Eugene O'Brien
From Wikipedia 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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- 1961 · The Legend of Rudolph Valentino as Self (archive footage)
- 1927 · The Romantic Age as Stephen Winslow
- 1926 · Flames as Herbert Landis
- 1926 · Fine Manners as Brian Alden
- 1925 · Siege as Kenyon Ruyland
- 1925 · Graustark as Grenfall Lorry
- 1925 · Dangerous Innocence as Major Seymour
- 1925 · Souls for Sables as Fred Garlan
- 1924 · The Only Woman as Rex Herrington
- 1924 · Secrets as John Carlton
- 1923 · The Voice from the Minaret as Andrew Fabian
- 1922 · John Smith as John Smith
- 1922 · Channing of the Northwest as Channing
- 1921 · Clay Dollars as
- 1921 · The Last Door as The Magnet
- 1920 · The Wonderful Chance as Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
- 1919 · The Broken Melody as Stewart Grant
- 1919 · Sealed Hearts as Jack Prentiss
- 1919 · Fires of Faith as Harry Hammond, a Broker
- 1918 · Little Miss Hoover as Major Adam Baldwin
- 1918 · Under the Greenwood Tree as Jack Hutton
- 1918 · The Spirit That Wins as The Soldier
- 1918 · Her Only Way as Joseph Marshall
- 1918 · The Safety Curtain as Captain Merryon
- 1918 · A Romance of the Underworld as Thomas McDonald
- 1918 · De Luxe Annie as Jimmy Fitzpatrick
- 1918 · By Right of Purchase as Chadwick Himes
- 1918 · The Ghosts of Yesterday as Howard Marston
- 1917 · The Moth as Cpt. Bridgey
- 1917 · Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm as Adam Ladd
- 1917 · Poppy as Sir Evelyn Carson
- 1916 · The Rise of Susan as Clavering Gordon
- 1916 · The Chaperon as Jim Ogden
- 1916 · The Return of Eve as Adam
- 1916 · The Scarlet Woman as Robert Blake
- 1916 · Poor Little Peppina as Hugh Carroll
- 1915 · Just Out of College as Edward Worthington Swinger
- 1915 · The Moonstone as