
George O'Brien
Born April 18, 1899 · San Francisco, California, USA
George O'Brien (April 19, 1899 – September 4, 1985) was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the talkie era of the 1930s, best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. He also starred in East Side, West Side (1927), The Johnstown Floor (1926), and John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924). The day before his seventh birthday the Great Earthquake of 1906 hit San Francisco. He and his family nearly died and were homeless for months. He served in World War I and World War II.
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Cheyenne Autumn

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Sharp Shooters

Hollywood Studios

True Heaven

The Only Girl in the Orchestra

Noah's Ark

The Iron Horse

Masked Emotions

Salute

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

3 Bad Men

My Wild Irish Rose

Thank You

Honor Bound

The Marshal Of Mesa City

Smoke Lightning

Riders of the Purple Sage

The Ghost Breaker

The Dude Ranger

The Dancers

Gold Raiders

The Ne'er-Do-Well

Seas Beneath

The 10 from Texas

The Johnstown Flood

Fig Leaves

The Lone Star Ranger

Triple Justice

Legion of the Lawless

East Side, West Side

Park Avenue Logger

Is Zat So?

Moran of the Lady Letty

Ebb Tide

The Silver Treasure

Mystery Ranch

Thunder Mountain

Stage to Chino

Painted Desert

Rough Romance

Robbers' Roost

The Cowboy Millionaire

Daniel Boone

The Man Who Came Back

The Fighting Heart

The Last of the Duanes

The Border Patrolman

The Sea Hawk

Paid to Love

O'Malley of the Mounted

December 7th

The Golden West

The Gay Caballero

Havoc

The Renegade Ranger

The Fighting Gringo

Arizona Legion

Woman-Proof

Border G-Man

The Painted Lady

Fair Warning

Shadows of Paris

Life in the Raw

When a Man's a Man

Bullet Code

Trouble in Sundown

The Blue Eagle

Racketeers of the Range

The Last Trail

Timber Stampede

The Rainbow Trail

Frontier Marshal

Gun Law

Hollywood Cowboy

Blindfold

Whispering Smith Speaks

A Holy Terror

Rustlin' for Cupid

Windjammer

The Roughneck

Lawless Valley

Prairie Law




