Eugene O'Brien

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1880-11-14

Deathday 1966-04-29 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Boulder, Colorado, USA

Also Known As Louis O'Brien

Eugene 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

Actor

1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)

1927
The Romantic Age

as Stephen Winslow

1926
Flames

as Herbert Landis

1926
Fine Manners

as Brian Alden

1925
Siege

as Kenyon Ruyland

1925
Graustark

as Grenfall Lorry

1925
Dangerous Innocence

as Major Seymour

1925
Souls for Sables

as Fred Garlan

1924
The Only Woman

as Rex Herrington

1924
Secrets

as John Carlton

1923
1922
John Smith

as John Smith

1921
The Last Door

as The Magnet

1921
Gilded Lies

as Keene McComb

1920
The Wonderful Chance

as Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow

1919
The Broken Melody

as Stewart Grant

1919
Sealed Hearts

as Jack Prentiss

1919
The Perfect Lover

as Brian Lazar

1919
Fires of Faith

as Harry Hammond, a Broker

1918
Little Miss Hoover

as Major Adam Baldwin

1918
1918
The Spirit That Wins

as The Soldier

1918
Her Only Way

as Joseph Marshall

1918
The Safety Curtain

as Captain Merryon

1918
A Romance of the Underworld

as Thomas McDonald

1918
De Luxe Annie

as Jimmy Fitzpatrick

1918
By Right of Purchase

as Chadwick Himes

1918
The Ghosts of Yesterday

as Howard Marston

1917
The Moth

as Cpt. Bridgey

1917
Poppy

as Sir Evelyn Carson

1916
The Rise of Susan

as Clavering Gordon

1916
The Chaperon

as Jim Ogden

1916
1916
The Scarlet Woman

as Robert Blake

1916
Poor Little Peppina

as Hugh Carroll

1915
Just Out of College

as Edward Worthington Swinger

Writer

2016
The Flag

as Writer