Eugene O'Brien
Acting
Born 1880-11-14
Died 1966-04-29
Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Eugene O'Brien (Birthname: Louis O'Brien b. November 14, 1880 in Boulder, Colorado – d. April 29, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) was a silent film star and stage actor. He studied medicine at the University of Colorado at Boulder but was keener on the stage than becoming a doctor. O'Brien switched to civil engineering under his family's guidance, but his heart was still set on becoming an actor. He moved to New York City and was "discovered" by theatrical impresario Charles Frohman who signed O'Brien to a three-year contract and put him in The Builder of Bridges, which opened on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on October 26, 1909. O'Brien made his name playing opposite Ethel Barrymore, in a revival of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play Trelawny of the 'Wells', which opened at the Empire Theatre on New Year's Day, 1911. O'Brien's first film, Essanay Film's The Lieutenant Governor, in which he had the starring role, played in Boulder's Curran Theatre in February 1915, giving his family its first opportunity to see him act.[3][4] World Film Corp. chief executive Lewis J. Selznick made O'Brien a screen star, putting him in an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. Subsequently he was leading man opposite some of the leading female stars of the day, including Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge and Gloria Swanson and became a silent screen matinée idol. He retired from acting when the talkies came in, making his last film, Faithless Lover, in 1928 at 47 years old. For his work on movies, he received a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Filmography
Acting
49 credits
The Figurehead
Broadway and Home
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Come Out of the Kitchen
His Wife's Money
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Wonderful Chance
The Last Door
The Moth
The Perfect Lover
By Right of Purchase
The Prophet's Paradise
Worlds Apart
Fine Manners
Graustark
The Only Woman
Dangerous Innocence
Secrets
Clay Dollars
The Moonstone
Souls for Sables
A Fool and His Money
The Rise of Susan
Gilded Lies
The Voice from the Minaret
The Safety Curtain
Poppy
The Ghosts of Yesterday
Poor Little Peppina
Flames
Sealed Hearts
Little Miss Hoover
Fires of Faith
The Chaperon
Siege
Channing of the Northwest
Just Out of College
John Smith
Her Only Way
The Romantic Age
Is Life Worth Living?
The Scarlet Woman
The Faithless Lover
De Luxe Annie
The Return of Eve
A Romance of the Underworld
Under the Greenwood Tree
The Broken Melody
The Spirit That Wins
Writing
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