
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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A Night at the Opera

The Public Enemy

Anchors Aweigh

Till the Clouds Roll By

A Star Is Born

Waikiki Wedding

The Clock

Easter Parade

The Human Comedy

The Harvey Girls

Undercurrent

Dance, Girl, Dance

Who Killed Who?

Courage of Lassie

Air Raid Wardens

The Thin Man Goes Home

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Park Avenue Logger

Made for Each Other

The Last Train from Madrid

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Blonde Venus

Lady for a Day

Slightly Dangerous

The Hoodlum Saint

Swing Shift Maisie

Our Blushing Brides

Tenth Avenue Angel

Picture Snatcher

Return of the Terror

Boys' Ranch

Trail Street

The Big House

Bed of Roses

Fanny Foley Herself

The Hucksters

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

No Time for Comedy

Super-Sleuth

Paid

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

American Madness

A Gun in His Hand

Star of Midnight

The Beast of the City

High Wall

Girl Overboard

Wells Fargo

Midnight Mary

New Faces of 1937

Taxi!

You Can't Get Away with Murder

The Big Fight

Main Street After Dark

Sergeant Madden

The Lone Wolf Returns

Barbary Coast Gent

Up Goes Maisie

Diamond Jim

Adventure

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Hot Steel

Two Kinds of Women

Penthouse

Weary River

Gabriel Over the White House

Whistling in Brooklyn

The Lone Wolf Strikes

A Wicked Woman

Jailbreak

The Singing Fool

I Take This Oath

Week-End Marriage

Up the River

A Fugitive from Justice

Professor Beware

Blessed Event

Frisco Jenny

Rationing

Sinner Take All

We Who Are About to Die

Merton of the Movies

Gentle Annie

High Barbaree

Don't Bet on Love

The Dark Horse

Double Alibi

The Noose

The Big Shakedown

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Bottoms Up

Framed

Waterfront Lady

Man to Man

Streets of New York

His Royal Slyness

The Public Defender

Play Girl

The Kid from Spain

Maisie Gets Her Man

The Greatest Gift

The Crime Nobody Saw

Boy of the Streets

Jackass Mail

The Big Brain

The Big Timer

The Omaha Trail

The Mysterious Mr. Wong

The Frame-Up

The Arm of the Law

Night World

White Lies

Shooting Straight

The Great American Mug

Stolen Harmony

Best Foot Forward

Three Who Loved

Inflation

Trapped by G-Men

Alias French Gertie

Smiling Irish Eyes

Return from Nowhere

Tin Gods

The Single Sin

The Isle of Lost Ships

Dressed to Kill

Freedom of the Press

Shoe Shine Boy

Four Walls

At Sea Ashore

In the Next Room




