Edmond O'Brien
Date of birth: 1915-09-10
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Edmund O'Brien, Edmond Joseph O'Brien, ادموند اوبراین
Biography
Edmond O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D.O.A. (1950). His many memorable films included The Killers, White Heat, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Wild Bunch. He also co-starred with Richard Rust in the NBC legal drama Sam Benedict, which aired during the 1962-1963 television season.
Movie Credits
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962-07-04
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement.
The Wild Bunch
1969-06-19
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappea
Fantastic Voyage
1966-08-24
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size
White Heat: Top of the World
2005-01-01
An examination of "White Heat" (1949) by film historians and critics.
1984
1956-03-06
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by fall
Shield for Murder
1954-08-27
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
Julius Caesar
1953-06-04
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassi
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962-04-13
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a sma
Seven Days in May
1964-02-01
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939-08-31
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beaut
The Comedian
1957-02-14
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demand
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982-05-21
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no acc
The Longest Day
1962-09-25
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the
Backfire
1950-01-26
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy S
The Barefoot Contessa
1954-09-29
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Varga
Two of a Kind
1951-07-01
A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.
The Love God?
1969-08-01
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who
The Web
1947-06-04
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec bein
The Hitch-Hiker
1953-03-30
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to
A Double Life
1947-12-25
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage takin
A Cry in the Night
1956-08-17
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
The 3rd Voice
1960-03-05
Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an
The Killers
1946-08-30
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede,
The Girl Can't Help It
1956-12-22
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star withi
711 Ocean Drive
1950-07-01
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a bet
Pete Kelly's Blues
1955-07-31
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy unt
An Act of Murder
1948-12-05
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.
The Turning Point
1952-07-12
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop fath
The Admiral Was a Lady
1950-08-04
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
Between Midnight and Dawn
1950-10-01
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreake
The Last Voyage
1960-02-19
The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972-11-22
An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by th
White Heat
1949-09-02
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his ol
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943-02-19
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
The Great Impostor
1960-12-23
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and w
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956-05-29
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances
Moon Pilot
1962-04-05
An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He im
Up Periscope
1959-03-04
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been
Man in the Dark
1953-04-09
Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it h
D.O.A.
1949-12-23
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hou
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974-08-29
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harr
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004-07-28
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to
The Rack
1956-11-02
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In
The Bigamist
1953-12-03
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of
Task Force
1949-08-30
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and
For the Love of Mary
1948-09-01
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Lucky Luciano
1973-10-19
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, t
The Hanged Man
1964-11-18
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union lead
Sylvia
1965-02-10
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederic
Fighter Squadron
1948-11-27
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promo
The Redhead and the Cowboy
1951-03-15
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets
Synanon
1965-05-05
A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House
The World Was His Jury
1958-01-01
A sea captain stands trial for manslaughter after 162 people are killed in a fire aboard his cruise
Powder Town
1942-06-07
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret fo
China Venture
1953-09-07
American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in
Another Part of the Forest
1948-05-18
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family go
Stopover Tokyo
1957-11-28
An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.
Denver and Rio Grande
1952-05-16
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a
Obliging Young Lady
1942-04-01
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor
Winged Victory
1944-12-22
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pi
Warpath
1951-11-22
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He fin
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941-03-14
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where sh
To Commit a Murder
1967-04-07
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
The Shanghai Story
1954-09-01
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel b
What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
1971-12-18
A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of so
Isn't It Shocking?
1973-10-02
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in
Parachute Battalion
1941-09-12
Pre-Pearl Harbor propaganda film about young Americans, from various social backgrounds, who undergo
The Viscount
1967-04-04
Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a ple
Sing Boy Sing
1958-02-21
The teenage son of a rural preacher becomes a huge Elvis-like rock 'n' roll star, but he has trouble
The Intruders
1970-11-10
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost b
The Big Land
1957-03-01
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads
The Doomsday Flight
1966-12-13
A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will expl
River of Mystery
1971-10-01
A couple of freelance explosives experts find jungle adventure while being stalked by a revolutionar
Jigsaw
1972-03-26
In this pilot for the 1972-73 series, a detective specializing in missing persons cases finds himsel
Cow Country
1953-04-25
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
The Other Side of the Wind
2018-11-02
Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad i
Something in the Wind
1947-07-21
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt,
Rio Conchos
1964-10-28
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on
Silver City
1951-12-01
Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry
Dark Stranger
1955-01-08
A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out.
Dream No Evil
1970-01-01
Grace is a troubled young lady with some serious daddy issues. She was adopted as a young girl and r
The Ambitious One
1959-10-14
This Yves Allegret film is set in French Polynesia and stars Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andre
Déjà-Vu
2000-03-29
A cinematic experience by Douglas Gordon - in which the film D.O.A. is screened simultaneously on th
The Outsider
1967-11-21
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple ca
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952-02-16
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though t
The Adventures of Gallegher
1965-01-24
An energetic newspaper copyboy in 1889 wants to become a reporter, and he is soon more deeply involv
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965-09-26
The young copyboy helps the town’s first female newspaper reporter, who is writing a series on confi
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996-11-01
Oscar nominated "Making of" documentary about Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010-05-05
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Acad
Under Capricorn
1949-09-08
A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind
A Ticket for Thaddeus
1956-05-09
A Polish refugee and new citizen gets involved in a slight car accident, but he doesn't fully unders
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
2022-06-14
Documentary on the History of Science Fiction Movies from The Day the Earth Stood Still onward.