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 For

The Thin Man

25 May, 1934

He Ran All the Way

20 June, 1951

Alias the Champ

15 October, 1949

Ball of Fire

2 December, 1941

It Started with Eve

26 September, 1941

Topaz

17 December, 1969

She-Wolf of London

17 May, 1946

Lady for a Night

5 January, 1942

The Unsuspected

11 October, 1947

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

3 April, 1951

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

1 April, 1950

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

23 June, 1955

Hong Kong

18 April, 1952

The Strange Door

21 June, 1951

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

17 April, 1947

Bannerline

12 October, 1951

Gunpoint

25 April, 1966

Rio Lobo

1 April, 1970

Support Your Local Gunfighter

26 May, 1971

Big Time Or Bust

10 November, 1933

Five and Ten

13 June, 1931

The Unholy Wife

24 June, 1957

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

11 February, 1944

Chicago Confidential

30 August, 1957

Do You Love Me

17 May, 1946

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

26 November, 1957

The Firefly

5 November, 1937

The Mysterious Lady

4 August, 1928

There's Always Tomorrow

8 January, 1956

Lady on a Train

3 August, 1945

Shadow of Doubt

15 February, 1935

Illegal

9 October, 1955

Remember?

19 December, 1939

Fort Ti

30 April, 1953

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

20 October, 1949

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

25 April, 1947

Who Was That Lady?

8 April, 1960

The Tattered Dress

14 March, 1957

Topper Returns

21 March, 1941

Let's Dance

29 November, 1950

Reaching for the Moon

29 December, 1930

The Half-Naked Truth

16 December, 1932

Cry Tough

1 August, 1959

Ladies' Man

16 April, 1931

Murder by Contract

18 December, 1958

Frenchie

25 December, 1950

New Moon

23 December, 1930

Long Lost Father

19 January, 1934

The Gay Deception

13 September, 1935

Ivy

26 June, 1947

The Graduate

21 December, 1967

Strictly Unconventional

3 May, 1930

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

14 July, 1953

The Wheeler Dealers

14 November, 1963

Hollywood Mystery

20 June, 1934

Ocean's Eleven

10 August, 1960

The Bad and the Beautiful

25 December, 1952

Money, Women and Guns

1 October, 1958

Louisa

31 May, 1950

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

7 October, 1971

The Story on Page One

1 December, 1959

The Blot

4 September, 1921

Sweet Smell of Success

4 July, 1957

The Misses Stooge

20 April, 1935

Special Investigator

8 May, 1936

Wells Fargo

31 December, 1937

While the City Sleeps

15 February, 1928

The Singing Fool

29 September, 1928

To Beat the Band

23 November, 1935

His Family Tree

29 September, 1935

Stronger Than Desire

30 June, 1939

The Blonde from Singapore

15 October, 1941

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

2 February, 1955

Carrie

17 July, 1952

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

23 November, 1957

Champagne Charlie

6 May, 1936

Zorro's Fighting Legion

16 December, 1939

Playboy of Paris

18 October, 1930

Shakedown

1 September, 1950

A Star Is Born

1 October, 1954

All About Eve

9 November, 1950

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

26 May, 1949

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

2 June, 1939

Girl from Rio

7 August, 1939

Gypsy

1 November, 1962

That's Right – You're Wrong

24 November, 1939

Honeymoon in Bali

29 September, 1939

Eternally Yours

7 October, 1939

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

3 February, 1933

Valley of the Dolls

27 December, 1967

The Far Country

12 February, 1954

Men Call It Love

14 March, 1931

The Country Doctor

12 March, 1936

The Last Hurrah

31 December, 1958

Race Street

11 September, 1948

Witness for the Prosecution

17 December, 1957

Judgment at Nuremberg

18 December, 1961

Daybreak

2 May, 1931

To Kill a Mockingbird

20 December, 1962

Zero Hour!

