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Pat O'Brien

Pat O'Brien

American film actor (1899-1983)

William Joseph Patrick O'Brien was an American film actor with more than 100 screen credits. Of Irish descent, he often played Irish and Irish-American characters and was referred to as "Hollywood's Irishman in Residence" in the press. One of the best-known screen actors of the 1930s and 1940s, he played priests, cops, military figures, pilots, and reporters. He is especially well-remembered for his roles in Knute Rockne, All American (1940), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and Some Like It Hot (1959). He was frequently paired onscreen with Hollywood star and close friend James Cagney. O'Brien also appeared on stage and television.

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Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 99 films (1930–1965) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 13 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1938 GARDEN OF THE MOON. Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. 10 reels B&W
1938 HAWAIIAN BUCKAROO. Principal Productions Inc. 7 reels 16mm B&W Sound
1938 Juvenile court. Columbia Pictures Corp. 6 reels 16mm B&W sound
1939 INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY. warner brothers 10 reels B&W
1939 OFF THE RECORD. Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. 8 reels B&W
1939 Slightly Honorable LCA 88 min. 16mm B&W
1939 THE KID FROM KOKOMO. First National. 10 reels B&W
1939 THE NIGHT OF NIGHTS. Paramount Pictures Inc. 9 reels B&W
1940 'Til We Meet Again. Edmund Goulding 12 reels B&W
1940 Castle On The Hudson. Anatole Litvak 8 reels B&W
1940 Escape To Glory. John Brahm 8 reels B&W
1940 Flowing Gold. Alfred E. Green 9 reels B&W
1940 Knute Rockne--all American. Lloyd Bacon 3024 16mm B&W sound
1940 Knute Rockne—All American. Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard 11 reels. B&W
1940 Slightly Honorable. Tay Garnett 9 reels B&W
1940 The fighting 69th. warner bros. 3240 16mm B&W sound
1940 Torrid Zone. William Keighley 10 reels B&W
1942 Broadway. William A. Seiter 10 reels 16mm B&W Sound
1942 Flight Lieutenant. Sidney Salkow 9 reels B&W
1942 The Navy Comes Through. A. Edward Sutherland 82 min. B&W
1942 Two Yanks In Trinidad. Gregory Ratoff 9 reels B&W
1943 Bombardier. Richard Wallace 99 min. B&W
1943 The Iron Major Ray Enright 85 B&W
1943 The Iron Major. Ray Enright 85 min. B&W
1944 Having Wonderful Crime. A. Edward Sutherland 70 min. B&W
1944 Marine Raiders. Harold Schuster 91 min. B&W
1944 Secret Command. A. Edward Sutherland 9 reels B&W
1945 Man alive Ray Enright 70 min B&W
1945 Man Alive. Ray Enright 70 min. B&W
1946 Crack Up. Irving Reis 93 min. 35mm B&W sound
1946 Perilous Holiday. Edward H. Griffith 9 reels B&W
1947 Riffraff. Ted Tetzlaff 80 min. 35mm B&W sound
1948 Fighting Father Dunne. Ted Tetzlaff 93 min. 35mm B&W sound
1948 The Boy With Green Hair Joseph Losey 82 Color
1948 The Boy With Green Hair. Joseph Losey 82 min. 35mm Color sound
1949 A Dangerous Profession Ted Tetzlaff 79 B&W
1949 A Dangerous Profession. Ted Tetzlaff 79 min. 35mm B&W sound
1950 Fireball Tay Garnett
1950 Johnny One-Eye. Cahuenga Productions Inc. 78 min. 35mm B&W sound
1951 The People Against O’hara. Loew's Inc. 102 min 35mm B&W sound
1952 [Okinawa] Leigh Jason 67 min B&W
1952 Okinawa. Columbia Pictures Corp. 67 min. 35mm B&W sound
1956 Inside Detroit. Columbia Pictures Corp. 10 reels 35mm B&W sound
1957 Kill Me Tomorrow Terence Fisher 80 min B&W
1958 The Last Hurrah. Columbia Pictures Corp. 121 min 35mm B&W sound
1959 Some like it hot MGM/UA 1:21 16mm Color sound
1959 SOME LIKE IT HOT. Ashton Productions Inc. 120 min 35mm B&W sound
1965 Town tamer. Paramount Pictures Corp. & A. C. Lyles Productions Inc. 89 min 35mm Color sound
Airmail Universal 72 min 16mm B&W Sound