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Edmond O'Brien

Edmond O'Brien

Highest Rated:
100% The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Lowest Rated:
40% Rio Conchos (1964)
Birthday:
Sep 10, 1915
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Reportedly a neighbor of Harry Houdini while growing up in the Bronx, American actor Edmond O'Brien decided to emulate Houdini by becoming a magician himself. The demonstrative skills gleaned from this experience enabled O'Brien to move into acting while attending high school. After majoring in…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 40% - 100%
Number of Movies: 58
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 Fantastic Voyage
  • Actor
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1998 50 Years: The Best of Hollywood
  • Actor
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1996 Wild Bunch
  • Actor
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1975 Dream No Evil
  • Actor
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1974 99 And 44/100% Dead (Call Harry Crown)
  • Actor
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1973 Lucky Luciano
  • Harry J. Anslinger
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1972 They Only Kill Their Masters
  • George
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1969 The Love God?
  • Osborn Tremaine
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1969 98% The Wild Bunch
  • Sykes
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1966 Doomsday Flight
  • The Madman
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1966 92% Fantastic Voyage
  • General Carter
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1964 40% Rio Conchos
  • Col. Theron Pardee
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1964 100% Seven Days in May
  • Sen. Raymond Clark
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1962 82% Birdman of Alcatraz
  • Tom Gaddis
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1962 93% The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Dutton Peabody
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1962 Moon Pilot
  • McClosky
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1962 92% The Longest Day
  • Gen. Raymond O. Barton
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1961 The Great Imposter
  • Capt. Glover
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1960 The Last Voyage
  • 2nd Engineer Walsh
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1959 Up Periscope
  • Stevenson
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1957 The Big Land (Stampeded)
  • Joe Jagger
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1957 Comedian
  • Actor
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1957 Lux Video Theatre - "To Have and Have Not"
  • Actor
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1957 Stopover Tokyo
  • George Underwood
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1956 D-Day: The Sixth of June
  • Col. Timmer
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1956 A Cry in the Night
  • Dan Taggart
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1956 75% The Girl Can't Help It
  • Marty Murdock
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1956 1984
  • Winston Smith
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1956 The Rack
  • Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick
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1955 Pete Kelly's Blues
  • Director
  • Fran McCarg
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1954 Shield for Murder
  • Barney Nolan
  • Director
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1954 100% The Barefoot Contessa
  • Oscar Muldoon
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1953 The Bigamist
  • Harry Graham
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1953 100% Julius Caesar
  • Casca
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1953 100% The Hitch-Hiker
  • Ray Collins
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1953 Man in the Dark (The Man Who Lived Twice)
  • Steve Rawley
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1952 The Turning Point
  • John Conroy
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1951 Warpath
  • John Vickers
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1951 Denver and the Rio Grande
  • Jim Vesser
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1950 Edmond O'Brien Classics
  • Actor
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1950 711 Ocean Drive
  • Mal Granger
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1950 Backfire
  • Steve Connolly
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1950 Between Midnight and Dawn
  • Dan Purvis
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1950 The Admiral Was a Lady
  • Jimmie Stevens
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1949 100% White Heat
  • Hank Fallon/Vic Pardo
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1949 Edmond O'Brien Film Noir
  • Actor
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1949 95% D.O.A.
  • Frank Bigelow
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1948 Fighter Squadron
  • Maj. Ed Hardin
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1948 For the Love of Mary
  • Lt. Tom Farmington
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1947 71% A Double Life
  • Bill Friend
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1947 The Web
  • Bob Regan
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1946 100% The Killers
  • Jim Reardon
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1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
  • Tom Holliday
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1941 Girl, a Guy and a Gob
  • Stephen Herrick
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1939 100% The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Pierre Gringoire
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1938 Prison Break
  • Prisoner
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L'ambitieuse (The Ambitious One)
  • Actor
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The Hanged Man
  • Actor
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By 1975, O'Brien's health was deteriorating,though the cause of his mysterious illness was not diagnosed for some time.He discovered that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which eventually took his life on may 8, 1985. Edmond O'Brien had married twice and left behind three children.
- submitted by Tracey c (3 years ago)
While on location in the desert filming Lawrence of Arabia in 1961, he had a heart seizure and was forced to drop out of the project.His role as Jackson Bentley eventually went to Arthur Kennedy . By 1962. O'Brien was well enough to return to television in the legal drama Sam Benedict. He returned to the small screen again in 1965 in The Long Hot Summer.
- submitted by Tracey c (3 years ago)

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    1. Dutch: Well, I'd say those fellas know how to handle themselves!
    2. Sykes: They been fightin' Apaches for a thousand years. That's a sure way to learn.
    3. Pike: They ever get armed, with good leader, this whole country'll go up in smoke!
    4. Sykes: That it will son, that it will.
    From The Wild Bunch. Submitted by Dusan D (23 months ago)

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