13 November, 1957

Emma

2 January, 1932

The Joker is Wild

26 September, 1957

Niagara Falls

17 October, 1941

Street of Chance

8 February, 1930

Forgotten Women

25 November, 1931

Rebecca

23 March, 1940

Woman in Hiding

6 January, 1950

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

2 November, 1966

The Earl of Chicago

5 January, 1940

North of the Rio Grande

28 June, 1937

Edison, the Man

10 May, 1940

High Noon

9 June, 1952

On the Riviera

20 April, 1951

The Showdown

8 March, 1940

Buck Benny Rides Again

31 May, 1940

The Patsy

22 April, 1928

Battle Cry

2 February, 1955

Special Agent

22 July, 1949

Jungle Goddess

13 August, 1948

Ace in the Hole

29 June, 1951

Fallen Angel

15 November, 1945

The Square Jungle

30 December, 1955

The Hoodlum Saint

4 April, 1946

Government Girl

5 November, 1943

Red-Headed Woman

25 June, 1932

The Arizonian

27 June, 1935

City for Conquest

21 September, 1940

No Time for Comedy

14 September, 1940

A Chump at Oxford

25 January, 1940

Hired Wife

13 September, 1940

One Night in the Tropics

15 November, 1940

Turnabout

17 May, 1940

Captain Caution

9 August, 1940

Love Thy Neighbor

27 December, 1940

City of Chance

13 January, 1940

Captain Swagger

13 October, 1928

Anybody's Woman

15 August, 1930

Dance Charlie Dance

6 July, 1937

Sing, Baby, Sing

21 August, 1936

No Time for Love

9 April, 1943

The Damned Don't Cry

13 May, 1950

Around the World in 80 Days

17 October, 1956

The Tiger Woman

16 November, 1945

Citizen Kane

17 April, 1941

Diamond Jim

1 September, 1935

Sinner Take All

18 December, 1936

Trouble Along the Way

4 April, 1953

Once More, My Darling

10 September, 1949

The Road to Reno

25 September, 1931

Curtain Call

18 April, 1940

Forty Little Mothers

26 April, 1940

The Trespasser

11 November, 1929

The Woman in Green

15 June, 1945

The Feminine Touch

1 October, 1941

Elmer Gantry

7 July, 1960

Children of Pleasure

26 April, 1930

Mexican Spitfire Out West

29 October, 1940

The Star

11 December, 1952

Bombers B-52

22 November, 1957

Brooklyn Orchid

31 January, 1942

The Phantom of Paris

12 September, 1931

San Francisco

26 June, 1936

Hollywood Scout

14 April, 1945

The Best Years of Our Lives

25 December, 1946

Woman's World

30 September, 1954

A Place in the Sun

12 June, 1951

The Walking Dead

1 March, 1936

Daisy Kenyon

25 December, 1947

Airport

25 March, 1970

Let Us Be Gay

11 July, 1930

The Seven Year Itch

3 June, 1955

The Harder They Fall

8 May, 1956

The Trouble with Girls

24 June, 1969

Scarface

9 April, 1932

Action in the North Atlantic

12 June, 1943

Pack Up Your Troubles

16 September, 1932

A Woman of Affairs

15 December, 1928

Margin for Error

10 February, 1943

So Proudly We Hail

9 September, 1943

The Spider Woman

24 December, 1943

Undercurrent

11 November, 1946

Faithless

15 October, 1932

The Rage of Paris

9 June, 1938

The Man in the Iron Mask

13 July, 1939

Pillow Talk

7 October, 1959

The Picture of Dorian Gray

3 March, 1945

Only Yesterday

1 November, 1933

Johnny Allegro

26 May, 1949

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein

11 June, 1961

A Streetcar Named Desire

19 September, 1951

Angel on My Shoulder

20 September, 1946

Anna Christie

21 February, 1930

Ex-Lady

15 May, 1933

The Big Sleep

23 August, 1946

Hollywood Story

1 June, 1951

Father of the Bride

18 May, 1950

Bachelor Bait

27 July, 1934

Body and Soul

11 November, 1947

Tomorrow We Live

23 September, 1942

Keep 'Em Flying

27 November, 1941

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

15 August, 1934

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

8 October, 1947

In Society

16 August, 1944

The Naughty Nineties

20 June, 1945

The Time of Their Lives

13 August, 1946

Some Like It Hot

19 March, 1959

The Wet Parade

26 March, 1932

A Song to Remember

19 January, 1945

The Racket

1 November, 1928

Road to Rio

25 December, 1947

I Walk Alone

31 December, 1947

Take a Letter, Darling

6 May, 1942

In Old Chicago

15 April, 1938

The Children's Hour

19 December, 1961

Dial M for Murder

29 May, 1954

Dressed to Kill

24 May, 1946

Sabrina

1 September, 1954

Nobody Lives Forever

1 November, 1946

Pot o' Gold

3 April, 1941

Smart Money

11 June, 1931

Home Before Dark

16 November, 1958

You Gotta Stay Happy

28 October, 1948

Two Sisters from Boston

6 June, 1946

Something to Live For

7 March, 1952

Sorry, Wrong Number

24 September, 1948

Designing Woman

16 May, 1957

Pressure Point

10 October, 1962

Go Into Your Dance

20 April, 1935

It's Always Fair Weather

30 August, 1955

Superman and the Mole Men

23 November, 1951

The Old Homestead

5 October, 1935

Carnival Rock

1 September, 1957

Monkey Business

19 September, 1931

Gold Is Where You Find It

12 February, 1938

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

21 January, 1960

A Night at the Opera

15 November, 1935

Anything Goes

27 April, 1956

Kitty

16 October, 1945

Daddy Long Legs

5 May, 1955

The Falcon Takes Over

29 May, 1942

Movie Crazy

23 September, 1932

The Climax

20 October, 1944

Merrily We Go to Hell

10 June, 1932

Hit Parade of 1941

14 October, 1940

The Guilty Generation

19 November, 1931

Swing Shift Maisie

1 October, 1943

Maisie Gets Her Man

1 June, 1942

Flamingo Road

30 April, 1949

Undercover Maisie

1 March, 1947

The High and the Mighty

3 July, 1954

New York Confidential

15 February, 1955

The Men

25 August, 1950

Test Pilot

16 April, 1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938

11 February, 1938

Munster, Go Home!

15 June, 1966

It's a Great Feeling

20 August, 1949

Horizons West

11 October, 1952

The Doolins of Oklahoma

27 May, 1949

Canyon Passage

17 July, 1946

Sin Takes a Holiday

10 November, 1930

Vagabond Lady

3 May, 1935

Midnight Mary

30 June, 1933

The Mad Whirl

2 March, 1925

The Todd Killings

20 October, 1971

The Leopard Man

19 May, 1943

The Delicious Little Devil

12 May, 1919

The Comic

19 November, 1969

West of Broadway

28 November, 1931

Larceny on the Air

11 January, 1937

The Thin Man Goes Home

24 December, 1944

Désirée

16 November, 1954

Julius Caesar

4 June, 1953

The Bounty Hunter

25 September, 1954

Critic's Choice

24 February, 1963

Dirigible

1 February, 1931

The Helen Morgan Story

2 October, 1957

One of Our Spies Is Missing

1 December, 1966

Iron Man

20 September, 1951

The Twilight Zone

1959

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964

Rawhide

1959

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

Cheyenne

1955

Bewitched

1964

Wanted: Dead or Alive

1958

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964

Bonanza

1959

Rawhide

1959

Perry Mason

1957

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957