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George O'Brien (April 19, 1899 – September 4, 1985) [1] was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the sound film era of the 1930s, best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau 's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and subsequent appearances in a number of Westerns in the 1930s and 1940s.
- Actor, singer
- April 19, 1899, San Francisco, California, U.S.
- 1922–1964
- September 4, 1985 (aged 86), Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, U.S.
By the end of the 1930s, George was still a popular 'B' movie Cowboy Star, but he would not take the parts as seriously as he did a decade before. During World War II, he hung up his spurs, and he re-enlisted in the Navy where he fought in the Pacific and was decorated many times.
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- San Francisco, California, USA
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- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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Western movie star George O'Brien (1899-1985) started out and ended up working for director John Ford, with a long detour for movie series at Fox and RKO plus one strange little outing with none other than The Three Stooges. His RKO image was often as the husky, dark-clad cowboy with his hat tilted rackishly to one side, riding a horse named ...
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Biography. Muscular, barrel-chested, yet sensitively talented silent star whose breakthrough came with the lead role in John Ford's "The Iron Horse" (1924). O'Brien starred for Fox Studios in many films after that, reuniting with Ford for such films as "The Fighting Heart" (1925) and "Three Bad Men," as well as playing in Howard Hawks' dated ...
Comedy Family Western. On his way to Red Mesa to insure mine owners against loss from raids on their ore shipments, George O'Brien is ambushed by the raiders, and is accidentally saved by the Three Stooges who run a traveling variety store. O'Brien sells mine owner John Sawyer and his foreman Sandy Eva... Read all. Director. Edward Bernds. Writers.