Acting · Boulder, Colorado, USA · Born November 14, 1880
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.
MovieThe Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
as Self (archive footage)
The Faithless Lover
1928
as Austin Kent
MovieThe Romantic Age
1927
as Stephen Winslow
MovieFlames
1926
as Herbert Landis
MovieFine Manners
1926
as Brian Alden
MovieSiege
1925
as Kenyon Ruyland
MovieGraustark
1925
as Grenfall Lorry
MovieDangerous Innocence
1925
as Major Seymour
MovieSouls for Sables
1925
as Fred Garlan
MovieThe Only Woman
1924
as Rex Herrington
MovieSecrets
1924
as John Carlton
MovieThe Voice from the Minaret
1923
as Andrew Fabian
MovieJohn Smith
1922
as John Smith
MovieChanning of the Northwest
1922
as Channing
MovieThe Prophet's Paradise
1922
as Howard Anderson
MovieClay Dollars
1921
as Bruce Edwards
MovieIs Life Worth Living?
1921
as Melville Marley
MovieThe Last Door
1921
as The Magnet
MovieGilded Lies
1921
as Keene McComb
MovieWorlds Apart
1921
as Hugh Ledyard
Broadway and Home
1920
as Michael Strange
MovieThe Wonderful Chance
1920
as Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
MovieThe Figurehead
1920
as Sheridan Dow
MovieA Fool and His Money
1920
as John B. Smart
MovieHis Wife's Money
1920
as Richard Flint
MovieThe Broken Melody
1919
as Stewart Grant
MovieSealed Hearts
1919
as Jack Prentiss
MovieThe Perfect Lover
1919
as Brian Lazar
MovieFires of Faith
1919
as Harry Hammond, a Broker
MovieCome Out of the Kitchen
1919
as Burton Crane
MovieLittle Miss Hoover
1918
as Major Adam Baldwin
MovieUnder the Greenwood Tree
1918
as Jack Hutton
The Spirit That Wins
1918
as The Soldier
MovieHer Only Way
1918
as Joseph Marshall
MovieThe Safety Curtain
1918
as Captain Merryon
MovieA Romance of the Underworld
1918
as Thomas McDonald
MovieDe Luxe Annie
1918
as Jimmy Fitzpatrick
MovieBy Right of Purchase
1918
as Chadwick Himes
MovieThe Ghosts of Yesterday
1918
as Howard Marston
MovieThe Moth
1917
as Cpt. Bridgey
MovieRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917
as Adam Ladd
MoviePoppy
1917
as Sir Evelyn Carson
MovieThe Rise of Susan
1916
as Clavering Gordon
MovieThe Chaperon
1916
as Jim Ogden
MovieThe Return of Eve
1916
as Adam
MovieThe Scarlet Woman
1916
as Robert Blake
MoviePoor Little Peppina
1916
as Hugh Carroll
MovieJust Out of College
1915
as Edward Worthington Swinger
MovieThe Moonstone
1915
as Franklin Blake
