William H. O'Brien
Department: Acting
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
1934
He Ran All the Way
1951
Alias the Champ
1949
Ball of Fire
1941
It Started with Eve
1941
Topaz
1969
She-Wolf of London
1946
Lady for a Night
1942
The Unsuspected
1947
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
1955
Hong Kong
1952
The Strange Door
1951
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
Bannerline
1951
Gunpoint
1966
Rio Lobo
1970
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
Big Time Or Bust
1933
Five and Ten
1931
The Unholy Wife
1957
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944
Chicago Confidential
1957
Do You Love Me
1946
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1957
The Firefly
1937
The Mysterious Lady
1928
There's Always Tomorrow
1956
Lady on a Train
1945
Shadow of Doubt
1935
Illegal
1955
Remember?
1939
Fort Ti
1953
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
1949
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
Who Was That Lady?
1960
The Tattered Dress
1957
Topper Returns
1941
Let's Dance
1950
Reaching for the Moon
1930
The Half-Naked Truth
1932
Cry Tough
1959
Ladies' Man
1931
Murder by Contract
1958
Frenchie
1950
New Moon
1930
Long Lost Father
1934
The Gay Deception
1935
Ivy
1947
The Graduate
1967
Strictly Unconventional
1930
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953
The Wheeler Dealers
1963
Hollywood Mystery
1934
Ocean's Eleven
1960
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
Money, Women and Guns
1958
Louisa
1950
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
The Story on Page One
1959
The Blot
1921
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
The Misses Stooge
1935
Special Investigator
1936
Wells Fargo
1937
While the City Sleeps
1928
The Singing Fool
1928
To Beat the Band
1935
His Family Tree
1935
Stronger Than Desire
1939
The Blonde from Singapore
1941
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1955
Carrie
1952
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
1957
Champagne Charlie
1936
Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939
Playboy of Paris
1930
Shakedown
1950
A Star Is Born
1954
All About Eve
1950
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939
Girl from Rio
1939
Gypsy
1962
That's Right – You're Wrong
1939
Honeymoon in Bali
1939
Eternally Yours
1939
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1933
Valley of the Dolls
1967
The Far Country
1954
Men Call It Love
1931
The Country Doctor
1936
The Last Hurrah
1958
Race Street
1948
Witness for the Prosecution
1957
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
Daybreak
1931
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
Zero Hour!
1957
Emma
1932
The Joker is Wild
1957
Niagara Falls
1941
Street of Chance
1930
Forgotten Women
1931
Rebecca
1940
Woman in Hiding
1950
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
1966
The Earl of Chicago
1940
North of the Rio Grande
1937
Edison, the Man
1940
High Noon
1952
On the Riviera
1951
The Showdown
1940
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
The Patsy
1928
Battle Cry
1955
Special Agent
1949
Jungle Goddess
1948
Ace in the Hole
1951
Fallen Angel
1945
The Square Jungle
1955
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
Government Girl
1943
Red-Headed Woman
1932
The Arizonian
1935
City for Conquest
1940
No Time for Comedy
1940
A Chump at Oxford
1940
Hired Wife
1940
One Night in the Tropics
1940
Turnabout
1940
Captain Caution
1940
Love Thy Neighbor
1940
City of Chance
1940
Captain Swagger
1928
Anybody's Woman
1930
Dance Charlie Dance
1937
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936
No Time for Love
1943
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
The Tiger Woman
1945
Citizen Kane
1941
Diamond Jim
1935
Sinner Take All
1936
Trouble Along the Way
1953
Once More, My Darling
1949
The Road to Reno
1931
Curtain Call
1940
Forty Little Mothers
1940
The Trespasser
1929
The Woman in Green
1945
The Feminine Touch
1941
Elmer Gantry
1960
Children of Pleasure
1930
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940
The Star
1952
Bombers B-52
1957
Brooklyn Orchid
1942
The Phantom of Paris
1931
San Francisco
1936
Hollywood Scout
1945
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
Woman's World
1954
A Place in the Sun
1951
The Walking Dead
1936
Daisy Kenyon
1947
Airport
1970
Let Us Be Gay
1930
The Seven Year Itch
1955
The Harder They Fall
1956
The Trouble with Girls
1969
Scarface
1932
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
A Woman of Affairs
1928
Margin for Error
1943
So Proudly We Hail
1943
The Spider Woman
1943
Undercurrent
1946
Faithless
1932
The Rage of Paris
1938
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939
Pillow Talk
1959
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
Only Yesterday
1933
Johnny Allegro
1949
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
Angel on My Shoulder
1946
Anna Christie
1930
Ex-Lady
1933
The Big Sleep
1946
Hollywood Story
1951
Father of the Bride
1950
Bachelor Bait
1934
Body and Soul
1947
Tomorrow We Live
1942
Keep 'Em Flying
1941
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947
In Society
1944
The Naughty Nineties
1945
The Time of Their Lives
1946
Some Like It Hot
1959
The Wet Parade
1932
A Song to Remember
1945
The Racket
1928
Road to Rio
1947
I Walk Alone
1947
Take a Letter, Darling
1942
In Old Chicago
1938
The Children's Hour
1961
Dial M for Murder
1954
Dressed to Kill
1946
Sabrina
1954
Nobody Lives Forever
1946
Pot o' Gold
1941
Smart Money
1931
Home Before Dark
1958
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
Something to Live For
1952
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
Designing Woman
1957
Pressure Point
1962
Go Into Your Dance
1935
It's Always Fair Weather
1955
Superman and the Mole Men
1951
The Old Homestead
1935
Carnival Rock
1957
Monkey Business
1931
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960
A Night at the Opera
1935
Anything Goes
1956
Kitty
1945
Daddy Long Legs
1955
The Falcon Takes Over
1942
Movie Crazy
1932
The Climax
1944
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932
Hit Parade of 1941
1940
The Guilty Generation
1931
Swing Shift Maisie
1943
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
Flamingo Road
1949
Undercover Maisie
1947
The High and the Mighty
1954
New York Confidential
1955
The Men
1950
Test Pilot
1938
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938
Munster, Go Home!
1966
It's a Great Feeling
1949
Horizons West
1952
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
Canyon Passage
1946
Sin Takes a Holiday
1930
Vagabond Lady
1935
Midnight Mary
1933
The Mad Whirl
1925
The Todd Killings
1971
The Leopard Man
1943
The Delicious Little Devil
1919
The Comic
1969
West of Broadway
1931
Larceny on the Air
1937
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
Désirée
1954
Julius Caesar
1953
The Bounty Hunter
1954
Critic's Choice
1963
Dirigible
1931
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
Iron Man
1951
Christmas Holiday
1944
Submarine
1928
The Sky Raiders
1931
Little Caesar
1931
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
Laredo
1965
Get Smart
1965
Outlaws
1960
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
Dr. Kildare
1961