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Eugene O'Brien
Boulder, Colorado, USA
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…
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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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2016
The Flag
Movie Writer
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2013
The Food Guide to Love
Movie Writer
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1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1928
The Faithless Lover
Movie Austin Kent
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1927
The Romantic Age
Movie Stephen Winslow
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1926
Flames
Movie Herbert Landis
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1926
Fine Manners
Movie Brian Alden
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1925
Siege
Movie Kenyon Ruyland
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1925
Graustark
Movie Grenfall Lorry
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1925
Dangerous Innocence
Movie Major Seymour
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1925
Souls for Sables
Movie Fred Garlan
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1924
The Only Woman
Movie Rex Herrington
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1924
Secrets
Movie John Carlton
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1923
The Voice from the Minaret
Movie Andrew Fabian
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1922
John Smith
Movie John Smith
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1922
Channing of the Northwest
Movie Channing
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1922
The Prophet's Paradise
Movie Howard Anderson
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1921
Clay Dollars
Movie Bruce Edwards
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1921
Is Life Worth Living?
Movie Melville Marley
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1921
The Last Door
Movie The Magnet
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1921
Gilded Lies
Movie Keene McComb
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1921
Worlds Apart
Movie Hugh Ledyard
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1920
Broadway and Home
Movie Michael Strange
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1920
The Wonderful Chance
Movie Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
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1920
The Figurehead
Movie Sheridan Dow
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1920
A Fool and His Money
Movie John B. Smart
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1920
His Wife's Money
Movie Richard Flint
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1919
The Broken Melody
Movie Stewart Grant
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1919
Sealed Hearts
Movie Jack Prentiss
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1919
The Perfect Lover
Movie Brian Lazar
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1919
Fires of Faith
Movie Harry Hammond, a Broker
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1919
Come Out of the Kitchen
Movie Burton Crane
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1918
Little Miss Hoover
Movie Major Adam Baldwin
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1918
Under the Greenwood Tree
Movie Jack Hutton
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1918
The Spirit That Wins
Movie The Soldier
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1918
Her Only Way
Movie Joseph Marshall
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1918
The Safety Curtain
Movie Captain Merryon
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1918
A Romance of the Underworld
Movie Thomas McDonald
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1918
De Luxe Annie
Movie Jimmy Fitzpatrick
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1918
By Right of Purchase
Movie Chadwick Himes
