Broderick O'Farrell

AKA: George William Broderick O'Farrell
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1882-07-12

Portland, Oregon, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {91}

Immigration Officer

1927-03-01 0

The Princess from Hoboken

To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. ...
Genre :Comedy

Party Guest (uncredited)

1941-09-26 7.172

It Started with Eve

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Governor

1925-06-14 0

Ridin' Thunder

When Bill Croft, a notorious gunfighter, is bushwhacked, innocent rancher Frank Douglas is accused of the crime on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to be hanged. Jack Douglas, Frank's son, sets o ...
Genre :Western

Juror (uncredited)

1943-05-10 6.4

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

Gildersleeve has jury duty. ...
Genre :Comedy

1934-02-09 0

The Super Snooper

Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't ...
Genre :Comedy

Frank, the Bederaux's Butler (uncredited)

1944-12-18 5.643

Experiment Perilous

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey ...
Genre :Romance, Thriller

Prosecutor

1929-06-08 6.2

Madame Q

An attractive young woman on trial for murder employs her feminine wiles to charm the judge and jury. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bar Customer (uncredited)

1944-01-28 7

Phantom Lady

A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Ft. Arid commander

1931-12-02 6.8

Beau Hunks

Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him. ...
Genre :Comedy

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

1928-04-27 7.3

The Man Who Laughs

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Horror

Mr. Reynolds

1935-08-09 5

The E-Flat Man

Elmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's actually owned by a wanted gangster. When they hear on the radio that the police are looking for th ...
Genre :Comedy

Bill Lee

1920-09-01 0

The Golden Trail

At the Golden Trail saloon in Alaska, Dave Langdon meets chorus girl Faro Kate who reminds him of his long-lost love, Jane Sunderlin. Meanwhile, back in the States, Harry Teal, scheming to steal a min ...
Genre :Drama

Minister (uncredited)

1935-07-16 5

Smart Girl

Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designi ...
Genre :Drama

Doctor (uncredited)

1931-06-13 6.2

Five and Ten

John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wif ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Resident Doctor (uncredited)

1934-04-06 6

Men in White

A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room mo ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Archibald

1946-03-07 6

Murder Is My Business

Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Action

John Dennis - Producer

1931-11-08 0

Queenie of Hollywood

Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted. Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea fi ...
Genre :Comedy

Judge (uncredited)

1934-04-29 5.3

Manhattan Love Song

After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Sir Henry Sheffield

1935-12-01 5

The Law of 45's

Lawyer Rontel has made Geologist Sheffield his prisoner and by power of attorney is using his money to buy the ranches of those driven off by his hired men. But when he goes after Hayden, Tucson and S ...
Genre :Western

Eddie - the Son

1932-03-20 2

Mother's Holiday

Mother's Holiday is a 1932 Comedy ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Judge

1936-06-13 4.4

Easy Money

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the comp ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Delegate

1924-11-03 9

Andy's Stump Speech

Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President. ...
Genre :Comedy

1948-12-09 6.5

Whispering Smith

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Mu ...
Genre :Western

Hargrave

1928-11-02 0

The Look Out Girl

The lookout girl for the notorious Mowbray gang tries to leave her gangster past by marrying a wealthy doctor, but her past catches up with her very quickly when the gang finds her. ...
Genre :Drama

Doctor

1930-06-01 4

Back Pay

Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Card Player

1930-02-01 3.5

Burning Up

Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang. ...
Genre :Romance, Action, Crime

John Barton

1929-02-24 0

Behind Closed Doors

Behind the doors of a foreign government's embassy in Washington D. C., a group of royal loyalists is attempting to raise funds to aid a counter-revolution and restore the deposed emperor in a new rep ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime

Bream's Chum at Cafe

1928-03-25 0

Midnight Madness

In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Doctor

1930-06-06 6.4

Shadow of the Law

John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has bee ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dr. Farrell

1937-04-02 7

The Man Who Found Himself

Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane t ...
Genre :Drama

Dinner Guest

1934-10-02 5

The Curtain Falls

In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing ...
Genre :Drama

Russell

1939-09-02 3.7

Dick Tracy's G-Men

A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Mystery

D. A. Graves

1939-06-10 4

Daredevils of the Red Circle

Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Member of Board of Directors

1931-01-31 0

Scandal Sheet

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Churchgoer

1935-11-23 5.2

Stars Over Broadway

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Surgeon

1936-10-22 6

Without Orders

At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fan ...
Genre :Drama

Investigator for Board of Directors

1931-08-01 6

The Public Defender

A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Poker Player

1928-07-21 6.2

The Mating Call

A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation. ...
Genre :Drama

Policeman

1939-01-10 5.3

The Mysterious Miss X

After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town. ...
Genre :Mystery

Victor Kittenhaven

1939-03-24 7.1

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music

Madame Catalini's Escort

1939-11-10 7.786

First Love

In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her sno ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Ship's Officer

1939-10-07 5.7

Eternally Yours

Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's co ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Desk Clerk (uncredited)

1937-04-30 4.5

You Can't Buy Luck

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Ship's Passenger (uncredited)

