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As found in O’Brien’s autobiography, The Wind at My Back: The Life and Times of Pat O’Brien, his three favorite movie roles were those in The Front Page, Knute Rockne All American, and William Keighley’s adventure drama The Fighting 69th, co-starring James Cagney and George Brent. Pat O’Brien died at age 83 on Oct. 15, 1983, in Santa ...
O'Brien spent several years with numerous stock companies, forming lasting friendships with such future Hollywood notables as Frank McHugh, James Gleason and Percy Kilbride. He also met his wife, actress Eloise Taylor, with whom he remained for the next five decades. In 1930, O'Brien was brought to Hollywood to play ace reporter Hildy Johnson ...
Pat O'Brien was born on 14 February 1948 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. He is an actor, known for Big Fat Liar (2002), BASEketball (1998) and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004). He has been married to Linda since 7 July 1973.
Pat O'Brien was a film actor who made over 100 movies in a long career, often playing Irish characters, although he, himself was American born and bred. Biography Pat O'Brien was born William Joseph Patrick O'Brien on November 11, 1899 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin into an Irish-American family. All four of his grandparents were immigrants from Ireland.
They entered a career in action, and O'Brien played vaudeville as a dancer before moving on to the Broadway stage in the early 1920s. Although some biographies report that O'Brien's first movies were in 1919, these are hard to confirm since there was another actor that used the name Pat O'Brien back in those days.
Pat O'Brien. AKA William Joseph Patrick O'Brien. Born: 11-Nov-1899 Birthplace: Milwaukee, WI Died: 15-Oct-1983 Location of death: Santa Monica, CA Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, CA. Gender: Male Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor ...
- November 11, 1899
- October 15, 1983
In The Front Page. …reporter Hildy Johnson (played by Pat O’Brien), who is quitting his job in Chicago to move to New York City with his fiancée Peggy (Mary Brian), despite the insistent protests of his editor, Walter Burns (Adolphe Menjou). When Hildy shows up at the city courthouse after his last day of…. Read More.
