Tom O'Brien

Tom O'Brien

Born: July 23, 1890
Died: June 8, 1947
in San Diego, California, USA

Movies for Tom O'Brien...

Phantom of Santa Fe
Title: Phantom of Santa Fe
Character: Henchman Kildane
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A band of renegades attacks and loots a mission, stealing some priceless treasures. Local citizens blame an outlaw known as "The Hawk," who is also called "The Phantom of Santa Fe."
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The Murder in the Museum
Title: The Murder in the Museum
Character: Alfred Carr
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a somewhat disreputable sideshow, the daughter of the chief suspect teams up with a newspaper reporter to find the real killer.
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The Woman Condemned
Title: The Woman Condemned
Character: First Detective
Released: April 3, 1934
Type: Movie
When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman discovered with her is the culprit — everyone, that is, but newspaper reporter Jerry Beall, who sets out to prove her innocence.
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It's a Cinch
Title: It's a Cinch
Character: Spike
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
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The Unexpected Father
Title: The Unexpected Father
Character: Policeman
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
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The Phantom
Title: The Phantom
Character: Police Sgt. Pat Collins
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An eclectic group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Joe Farley
Released: April 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A police captain investigating a ring of bank robbers falls in love with a nightclub entertainer suspected of being involved with the gang.
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Starbuck
Released: September 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
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Call of the West
Title: Call of the West
Character: Bull Clarkson
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Nightclub entertainer Violet La Tour collapses during a performance in Sagebrush, Texas, and is taken to the ranch of Lon Dixon. They fall in love and are married. Feeling deserted when Lon joins a posse in search of rustlers, she returns to New York. There, she is wooed by her agent, Maurice Kane, but confirms her love for Lon when he comes to claim her.
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Dance Hall
Title: Dance Hall
Character: Truckdriver
Released: December 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
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The Talk of Hollywood
Title: The Talk of Hollywood
Character: Reel-Mixing Projectionist
Released: December 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Schlock-movie producer J. Pierpont Ginsburg, after declaring, in a Yiddish accent, that "talking pictures are in their infantry," decides to put all of his savings into a big-budgeted musical, starring the sensation of Paris (with a bad French accent), Adore Renee, and a swishy leading man, Reginald Whitlock. Meanwhile, his daughter, Judy Ginsburg, gets involved in a romance with Ginsburg's Gentile lawyer, John Applegate. His efforts aren't helped any by the projectionist who mixes up the sound-disc reels, with the images not matching the dialogue and sound effects, during a showing for prospective film buyers and exhibitors.
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Untamed
Title: Untamed
Character: Moran
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
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Broadway Scandals
Title: Broadway Scandals
Character: Bill Gray
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.
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Hurricane
Title: Hurricane
Character: Dugan
Released: September 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Captain Black and his motley crew of pirates are shipwrecked on a South Sea island, where they hold several shanghaied sailors captive. Black observes the ship commanded by Hurricane Martin approaching and conspires to get his men aboard the vessel and seize the cargo.
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The Peacock Fan
Title: The Peacock Fan
Character: Sgt. O'Brien
Released: August 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a wealth home is replaced by a sneering second investigator of mixed racial ancestry in this mystery involving an ancient Asian fan.
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On With the Show!
Title: On With the Show!
Character: Larry Maloney
Released: July 13, 1929
Type: Movie
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
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The Flying Fool
Title: The Flying Fool
Character: Tom Dugan
Released: July 10, 1929
Type: Movie
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him. Unfortunately, he winds up falling in love with her himself.
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His Lucky Day
Title: His Lucky Day
Character: James - the Chauffeur
Released: June 2, 1929
Type: Movie
When a young man acts foolish, he's either insane, in debt or in love, and there's not much difference! Real estate agent Charles Blaydon is in love and in order to get the father of his sweetheart Kay Weaver to purchase a nearby property he is must fill the vacant house next door. So he does something foolish when he offers a few months rent free to the first group of prospective buyer he finds. However in his eagerness he doesn't suspect that this peculiar group isn't a family looking for a home but actually a gang of robbers on the lam!
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The Last Warning
Title: The Last Warning
Character: Inspector
Released: December 25, 1928
Type: Movie
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
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San Francisco Nights
Title: San Francisco Nights
Character: Red
Released: May 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...
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The Chorus Kid
Title: The Chorus Kid
Character: Bill Whipple
Released: April 9, 1928
Type: Movie
A Silent Comedy film directed by Howard Bretherton.
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That's My Daddy
Title: That's My Daddy
Character: Officer Patrick Moran
Released: December 19, 1927
Type: Movie
A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they accompany him whereupon a little girl attaches herself to him, with hilarious results.
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The Private Life of Helen of Troy
Title: The Private Life of Helen of Troy
Character: Ulysses
