William H. O'Brien
Born July 19, 1891 · Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
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The Best Years of Our Lives
★ 7.81946
Ocean's Eleven
★ 6.41960
All About Eve
★ 8.11950
Airport
★ 6.51970
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
★ 7.31953
The Big Sleep
★ 7.61946
Pillow Talk
★ 7.11959
Judgment at Nuremberg
★ 8.01961
Dial M for Murder
★ 8.01954
Julius Caesar
★ 7.11953
Rio Lobo
★ 6.51970
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
★ 7.01971
Battle Cry
★ 5.71955
The Seven Year Itch
★ 7.01955
Fallen Angel
★ 6.61945
The Picture of Dorian Gray
★ 7.11945
The Comic
★ 6.11969
The Far Country
★ 6.91954
Undercurrent
★ 5.91946
The High and the Mighty
★ 5.91954
Carrie
★ 6.51952
The Children's Hour
★ 7.61961
Canyon Passage
★ 6.71946
A Star Is Born
★ 7.11954
Ace in the Hole
★ 7.81951
Little Caesar
★ 6.91931
Father of the Bride
★ 7.01950
Sorry, Wrong Number
★ 6.81948
The Harder They Fall
★ 7.21956
Topaz
★ 6.01969
The Thin Man
★ 7.51934
The Climax
★ 5.51944
The Bad and the Beautiful
★ 7.31952
A Place in the Sun
★ 7.31951
Red-Headed Woman
★ 6.61932
Valley of the Dolls
★ 6.01967
San Francisco
★ 6.61936
Elmer Gantry
★ 7.31960
Gypsy
★ 6.31962
In Society
★ 5.91944
Horizons West
★ 6.41952
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
★ 6.31951
Dressed to Kill
★ 6.61946
Action in the North Atlantic
★ 7.01943
The Firefly
★ 6.51937
Kitty
★ 5.71945
The Woman in Green
★ 6.51945
The Star
★ 7.31952
Superman and the Mole Men
★ 5.41951
The Falcon Takes Over
★ 6.31942
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
★ 7.11947
Sweet Smell of Success
★ 7.61957
The Showdown
★ 6.01940
Murder by Contract
★ 6.81958
The Bounty Hunter
★ 6.81954
A Night at the Opera
★ 7.41935
The Spider Woman
★ 7.01943
The Trespasser
★ 6.91929
The Man in the Iron Mask
★ 7.11939
It's Always Fair Weather
★ 7.01955
The Helen Morgan Story
★ 5.31957
Captain Swagger
★ 7.01928
Support Your Local Gunfighter
★ 6.61971
Ball of Fire
★ 7.41941
Gunpoint
★ 6.21966
The Men
★ 7.01950
The Time of Their Lives
★ 7.11946
Frenchie
★ 6.01950
Wells Fargo
★ 5.51937
Illegal
★ 6.41955
Woman's World
★ 7.21954
Road to Rio
★ 6.81947
Who Was That Lady?
★ 6.41960
Midnight Mary
★ 6.91933
The Unsuspected
★ 6.71947
Angel on My Shoulder
★ 6.51946
Only Yesterday
★ 7.31933
Désirée
★ 6.61954
The Hoodlum Saint
★ 5.51946
Pot o' Gold
★ 5.61941
Trouble Along the Way
★ 6.11953
Topper Returns
★ 6.41941
The Last Hurrah
★ 7.21958
Zero Hour!
★ 6.71957
Ex-Lady
★ 6.31933
So Proudly We Hail
★ 5.91943
The Walking Dead
★ 6.31936
The Tattered Dress
★ 5.51957
Pressure Point
★ 6.51962
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
★ 6.01955
Body and Soul
★ 6.71947
A Song to Remember
★ 6.41945
The Thin Man Goes Home
★ 7.11944
City for Conquest
★ 6.91940
He Ran All the Way
★ 7.21951
Test Pilot
★ 6.61938
Two Sisters from Boston
★ 6.31946
The Strange Door
★ 6.11951
Munster, Go Home!
