Eugene O'Brien

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.

  • Title: Eugene O'Brien
  • Popularity: 0.65
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1880-11-14
  • Place of Birth: Boulder, Colorado, USA
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  • Also Known As: Louis O'Brien
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Eugene O'Brien Movies

  • 1926
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    Flames

    Flames

    1 1926 HD

    Railroad builder James Travers (George Nichols) wants his pretty daughter, Anne (Virginia Valli), to marry Herbert Landis, a young engineer (Eugene...

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  • 1922
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    John Smith

    John Smith

    1 1922 HD

    Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social...

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  • 1961
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    The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

    The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

    1 1961 HD

    A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

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  • 1916
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    The Chaperon

    The Chaperon

    1 1916 HD

    Jim Ogden, secretly engaged to Madge Hemmingway, wealthy heiress, becomes sensitive over his lack of money and breaks the engagement. In a moment of...

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  • 1916
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    The Return of Eve

    The Return of Eve

    1 1916 HD

    Believing that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire, took two unrelated orphan children, a boy and a girl,...

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  • 1924
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    Secrets

    Secrets

    5.5 1924 HD

    An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her...

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  • 1916
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    Poor Little Peppina

    Poor Little Peppina

    5.2 1916 HD

    Holding a grudge against Robert Torrens and his wife, who live in Italy, a member of the Mafia kidnaps their infant daughter Lois. Fifteen years...

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  • 1918
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    Under the Greenwood Tree

    Under the Greenwood Tree

    1 1918 HD

    Acting on her love of nature and loathing of titled fortune hunters, heiress Mary Hamilton leaves home with her secretary, Peggy Ingledew, to join a...

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  • 1918
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    The Spirit That Wins

    The Spirit That Wins

    1 1918 HD

    Elsie gets a letter from her soldier boyfriend that convinces her to sign up as a Red Cross nurse.

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  • 1919
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    Sealed Hearts

    Sealed Hearts

    1 1919 HD

    Frank Prentiss, a multi-millionaire who hates and distrusts women, convinces his adopted son, Jack, that they are detrimental to a man's success. The...

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  • 1926
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    Fine Manners

    Fine Manners

    7.5 1926 HD

    The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.

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  • 1918
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    A Romance of the Underworld

    A Romance of the Underworld

    1 1918 HD

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  • 1920
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    The Wonderful Chance

    The Wonderful Chance

    5.4 1920 HD

    Upon leaving prison, an ex con vows to go straight, but circumstances force him to return to crime. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks kidnaps a visiting...

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  • 1917
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    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

    5.8 1917 HD

    Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised...

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  • 1918
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    The Safety Curtain

    The Safety Curtain

    6 1918 HD

    Puck is a music hall dancer, married to an abusive husband. One night the music hall catches fire. Puck is rescued by an army officer and her husband...

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  • 1927
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    The Romantic Age

    The Romantic Age

    1 1927 HD

    Engaged to middle-aged Eugene O'Brien, Alberta Vaughn develops a yen for O'Brien's handsome younger brother Stanley Taylor. But when Taylor succumbs...

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  • 1925
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    Souls for Sables

    Souls for Sables

    1 1925 HD

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  • 1916
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    The Rise of Susan

    The Rise of Susan

    1 1916 HD

    Susan takes the place of model and shows the clothes so well that she is asked to impersonate a Countess at a reception given by a customer.

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  • 1921
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    Clay Dollars

    Clay Dollars

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1925
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    Siege

    Siege

    1 1925 HD

    A stern old woman, who owns the largest factory in a small town and has ruled both the factory and the town with an iron hand, finds herself battling...

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  • 1925
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    Dangerous Innocence

    Dangerous Innocence

    1 1925 HD

    Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Liverpool to Bombay, India, and falls in love with...

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  • 1918
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    By Right of Purchase

    By Right of Purchase

    1 1918 HD

    A 1918 film directed by Charles Miller.

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  • 1917
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    Poppy

    Poppy

    1 1917 HD

    A 1917 film directed by Edward José

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  • 1918
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    The Ghosts of Yesterday

    The Ghosts of Yesterday

    1 1918 HD

    After his wife/model has died of starvation with her portrait unfinished, an impoverished artist meets another woman with a striking resemblance to...

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  • 1918
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    Her Only Way

    Her Only Way

    1 1918 HD

    The Westbrook family has been ruined financially, and when the daughter Lucille comes home from boarding school, she finds herself in a terrible...

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  • 1917
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    The Moth

    The Moth

    1 1917 HD

    Spoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until she falls in love with a man who loves only her money....

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  • 1918
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    De Luxe Annie

    De Luxe Annie

    1 1918 HD

    A 1918 film directed by Roland West.

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  • 1923
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    The Voice from the Minaret

    The Voice from the Minaret

    1 1923 HD

    Lord Carlyle governs a province in India. Although he weds the beautiful Adrienne, he can't make her love him. And no wonder -- he's not only cruel,...

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  • 1924
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    The Only Woman

    The Only Woman

    1 1924 HD

    A 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott.

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  • 1922
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    Channing of the Northwest

    Channing of the Northwest

    1 1922 HD

    A foppish Londoner joins the Royal Canadian Mounties and tries to break a smuggling ring.

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  • 1919
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    The Broken Melody

    The Broken Melody

    1 1919 HD

    Stewart, an art student in the "bohemian" Greenwich Village in New York City, lives next door to his girlfriend Hedda, who wants to be a singer. One...

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  • 1921
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    The Last Door

    The Last Door

    1 1921 HD

    The Last Door (1921)

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  • 1916
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    The Scarlet Woman

    The Scarlet Woman

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1925
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    Graustark

    Graustark

    1 1925 HD

    An American falls for the princess of the Kingdom of Graustark, and decides to her marriage to a dastardly prince.

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  • 1915
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    The Moonstone

    The Moonstone

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1918
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    Little Miss Hoover

    Little Miss Hoover

    5 1918 HD

    Little Miss Hoover is a 1918 American silent romantic drama film directed by John S. Robertson and stars Marguerite Clark. The film is based on the...

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  • 1919
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    Fires of Faith

    Fires of Faith

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1915
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    Just Out of College

    Just Out of College

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1919
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    The Perfect Lover

    The Perfect Lover

    1 1919 HD

    Brian Lazar returns to his shabby dwelling after pawning a valuable ring. A woman, accompanied by a detective, accuses him of being a thief, but,...

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  • 1921
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    Gilded Lies

    Gilded Lies

    1 1921 HD

    When Keene McComb, a young explorer on an expedition to the North Pole, is given up for lost, his fiancée, Hester Thorpe, is coerced by an...

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  • 1920
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    His Wife's Money

    His Wife's Money

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1921
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    Worlds Apart

    Worlds Apart

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1920
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    A Fool and His Money

    A Fool and His Money

    1 1920 HD

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  • 2013
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    The Food Guide to Love

    The Food Guide to Love

    5.4 2013 HD

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  • 2016
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    The Flag

    The Flag

    9 2016 HD

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