1936-10-09 7.305

Libeled Lady

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Party Guest (uncredited)

1941-05-23 6.9

Love Crazy

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Dining Car Steward (uncredited)

1947-12-15 7

The Judge Steps Out

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Henrys' Dinner Guest (uncredited)

1942-09-08 6.6

The Glass Key

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Chemical Analysist

1936-01-20 5

The Leavenworth Case

Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he plans to change his will and give away his fortune. ...
Genre :Mystery

Policeman (uncredited)

1945-11-15 6.5

Fallen Angel

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet an ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama, Romance

Gambler (uncredited)

1930-02-08 6.6

Street of Chance

'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addicti ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

(uncredited)

1936-04-09 7.541

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for ever ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Station master (uncredited)

1947-11-19 6.3

Mourning Becomes Electra

Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for ...
Genre :Drama

Chairman of the Court-Martial

1931-11-28 5.2

The Sea Ghost

A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Submarine U-67." ...
Genre :War, Action, Drama

Member Board of Trustees (uncredited)

1936-01-18 6

Freshman Love

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards. ...
Genre :Comedy

Office Worker

1940-09-13 6.8

Hired Wife

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorc ...
Genre :Comedy

Desert Springs Manager (uncredited)

1935-10-10 5

It's in the Air

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and ...
Genre :Comedy

Harris

1940-04-04 5.4

The Courageous Dr. Christian

A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out. ...
Genre :Drama

Minister in Dream Sequence (uncredited)

1940-08-16 6.5

Stranger on the Third Floor

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Elderly Man (uncredited)

1943-09-23 6

Dangerous Blondes

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Ambulance Doctor

1929-03-29 4.2

Chinatown Nights

Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Train Conductor (uncredited)

1947-07-31 5

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many other ...
Genre :Music

Member

1939-08-23 0

Our Leading Citizen

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son join ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Party Guest (uncredited)

1933-03-16 5.1

Secrets

In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Minister

1937-10-01 3

Sky Racket

A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action

Agent (uncredited)

1942-08-17 7

Call of the Canyon

A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast. ...
Genre :Western

Smith

1932-05-23 1

Gigolettes

Desperate for cash, three friends take a job running a run-down night club. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Hennessy

1942-01-31 6

Brooklyn Orchid

Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort. ...
Genre :Comedy

Concertgoer (uncredited)

1935-05-31 5.5

Break of Hearts

Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Race Track Official (uncredited)

1925-11-29 0

Sporting Life

A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter or a racehorse in which he holds interests can save his fortunes. ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Jarvis

1934-11-11 6

The World Accuses

When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life. ...
Genre :

Night Club Patron

1943-06-22 6.2

Crime Doctor

Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist. ...
Genre :Crime

Johnson

1936-08-01 5.8

It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)

When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime. ...
Genre :Crime

1934-06-01 0

Half-Baked Relations

A courtroom comedy! In this short we follow suspect Mr. Wilson (Clyde) as he explains the events leading to him hitting brother-in-law Homer Healy (Jack Shutta) with a monkey wrench. This was Andy Cly ...
Genre :Comedy

Conductor

1938-01-16 4.5

The Jury's Secret

A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Romance

Townsman

1937-09-26 0

Behind the Mike

Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Howard Kent

1934-04-01 4.4

Badge of Honor

Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Official (Uncredited)

1939-11-08 6.5

Rulers of the Sea

The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century. ...
Genre :Drama

1924-03-21 7

The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios

The City of Stars is structured as a "coming attractions" promo within the fictional framework of an Eastern editor (vaudeville actor Broderick O'Farrell) arriving in Los Angeles to meet with Universa ...
Genre :History, Documentary

Man at Table (uncredited)

1945-10-05 5.7

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bootleg Financial Backer (uncredited)

1932-03-26 5.8

The Wet Parade

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Man in Audience (uncredited)

1945-02-19 1

A Song for Miss Julie

Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Doorman (uncredited)

1940-07-05 0

Private Affairs

A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Usher (uncredited)

1946-06-06 6

Two Sisters from Boston

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Mar ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Putnam Associate (uncredited)

1933-03-04 5.5

Reform Girl

A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Dr. Campbell (Uncredited)

1947-04-14 5

Philo Vance Returns

Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Action

Mr. Wilkins

1926-04-18 6.7

Skinner's Dress Suit

Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's going to ask for a raise, she knows he'll get it. He asks his boss just as their big client announces he's not renewing his con ...
Genre :Comedy

Dr. Howell

1935-01-31 5.3

A Shot in the Dark

An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Art Dealer (uncredited)

1931-03-27 4.7

Laugh and Get Rich

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bond Agent

1931-05-30 6.8

Fly My Kite

A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates. ...
Genre :Comedy

Roscoe Wingate

1926-11-05 0

The Smoke Eaters

A society couple lose their two-year old son in ship-fire and a fireman, finding the child, adopts him. The society couple adopt a baby girl. Both children grow up and meet in later years but the girl ...
Genre :Action, Drama

2nd News Vendor (uncredited)

1931-04-16 4.3

Ladies' Man

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society." ...
Genre :Drama