★ 6.41966
Designing Woman
★ 6.71957
The Blot
★ 6.31921
Daddy Long Legs
★ 6.41955
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
★ 6.61949
Hollywood Story
★ 6.71951
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
★ 6.21955
Christmas Holiday
★ 6.51944
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
★ 6.21947
Dirigible
★ 5.51931
I Walk Alone
★ 6.61947
Bombers B-52
★ 5.81957
There's Always Tomorrow
★ 7.21956
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
★ 5.71957
The Big Broadcast of 1938
★ 6.41938
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
★ 5.31949
On the Riviera
★ 6.11951
Critic's Choice
★ 5.71963
Chicago Confidential
★ 5.01957
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
★ 5.81966
Edison, the Man
★ 6.81940
His Family Tree
★ 5.71935
Something to Live For
★ 6.91952
It Started with Eve
★ 7.21941
Daisy Kenyon
★ 6.61947
Sincerely Yours
★ 5.91955
The Unholy Wife
★ 4.71957
Flamingo Road
★ 7.11949
Race Street
★ 6.01948
The Mysterious Lady
★ 7.31928
The Leopard Man
★ 6.51943
It's a Great Feeling
★ 6.01949
One Night in the Tropics
★ 5.61940
Shakedown
★ 6.41950
A Chump at Oxford
★ 6.91940
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
★ 6.31939
Iron Man
★ 6.21951
No Time for Love
★ 7.01943
The Trouble with Girls
★ 4.81969
She-Wolf of London
★ 5.61946
The Wheeler Dealers
★ 6.31963
The Todd Killings
★ 4.61971
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
★ 6.41961
Take a Letter, Darling
★ 6.61942
Turnabout
★ 6.01940
Special Agent
★ 9.01949
One of Our Spies Is Missing
★ 5.61966
Cry Tough
★ 6.11959
Diamond Jim
★ 6.51935
Pack Up Your Troubles
★ 6.81932
Government Girl
★ 5.71943
Million Dollar Baby
★ 6.31941
In Old Chicago
★ 6.71938
Undercover Maisie
★ 8.01947
Jungle Goddess
★ 2.91948
Swing Shift Maisie
★ 6.81943
The Square Jungle
★ 6.11955
You Gotta Stay Happy
★ 6.81948
Merrily We Go to Hell
★ 6.51932
Eternally Yours
★ 5.91939
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
★ 6.21947
Do You Love Me
★ 4.71946
The Naughty Nineties
★ 6.71945
The Rage of Paris
★ 5.81938
The Doolins of Oklahoma
★ 6.81949
Smart Money
★ 6.81931
Ivy
★ 6.61947
Hong Kong
★ 5.11952
Keep 'Em Flying
★ 6.11941
Captain Caution
★ 5.71940
Movie Crazy
★ 6.41932
The Gay Deception
★ 6.31935
Emma
★ 6.61932
Money, Women and Guns
★ 5.81958
Daybreak
★ 4.31931
The Country Doctor
★ 6.51936
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
★ 6.31960
Maisie Gets Her Man
★ 6.71942
Anything Goes
★ 6.01956
Gold Is Where You Find It
★ 7.01938
Home Before Dark
★ 7.01958
Lady for a Night
★ 5.51942
Special Investigator
★ 5.41936
Carnival Rock
★ 4.71957
Mexican Spitfire Out West
★ 5.01940
The Earl of Chicago
★ 6.31940
Woman in Hiding
★ 6.31950
West of Broadway
★ 6.81931
Hit Parade of 1941
★ 6.21940
The Racket
★ 6.51928
Bachelor Bait
★ 6.51934
The Feminine Touch
★ 5.11941
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
★ 6.31944
The Story on Page One
★ 5.11959
Forty Little Mothers
★ 6.51940
The Damned Don't Cry
★ 7.01950
Go Into Your Dance
★ 7.21935
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
★ 6.51950
Lady on a Train
★ 6.71945
Fort Ti
★ 7.01953
Let's Dance
★ 6.11950
While the City Sleeps
★ 6.31928
Remember?
★ 6.01939
Ladies' Man
★ 4.61931
The Wet Parade
★ 6.21932
Once More, My Darling
★ 6.51949
Vagabond Lady
★ 7.41935
The Joker is Wild
★ 8.11957
Johnny Allegro
★ 6.41949
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
★ 5.61934
Reaching for the Moon
★ 5.71930
Bannerline
★ 6.81951
The Delicious Little Devil
★ 5.71919
That's Right – You're Wrong
★ 6.31939
City of Chance
★ 5.61940
Alias the Champ
★ 7.31949
Zorro's Fighting Legion
★ 5.41939
Love Thy Neighbor
★ 7.31940
No Time for Comedy
★ 5.31940
Nobody Lives Forever
★ 6.41946
Men Call It Love
★ 6.01931
Louisa
★ 6.51950
Sin Takes a Holiday
★ 5.61930
Monkey Business
★ 7.01931
Hollywood Mystery
★ 5.81934
Curtain Call
★ 7.31940
The Patsy
★ 6.71928
Buck Benny Rides Again
★ 5.01940
Faithless
★ 7.01932
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
★ 5.61957
Strictly Unconventional
★ 4.31930
Niagara Falls
★ 6.81941
New York Confidential
★ 6.01955
The Road to Reno
★ 4.01931
Hired Wife
★ 6.81940
A Woman of Affairs
★ 6.51928
The Mad Whirl
★ 6.61925
Anna Christie
★ 6.01930
Margin for Error
★ 6.31943
Stronger Than Desire
★ 5.51939
The Singing Fool
★ 5.01928
Girl from Rio
★ 4.81939
New Moon
★ 5.81930
Dance Charlie Dance
★ 8.01937
The Half-Naked Truth
★ 5.11932
Shadow of Doubt
★ 6.61935
Brooklyn Orchid
★ 6.71942
Big Time Or Bust
★ 5.71933
Champagne Charlie
★ 5.41936
Street of Chance
★ 6.81930
Larceny on the Air
★ 7.01937
Let Us Be Gay
★ 4.11930
The Arizonian
★ 8.01935
Playboy of Paris
★ 7.01930
Children of Pleasure
★ 5.51930
The Sky Raiders
★ 5.31931
The Guilty Generation
★ 6.21931
Forgotten Women
★ 8.01931
The Phantom of Paris
★ 6.01931
The Tiger Woman
★ 5.81945
Sinner Take All
★ 4.91936
Long Lost Father
★ 5.91934
To Beat the Band
★ 10.01935
North of the Rio Grande
★ 6.71937
Sing, Baby, Sing
★ 6.01936
Tomorrow We Live
★ 4.91942
The Blonde from Singapore
★ 5.81941
Honeymoon in Bali
★ 7.51939
Submarine
★ 5.81928
The Old Homestead
★ 10.01935
The Misses Stooge
★ 10.01935
Five and Ten
★ 6.11931
Anybody's Woman
★ 6.61930
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
★ 7.61933
Hollywood Scout
★ 8.01945