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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Secrets
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Fine Manners
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
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The Moth
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Sealed Hearts
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Poor Little Peppina
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The Safety Curtain
as Captain MerryonPuck is a music hall dancer, married to an abusive husband. One night the music hall catches...
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The Only Woman
as Rex HerringtonA 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott.
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The Ghosts of Yesterday
as Howard MarstonAfter his wife/model has died of starvation with her portrait unfinished, an impoverished artist...
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Graustark
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Under the Greenwood Tree
as Jack HuttonActing on her love of nature and loathing of titled fortune hunters, heiress Mary Hamilton...
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The Chaperon
as Jim OgdenJim Ogden, secretly engaged to Madge Hemmingway, wealthy heiress, becomes sensitive over his...
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By Right of Purchase
as Chadwick HimesA 1918 film directed by Charles Miller.
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Her Only Way
as Joseph MarshallThe Westbrook family has been ruined financially, and when the daughter Lucille comes home from...
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The Wonderful Chance
as Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' BarlowUpon leaving prison, an ex con vows to go straight, but circumstances force him to return to...
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De Luxe Annie
as Jimmy FitzpatrickA 1918 film directed by Roland West.
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John Smith
as John SmithUpon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for...
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Channing of the Northwest
as ChanningA foppish Londoner joins the Royal Canadian Mounties and tries to break a smuggling ring.
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The Return of Eve
as AdamBelieving that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire,...
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The Romantic Age
as Stephen WinslowEngaged to middle-aged Eugene O'Brien, Alberta Vaughn develops a yen for O'Brien's handsome...
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The Rise of Susan
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The Broken Melody
as Stewart GrantStewart, an art student in the "bohemian" Greenwich Village in New York City, lives next door to...
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The Voice from the Minaret
as Andrew FabianLord Carlyle governs a province in India. Although he weds the beautiful Adrienne, he can't make...
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Little Miss Hoover
as Major Adam BaldwinLittle Miss Hoover is a 1918 American silent romantic drama film directed by John S. Robertson...
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