
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).
Notable Appearances
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Easter Parade

Till the Clouds Roll By

They Were Expendable

A Night at the Opera

Made for Each Other

The Public Enemy

The Clock

Anchors Aweigh

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Desire

Dance, Girl, Dance

Undercurrent

The Thin Man Goes Home

Courage of Lassie

The Harvey Girls

Lady for a Day

Blonde Venus

The Lambs' All-Star Gambol

Picture Snatcher

Waikiki Wedding

The Beast of the City

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

No Time for Comedy

Main Street After Dark

We Who Are About to Die

I Take This Oath

The Hucksters

The Last Train from Madrid

You Can't Get Away with Murder

Gabriel Over the White House

Little Lord Fauntleroy

American Madness

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

The Lone Wolf Strikes

Slightly Dangerous

The Arm of the Law

The Mysterious Mr. Wong

Penthouse

Return of the Terror

Wells Fargo

New Faces of 1937

High Wall

The Human Comedy

A Gun in His Hand

The Kid from Spain

Merton of the Movies

Trapped by G-Men

Best Foot Forward

Boys' Ranch

A Fugitive from Justice

Jackass Mail

Who Killed Who?

Maisie Gets Her Man

Streets of New York

Don't Bet on Love

Bed of Roses

Two Kinds of Women

Super-Sleuth

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Freedom of the Press

The Great American Mug

Star of Midnight

Our Blushing Brides

The Lone Wolf Returns

Air Raid Wardens

Midnight Mary

Whistling in Brooklyn

Rationing

Swing Shift Maisie

The Public Defender

The Big House

Up the River

Tenth Avenue Angel

Boy of the Streets

Park Avenue Logger

The Big Shakedown

Girl Overboard

Sergeant Madden

Diamond Jim

Night World

Trail Street

Stolen Harmony

The Crime Nobody Saw

The Hoodlum Saint

A Wicked Woman

The Dark Horse

Waterfront Lady

High Barbaree

The Omaha Trail

In the Next Room

Barbary Coast Gent

Taxi!

Hot Steel

Gentle Annie

Blessed Event

The Big Timer

The Isle of Lost Ships

The Big Fight

Jailbreak

Bottoms Up

Week-End Marriage

Paid

Up Goes Maisie

Sinner Take All

Professor Beware

Inflation

Frisco Jenny

Double Alibi

The Big Brain

Weary River

Fanny Foley Herself

Framed

Man to Man

Tin Gods

His Royal Slyness

The Singing Fool

The Greatest Gift

Alias French Gertie

Smiling Irish Eyes

White Lies

The Frame-Up

The Noose

Play Girl

Dressed to Kill

Three Who Loved

Four Walls

Shooting Straight

Shoe Shine Boy

The Single Sin

Return from Nowhere

At Sea Ashore




