (1915) — as Franklin Blake
- Secrets (1924) — as John Carlton
- The Moth (1917) — as Cpt. Bridgey
- The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961) — as Self (archive footage)
- The Figurehead (1920) — as Sheridan Dow
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