Eugene O'Brien

Eugene O'Brien

Born: November 14, 1880
Died: April 29, 1966
in 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.

Movies for Eugene O'Brien...

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Title: The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 24, 1961
Type: Movie
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
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The Romantic Age
Title: The Romantic Age
Character: Stephen Winslow
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Engaged to middle-aged Eugene O'Brien, Alberta Vaughn develops a yen for O'Brien's handsome younger brother Stanley Taylor. But when Taylor succumbs to her charms, she spurns him with a severe tongue-lashing. Understandably confused, the mild-mannered Taylor turns nasty, causing a rift between himself and O'Brien. The two brothers are reconciled when one saves the other from a burning building.
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Flames
Title: Flames
Character: Herbert Landis
Released: September 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Railroad builder James Travers (George Nichols) wants his pretty daughter, Anne (Virginia Valli), to marry Herbert Landis, a young engineer (Eugene O'Brien). Unfortunately, Anne loves Landis...like a brother, and his rival, Hilary Fenton (Bryant Washburn), stands ready to snatch her up.
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Fine Manners
Title: Fine Manners
Character: Brian Alden
Released: August 29, 1926
Type: Movie
The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.
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Siege
Title: Siege
Character: Kenyon Ruyland
Released: September 27, 1925
Type: Movie
A stern old woman, who owns the largest factory in a small town and has ruled both the factory and the town with an iron hand, finds herself battling with the wife of her nephew, the man she has picked to succeed her.
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Graustark
Title: Graustark
Character: Grenfall Lorry
Released: August 30, 1925
Type: Movie
An American falls for the princess of the Kingdom of Graustark, and decides to her marriage to a dastardly prince.
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Souls for Sables
Title: Souls for Sables
Character: Fred Garlan
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Only Woman
Title: The Only Woman
Character: Rex Herrington
Released: October 25, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott.
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Secrets
Title: Secrets
Character: John Carlton
Released: March 24, 1924
Type: Movie
An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her parents and moved with him to the Wyoming frontier. They live a hardscrabble life there and suffered deprivation, hunger, Indian attacks, and the death of her baby. Although they eventually make a go of it, her husband becomes involved with another woman. Now that he is on his deathbed, will she forgive her husband after 40 years.
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The Voice from the Minaret
Title: The Voice from the Minaret
Character: Andrew Fabian
Released: January 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Lord Carlyle governs a province in India. Although he weds the beautiful Adrienne, he can't make her love him. And no wonder -- he's not only cruel, he's unfaithful. Adrienne leaves him and boards a ship with the intention of returning to England. But on the boat she meets Andrew Fabian, who is studying for the clergy. They fall in love, and he convinces her to accompany him on a pilgrimage to Damascus.
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John Smith
Title: John Smith
Character: John Smith
Released: June 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social secretary, but is reluctant to tell her about his past.
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Channing of the Northwest
Title: Channing of the Northwest
Character: Channing
Released: April 10, 1922
Type: Movie
A foppish Londoner joins the Royal Canadian Mounties and tries to break a smuggling ring.
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Clay Dollars
Title: Clay Dollars
Released: October 19, 1921
Type: Movie
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The Last Door
Title: The Last Door
Character: The Magnet
Released: May 10, 1921
Type: Movie
The Last Door (1921)
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The Wonderful Chance
Title: The Wonderful Chance
Character: Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
Released: September 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Upon leaving prison, an ex con vows to go straight, but circumstances force him to return to crime. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks kidnaps a visiting British aristocrat, but the ex-con has an incredible likeness to the Englishman, and his intended hosts take him home to their mansion.
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The Broken Melody
Title: The Broken Melody
Character: Stewart Grant
Released: December 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Stewart, an art student in the "bohemian" Greenwich Village in New York City, lives next door to his girlfriend Hedda, who wants to be a singer. One night while they are dining at their favorite cafe, a wealthy woman, Mrs. Trask, comes up to them with a proposition: she knows he is an artist and wants to go to Paris in order to study and develop his talent, and she will pay all his expenses to allow him to do that. He refuses because he doesn't want to leave Hedda, but she eventually persuades him to agree. It turns out that she as an ulterior motive for what she's doing--as does Mrs. Trask.
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Sealed Hearts
Title: Sealed Hearts
Character: Jack Prentiss
Released: November 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Frank Prentiss, a multi-millionaire who hates and distrusts women, convinces his adopted son, Jack, that they are detrimental to a man's success. The overworked Frank is forced to rest at the country home of his friend, Mr. Gray, where he meets and falls in love with the host's daughter, Kate. She refuses his proposal at first, but later accepts because her father, who has two younger children, is experiencing financial difficulties. Following the wedding, Kate is subjected to Frank's verbal abuse and seeks solace with Jack. Their friendship enrages Frank, who tortures them with his accusations. During a dinner party, Frank accuses Jack and Kate of being lovers in front of the male guests. Jack is restrained from accosting his father, but Frank suffers a fatal heart attack. Later, Jack and Kate fall in love and are married.
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Little Miss Hoover
Title: Little Miss Hoover