Released: December 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly refuses to take any of The Private Life of Helen of Troy seriously. Maria Corda, wife of the director, plays the title character as a fetchingly underdressed coquette, oblivious to all the political turmoil she's causing when she allows the handsome Paris (Ricardo Cortez) to kidnap her. Meanwhile, poor King Menelaus (Lewis Stone), Helen's husband, stands by in stoic silence, just as he's done on previous occasions when his wife succumbed to the charms of various sexy suitors (one of whom is played by future cowboy star "Wild Bill" Elliot). Finally galvanized into action, Menelaus reclaims his bride, who seems none the worse for wear for her experiences.
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The Bugle Call
Title: The Bugle Call
Character: Sgt. Doolan
Released: August 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Tale of a young bugler whose stepmother attempts to supplant the mother who only lives in his memory.
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Twelve Miles Out
Title: Twelve Miles Out
Character: Irish
Released: July 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry seizes Jane's seaside home. When she tries to turn him in, he kidnaps her and her fiance John. Jane, now in love with Jerry, must watch as Jerry and Red shoot it out on board Jerry's boat.
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The Frontiersman
Title: The Frontiersman
Character: Abner Hawkins
Released: June 11, 1927
Type: Movie
John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the treacherous White Snake in particular.
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Winners Of The Wilderness
Title: Winners Of The Wilderness
Character: Timothy
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
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The Fire Brigade
Title: The Fire Brigade
Character: Joe O'Neil
Released: December 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.
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The Flaming Forest
Title: The Flaming Forest
Character: Mike
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming Forest stars Antonio Moreno as RCMP sergeant David Carrigan.
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Crack O' Dawn
Title: Crack O' Dawn
Released: October 16, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Runaway Express
Title: The Runaway Express
Character: Sandy McPherson
Released: October 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Joe Foley, charged to deliver a trainload of cattle to his employer, is forced to commandeer the engine when his engineer refuses to continue until he has observed union rest rules.
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Take It from Me
Title: Take It from Me
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: October 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Eggett, with the help of his pals, Dick and Van, loses the last cent of his inheritance, is evicted from his apartment, and is rejected by Gwen, his fiancée. A codicil to his uncle's will, however, stipulates that he shall inherit the Eggett department store provided that he operate it for 3 months at a profit. Cyrus Crabb, manager of the store, is determined to gain possession of the business and arranges for the company's credit to be canceled during Tom's management, though Grace Gordon, a stenographer, has evidence of his perfidy.
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Poker Faces
Title: Poker Faces
Character: The Prizefighter
Released: September 5, 1926
Type: Movie
In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
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The Last Edition
Title: The Last Edition
Character: Bull - Job Foreman
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
A twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a promotion at the same time his son is accused of graft and involved in scandal. The historical landmarks of old San Francisco are present: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, City Hall and the Pickwick Hotel-- but they don't distract from the dramatic and emotional perforamces at the film's center.
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The Big Parade
Title: The Big Parade
Character: Michael Olysius 'Bull' O'Hara
Released: November 5, 1925
Type: Movie
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
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White Fang
Title: White Fang
Character: Matt
Released: May 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.
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So This Is Marriage?
Title: So This Is Marriage?
Character: Riley
Released: November 26, 1924
Type: Movie
The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.
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Winner Take All
Title: Winner Take All
Character: Dynamite Galloway
Released: October 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Perry Blair starts off as a sparring partner for a fighter, but when he knocks the guy down, manager Charles Dunham immediately sees his potential. He takes Blair to New York, where he meets pretty Cecil Manners. Blair finds out that his next fight is fixed and he pulls out. When Dunham spreads a rumor that he is yellow, Blair decides to return west.
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Fools Highway
Title: Fools Highway
Character: Philadelphia O'Brien
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
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Plumb Crazy
Title: Plumb Crazy
Character: Olie Margerine
Released: June 2, 1923
Type: Movie
Bobby Vernon comedy produced by Al Christie.
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The Gentleman from America
Title: The Gentleman from America
Character: Johnny Day
Released: February 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Two Army buddies, Dennis O'Shane and Johnny Day, decide to take their furlough in Paris but instead end up in Spain.
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Up and Going
Title: Up and Going
Character: Sergeant Langley
Released: April 22, 1922
Type: Movie
In Up and Going, based on Mix's own story, Arctic Trails, the star played a titled, polo playing Northwest Mounted Police officer. From an elderly woman, Tom learns that childhood girlfriend Jackie McNabb is being kept prisoner by evil Basil Du Bois.
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The Devil Within
Title: The Devil Within
Character: Wansley
Released: November 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Director Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama
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The Sagebrusher
Title: The Sagebrusher
Character: Charlie Dornewald (as Thomas O'Brien)
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A friend of a Montana sagebrusher advertises for a potential wife for him.
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Square Deal Sanderson
Title: Square Deal Sanderson
Character: Williams (as Thomas O'Brien)
Released: June 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Square Deal Sanderson is in pursuit of a horse thief, but someone else shoots the varmint before Sanderson can offer him a "square deal."
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Granny
Title: Granny
Released: August 25, 1914
Type: Movie
A country boarding house story