William H. O'Brien

Born

7/19/1891

Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia

William H. O'Brien

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 For285 Movies

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