Character: Major Adam Baldwin
Released: December 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Little Miss Hoover is a 1918 American silent romantic drama film directed by John S. Robertson and stars Marguerite Clark. The film is based on the novel The Golden Bird, by Maria Thompson Davies.
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Under the Greenwood Tree
Title: Under the Greenwood Tree
Character: Jack Hutton
Released: December 8, 1918
Type: Movie
Acting on her love of nature and loathing of titled fortune hunters, heiress Mary Hamilton leaves home with her secretary, Peggy Ingledew, to join a band of roving gypsies. One of Mary's suitors, Sir Kenneth Graham, follows the two young women into the woods, dressed in gypsy garb, but when Jack Hutton decides to rid his forested land of gypsies, Sir Kenneth is thrown into jail.
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The Spirit That Wins
Title: The Spirit That Wins
Character: The Soldier
Released: October 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Elsie gets a letter from her soldier boyfriend that convinces her to sign up as a Red Cross nurse.
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Her Only Way
Title: Her Only Way
Character: Joseph Marshall
Released: August 18, 1918
Type: Movie
The Westbrook family has been ruined financially, and when the daughter Lucille comes home from boarding school, she finds herself in a terrible dilemma -- she either must marry a rich man she does not love and save her family's fortune, or marry the man she loves and lose everything.
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The Safety Curtain
Title: The Safety Curtain
Character: Captain Merryon
Released: July 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Puck is a music hall dancer, married to an abusive husband. One night the music hall catches fire. Puck is rescued by an army officer and her husband perishes. Puck marries the officer and they begin a new life in India, until a man from her past finds her and makes demands.
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A Romance of the Underworld
Title: A Romance of the Underworld
Released: June 30, 1918
Type: Movie
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De Luxe Annie
Title: De Luxe Annie
Character: Jimmy Fitzpatrick
Released: May 19, 1918
Type: Movie
A 1918 film directed by Roland West.
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By Right of Purchase
Title: By Right of Purchase
Character: Chadwick Himes
Released: February 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A 1918 film directed by Charles Miller.
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The Ghosts of Yesterday
Title: The Ghosts of Yesterday
Character: Howard Marston
Released: January 19, 1918
Type: Movie
After his wife/model has died of starvation with her portrait unfinished, an impoverished artist meets another woman with a striking resemblance to her. -from IMDB.
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The Moth
Title: The Moth
Character: Cpt. Bridgey
Released: October 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Spoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until she falls in love with a man who loves only her money. She marries him, and after their child is born, she is confronted with life's harsh realities after her husband demands more and more money with which to support his mistress.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Character: Adam Ladd
Released: September 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated like a prisoner by her strict Aunt, yet she gamely does her best to get an education. When spoiled girls at school mock the spirited Rebecca as "missy poor-house," she soon makes them come to eat their words. Despite many difficulties, Rebecca manages to help the less fortunate and spread joy in Riverboro, dreaming that her reward will come when she is "all growed up." This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion.
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Poppy
Title: Poppy
Character: Sir Evelyn Carson
Released: May 4, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Edward José
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The Rise of Susan
Title: The Rise of Susan
Character: Clavering Gordon
Released: December 18, 1916
Type: Movie
Susan takes the place of model and shows the clothes so well that she is asked to impersonate a Countess at a reception given by a customer.
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The Chaperon
Title: The Chaperon
Character: Jim Ogden
Released: November 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Jim Ogden, secretly engaged to Madge Hemmingway, wealthy heiress, becomes sensitive over his lack of money and breaks the engagement. In a moment of pique she marries Count Van Tuyle. After six months she returns from Europe, minus her husband. Trying to forget her error, she goes to the country.
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The Return of Eve
Title: The Return of Eve
Character: Adam
Released: October 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Believing that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire, took two unrelated orphan children, a boy and a girl, and placed them in a wilderness, there in the care of an old tutor, David Winters, to grow up as a new Adam and Eve, and become path-breakers of a better race.
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The Scarlet Woman
Title: The Scarlet Woman
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
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Poor Little Peppina
Title: Poor Little Peppina
Character: Hugh Carroll
Released: March 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Holding a grudge against Robert Torrens and his wife, who live in Italy, a member of the Mafia kidnaps their infant daughter Lois. Fifteen years later, after having been raised by Italian peasants, Lois, now called Peppina, dresses as a boy and stows away on a ship to America in order to avoid a marriage to a particularly loathsome count. While aboard ship she befriends Hugh Carroll, an assistant district attorney, who arranges first-class transportation for the "boy." In New York, she once again meets her kidnapper, who fled to America after the crime. He forces Peppina to maintain the masculine disguise and to pass counterfeit bills for him, for which she is arrested. Peppina gladly exposes the kidnapper's operation to the authorities, one of whom, Hugh, recognizes her as the "boy" he met on the ship. Then, once the kidnapper has been apprehended, Peppina is reunited with her parents, after which she and Hugh, who has finally discovered that she is female, get married.
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The Moonstone
Title: The Moonstone
Released: June 21, 1915
Type: Movie