William J. O'Brien

AKA:
0.3584

1884-01-31

Massachusetts, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {71}

Bettor in Pub (uncredited)

1944-06-09 5.573

The Invisible Man's Revenge

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Juror (uncredited)

1936-02-14 6

The Bridge of Sighs

Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of t ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Waiter (uncredited)

1951-12-06 4.7

I'll See You in My Dreams

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music

Juror (uncredited)

1943-05-10 6.4

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

Gildersleeve has jury duty. ...
Genre :Comedy

Pitchman (uncredited)

1949-03-29 7.333

The Set-Up

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Second Floor Polisher

1936-07-15 0

Mister Smarty

Mr. Bowser believes that he'll be able to clean the house better than his wife can. ...
Genre :Comedy

Hotel Clerk (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)

1952-08-07 6.78

O. Henry's Full House

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Stage Manager (uncredited)

1950-12-27 6.1

Gambling House

A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Townsman (uncredited)

1950-12-25 5.7

Frenchie

Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determine ...
Genre :Western

Bailiff (uncredited)

1947-06-26 6.6

Ivy

When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Police Detective (uncredited)

1949-01-12 6.1

The Accused

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Radio Listener (archive footage) (uncredited)

1956-06-13 6.1

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious ...
Genre :Action, Science Fiction

Bald Juror (uncredited)

1932-10-29 6.2

The Soilers

Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding little success going door-to-door, the pair decide to use their charms to sell to men at their places o ...
Genre :Comedy

Heinrich, General's Aide (uncredited)

1931-11-14 0

War Mamas

During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers. ...
Genre :Comedy

Counterman at Diner

1938-02-25 3.75

Night Spot

A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the head ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music, Crime

Man at Carnival (uncredited)

1933-05-13 4.8

Lilly Turner

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer. ...
Genre :Drama

Barker

1939-04-21 4.6

Zenobia

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bald Gambler

1938-09-23 6

Fugitives for a Night

A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive. ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance

Extra Sitting Next to Cramer at Two Meetings

1938-10-28 5

Tarnished Angel

A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled. ...
Genre :Drama

1947-07-16 6.51

They Won't Believe Me

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Card Player

1939-03-31 3

Silver on the Sage

Hoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown rustlers. Brennan/Talbot are twin brothers (one a casino owner, the other a rancher) and Hoppy believes they p ...
Genre :Western

Waiter (uncredited)

1951-09-17 5.796

Roadblock

An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime. ...
Genre :Crime

Casino Gambler (uncredited)

1939-05-05 6.6

Lucky Night

Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1929-08-10 5.625

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion. ...
Genre :Crime, Romance, Thriller

Townsman in Saloon (uncredited)

1940-07-26 5.4

Stage to Chino

To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible. ...
Genre :Western

Peanut Vendor (uncredited)

1949-12-12 6.8

Holiday Affair

Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Juror

1937-11-08 5.429

Portia on Trial

Lady lawyer Portia Merryman defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners, who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon. Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earl ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1950-02-21 5.4

The Secret Fury

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough e ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Man Drawing Shade in Window (uncredited)

1950-09-27 6.5

Outrage

A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Man Whistling in Hospital Zone (uncredited)

1937-02-13 6.7

The Great O'Malley

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien). ...
Genre :Drama

Man (uncredited)

1946-03-18 6.25

Deadline at Dawn

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Romance

Bus Passenger (uncredited)

1950-01-06 6.2

Woman in Hiding

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth ab ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama, Romance

Sandy

1936-10-16 6

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners. ...
Genre :Western

Party Waiter

1940-01-12 4.6

Mexican Spitfire

Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their ...
Genre :Comedy

Tim - Proprietor

1940-09-22 6

Triple Justice

Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad realizes he must escape and track down the real ki ...
Genre :Western, Drama, Music, Romance

Chris (uncredited)

1943-11-10 6.2

Happy Land

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existenc ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, War

Night Switchman

1943-05-07 7.176

This Land Is Mine

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Townsman Onlooker (uncredited)

1940-11-29 6.488

The Bank Dick

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothi ...
Genre :Comedy

Burlesk House Spectator (uncredited)

1940-08-30 6.4

Dance, Girl, Dance

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Extra in Audience at Benton's Lecture

1940-11-18 5.765

Phantom of Chinatown

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His l ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Waiter

1945-05-28 5.3

Flame of Barbary Coast

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After ...
Genre :Romance, Western

Musician

1932-12-24 5.5

Mr. Bride

Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley. ...
Genre :Comedy

Man hosing sidewalk (uncredited)

1941-10-31 6.9

I Wake Up Screaming

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Man at Cavendish Apartments (uncredited)

1946-04-16 6.65

The Blue Dahlia

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Townsman on Street / In Coffee Shop (uncredited)

1950-07-26 6.125

The Underworld Story

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Bartender (uncredited)

1941-06-13 5.868

Tom, Dick and Harry

Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind betw ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Bald Man

1943-10-08 5

Crazy House

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management an ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Bartender at Charity Ball (Uncredited)

1950-09-28 5.838

Born to Be Bad

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engage ...
Genre :Drama

Train Passenger (uncredited)

1945-07-20 5.833

The Falcon in San Francisco

While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl whose nurse has been recently murdered. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Vendor Eating Hot Dog (uncredited)

1949-10-08 5.6

Easy Living

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him. ...
Genre :Drama

Fight Spetator

1948-09-19 6

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Waiter at Party

1949-12-02 5

Dancing in the Dark

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptati ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Man in Barber Chair (uncredited)

1946-05-04 5.7

Badman's Territory

After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arri ...
Genre :Action, Western

Waiter at Sullivan's Grotto (uncredited)

1950-11-10 6.736

Woman on the Run

Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, El ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Passerby (uncredited)

1948-04-05 6.8

The Noose Hangs High

Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found o ...
Genre :Comedy

Bar Customer (uncredited)

1952-03-07 6.8

Something to Live For

Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threate ...
Genre :Drama

Customer at Sharpshooting Act (uncredited)

1950-01-20 7.435

Gun Crazy

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts af ...
Genre :Crime, Romance

Passerby on Street (Uncredited)

1952-10-31 5.8

Everything I Have Is Yours

A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway. ...
Genre :Drama

Bilmey

1931-05-01 0

Hell Bound

Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Counterman / Short Order Cook (uncredited)

1951-10-25 6.3

The Racket

The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Meat Clerk (Uncredited)

1936-12-01 6.2

Great Guy

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1949-12-10 5.6

A Dangerous Profession

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Bartender (uncredited)

1951-05-23 6

Hard, Fast and Beautiful!

When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis prodigy who could be Milly’s ticket to money and fam ...
Genre :Drama

Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

1949-08-20 5.887

It's a Great Feeling

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Barfly (uncredited)

1952-10-11 6.2

Horizons West

Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob ...
Genre :Western

Waiter at Bonner's Party (uncredited)

1946-12-20 6.305

The Locket

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Stage Doorman (uncredited)

1949-12-01 5.8

The Threat

A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Bartender (uncredited)

1945-10-25 5.9

Johnny Angel

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Andrew Lindsay (uncredited)

1951-09-23 6.85

You Never Can Tell

Ex-police/army dog King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring his killer to justice and p ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Barfly (uncredited)

1947-02-19 6.4

Trail Street

Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war. ...
Genre :Western

Cigarette Customer

1945-07-13 6

What, No Cigarettes

There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and reluctantly with Florence's mother and brother. Without Edgar's consent, Florence, mother and brother have ...
Genre :Comedy