Edmond O’Brien

Edmond O'Brien Headshot

Actor

Birth Date: September 10, 1915

Death Date: May 9, 1985

Birth Place: New York City, New York

Spouses: Nancy Kelly

Talented leading man of the 1940s turned veteran Hollywood character player, at his best playing roles requiring sweat and strain. O'Brien joined Orson Welles' Mercury Players in 1937 and worked in film and on stage through the 1940s, turning primarily to the screen after WWII. He is best remembered as the impetuous young street poet in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939); the enterprising insurance investigator of "The Killers" (1946); the doomed lead in the noir classic, "D.O.A." (1949); the sycophantic Hollywood press agent in "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954), which won him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar; and for a string of weather-beaten character parts in the 70s. O'Brien was married to actresses Nancy Kelly and Olga San Juan; Maria O'Brien, his daughter by the latter, has appeared in several films.

Credits

The Other Side of the Wind

Actor
Pat Mullins
Movie
2018

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

Actor
Movie
1996

99 and 44/100 Percent Dead

Actor
Uncle Frank Kelly
Movie
1974

Police Story

Actor
Chief Frank Modeer
Series
1973

Cuánto Tiempo Ha Pasado

Actor
Movie
1973

Isn't It Shocking?

Actor
Justin Oates
Movie
1973

Dream No Evil

Actor
Timothy MacDonald
Movie
1973

The Streets of San FranciscoStream

Guest Star
Officer Gustav 'Gus' Charnovski, SFPD
Series
1972

They Only Kill Their Masters

Actor
George
Movie
1972

Jigsaw

Actor
Det. Ed Burtelson
Movie
1972

McMillan & Wife

Guest Star
Mr. Fontaine
Series
1971

What's a Nice Girl Like You...?

Actor
Morton Stillman
Movie
1971

To Commit a Murder

Actor
Sphax
Movie
1970

The Intruders

Actor
Col. William Bodeen
Movie
1970

The Wild BunchStream

Actor
Freddie Sykes
Movie
1969
91%

The Love God?

Actor
Osborn Tremaine
Movie
1969

River of Mystery

Actor
R.J. Twitchell
Movie
1969

The Name of the Game

Guest Star
Series
1968

The High Chaparral

Guest Star
Series
1967

The Outsider

Actor
Marvin Bishop
Movie
1967

El Vuelo Fatídico

Actor
Movie
1966

Fantastic VoyageStream

Actor
General Carter
Movie
1966
92%

The Doomsday Flight

Actor
The Man
Movie
1966

Sylvia

Actor
Oscar Stewart
Movie
1965

Synanon

Actor
Chuck Dederich
Movie
1965

The Hanged Man

Actor
Arnie Seeger
Movie
1964

Seven Days in MayStream

Actor
Sen. Raymond Clark
Movie
1964
92%

Gallegher V

Actor
Crowley
Movie
1964

The Man Who Shot Liberty ValanceStream

Actor
Dutton Peabody
Movie
1962
95%

Moon Pilot

Actor
McClosky
Movie
1962

Birdman of AlcatrazStream

Actor
Tom Gaddis
Movie
1962
91%

Target: The Corruptors

Guest Star
Show
1961

Man-TrapStream

Director
Movie
1961

The Great Impostor

Actor
Capt. Glover
Movie
1960

The Third Voice

Actor
The Voice
Movie
1960

The Last Voyage

Actor
Second Engineer Walsh
Movie
1960

LaramieStream

Guest Star
Captain Sam Prado
Series
1959

Up Periscope

Actor
Commander Paul Stevenson
Movie
1959

L'ambitieuse

Actor
Bucaille
Movie
1959

The World Was His Jury

Actor
Movie
1958

Sing, Boy, Sing

Actor
Joseph Sharkey
Movie
1958

Playhouse 90: The Comedian

Actor
Show
1957

The Comedian

Actor
Show
1957

Stopover Tokyo

Actor
George Underwood
Movie
1957

The Big LandStream

Actor
Joe Jagger
Movie
1957

Zane Grey TheaterStream

Actor
Series
1956

D-Day, the Sixth of June

Actor
Lt. Col. Alexander Timmer
Movie
1956

The Rack

Actor
Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick
Movie
1956

The Girl Can't Help It

Actor
Marty "Fatso" Murdock
Movie
1956

Cry in the Night

Actor
Captain Dan Taggart
Movie
1956

1984

Actor
Winston Smith of the Outer Party
Movie
1956

Screen Directors Playhouse

Actor
Show
1955

The Star and the Story

Actor
Show
1955

Pete Kelly's Blues

Actor
Fran McCarg
Movie
1955

Climax!Stream

Actor
Series
1954

The Barefoot ContessaStream

Actor
Oscar Muldoon
Movie
1954
100%

The Shanghai Story

Actor
Dr. Dan Maynard
Movie
1954

Shield for Murder

Actor
Det. Lt. Barney Nolan
Movie
1954

Shield for Murder

Director
Movie
1954

The Hitch-HikerStream

Actor
Roy Collins
Movie
1953
94%

Cow Country

Actor
Ben Anthony
Movie
1953

Julius CaesarStream

Actor
Casca
Movie
1953
96%

Man in the Dark

Actor
Steve Rawley
Movie
1953

China Venture

Actor
Capt. Matt Reardon
Movie
1953

The Bigamist

Actor
Harry Graham/Harrison Graham
Movie
1953

I've Got a SecretStream

Guest
Game Show
1952

Denver & Rio Grande

Actor
Jim Vesser
Movie
1952

The Turning Point

Actor
John Conroy
Movie
1952

Schlitz Playhouse

Director
Show
1951

Schlitz Playhouse

Guest Star
Jim Reardon
Show
1951

Warpath

Actor
John Vickers
Movie
1951

Two of a Kind

Actor
Michael "Lefty" Farrell
Movie
1951

Silver City

Actor
Larkin Moffatt
Movie
1951

The Redhead and the Cowboy

Actor
Maj. Dunn Jeffers
Movie
1950

Between Midnight and Dawn

Actor
Officer Dan Purvis
Movie
1950

711 Ocean Drive

Actor
Mal Granger
Movie
1950

The Admiral Was a Lady

Actor
Jimmy Stevens
Movie
1950

Backfire

Actor
Steve Connolly
Movie
1950

El Almirante era una Dama

Actor
Jimmy Stevens
Movie
1950

D.O.A.

Actor
Frank Bigelow
Movie
1949

White HeatStream

Actor
Vic Pardo/Hank Fallon
Movie
1949
97%

Fighter Squadron

Actor
Maj Ed Hardin
Movie
1948

Another Part of the Forest

Actor
Benjamin "Ben" Hubbard
Movie
1948

An Act of Murder

Actor
David Douglas
Movie
1948

For the Love of Mary

Actor
Lt. Tom Farrington
Movie
1948

The Web

Actor
Bob Regan
Movie
1947

A Double Life

Actor
Bill Friend
Movie
1947

The KillersStream

Actor
Jim Reardon (investigator)
Movie
1946
100%

Winged Victory

Actor
Irving Miller
Movie
1944

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Actor
Tom Holliday
Movie
1943

Powder Town

Actor
J. Quincy "Penji" Pennant
Movie
1942

Parachute Battalion

Actor
William Mayberry `'Bill'` Burke
Movie
1941

Obliging Young Lady

Actor
`Red" Reddy
Movie
1941

A Girl, a Guy and a Gob

Actor
Stephen Herrick
Movie
1941

The Hunchback of Notre DameStream

Actor
Gringoire
Movie
1939
94%

Prison Break

Actor
Movie
1938