
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Born March 18, 1885 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Emmett O'Connor (March 18, 1885 – September 4, 1962) was an American film actor. He appeared in 204 films between 1919 and 1950. He is probably best known as the warmhearted bootlegger Paddy Ryan in The Public Enemy (1931) and as Detective Sergeant Henderson pursuing the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera (1935). He also appeared as Jonesy (the older Paramount gate guard) in Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, as well as made a cameo appearance at the very beginning and very end of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short Who Killed Who? (1943).
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A Star Is Born

Dance, Girl, Dance

Desire

Easter Parade

Undercurrent

Till the Clouds Roll By

They Were Expendable

Anchors Aweigh

A Night at the Opera

Air Raid Wardens

Blonde Venus

Waikiki Wedding

Courage of Lassie

Little Lord Fauntleroy

The Harvey Girls

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Made for Each Other

Lady for a Day

Boys' Ranch

The Thin Man Goes Home

The Human Comedy

Who Killed Who?

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

Penthouse

The Hucksters

Up the River

Picture Snatcher

High Wall

Park Avenue Logger

Main Street After Dark

Trail Street

Adventure

American Madness

Girl Overboard

Midnight Mary

I Take This Oath

The Beast of the City

Slightly Dangerous

Gabriel Over the White House

Tenth Avenue Angel

Our Blushing Brides

You Can't Get Away with Murder

Wells Fargo

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

The Last Train from Madrid

The Big Fight

The Omaha Trail

Hot Steel

Swing Shift Maisie

Waterfront Lady

Super-Sleuth

Fanny Foley Herself

The Big House

Bed of Roses

The Lone Wolf Returns

Up Goes Maisie

Sergeant Madden

Two Kinds of Women

No Time for Comedy

The Big Shakedown

Diamond Jim

The Lone Wolf Strikes

Paid

Alias French Gertie

We Who Are About to Die

Stolen Harmony

The Great American Mug

A Fugitive from Justice

Taxi!

Jailbreak

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Best Foot Forward

Gentle Annie

Jackass Mail

The Hoodlum Saint

Man to Man

Sinner Take All

The Greatest Gift

New Faces of 1937

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Barbary Coast Gent

Blessed Event

Whistling in Brooklyn

The Frame-Up

Weary River

Shoe Shine Boy

The Dark Horse

High Barbaree

Night World

Frisco Jenny

White Lies

Bottoms Up

A Gun in His Hand

Star of Midnight

Professor Beware

Return of the Terror

Maisie Gets Her Man

Tin Gods

Boy of the Streets

The Crime Nobody Saw

The Kid from Spain

The Public Defender

Trapped by G-Men

Play Girl

The Singing Fool

Return from Nowhere

The Mysterious Mr. Wong

The Noose

Framed

The Isle of Lost Ships

A Wicked Woman

Double Alibi

Shooting Straight

Inflation

The Big Brain

Dressed to Kill

The Single Sin

His Royal Slyness

The Arm of the Law

Streets of New York

Four Walls

Smiling Irish Eyes

Week-End Marriage

Rationing

Freedom of the Press

At Sea Ashore

In the Next Room

The Booster

Merton of the Movies

Don't Bet on Love

Three Who Loved




