1880-11-14 Boulder, Colorado, USA
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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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | Self (archive footage) | 1961-05-24 |
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The Faithless Lover | Austin Kent | 1928-01-01 |
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The Romantic Age | Stephen Winslow | 1927-06-05 |
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Fine Manners | Brian Alden | 1926-08-29 |
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Flames | Herbert Landis | 1926-09-15 |
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Siege | Kenyon Ruyland | 1925-09-27 |
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Dangerous Innocence | Major Seymour | 1925-04-12 |
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Graustark | Grenfall Lorry | 1925-08-30 |
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Souls for Sables | Fred Garlan | 1925-01-01 |
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Secrets | John Carlton | 1924-03-24 |
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The Only Woman | Rex Herrington | 1924-10-25 |
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The Voice from the Minaret | Andrew Fabian | 1923-01-28 |
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The Prophet's Paradise | Howard Anderson | 1922-02-28 |
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Channing of the Northwest | Channing | 1922-04-10 |
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John Smith | John Smith | 1922-06-01 |
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Clay Dollars | Bruce Edwards | 1921-10-19 |
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Worlds Apart | Hugh Ledyard | 1921-01-01 |
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Is Life Worth Living? | Melville Marley | 1921-09-01 |
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Gilded Lies | Keene McComb | 1921-03-04 |
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The Last Door | The Magnet | 1921-05-10 |
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Broadway and Home | Michael Strange | 1920-12-10 |
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A Fool and His Money | John B. Smart | 1920-03-29 |
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The Wonderful Chance | Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow | 1920-09-27 |
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His Wife's Money | Richard Flint | 1920-02-01 |
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The Figurehead | Sheridan Dow | 1920-06-14 |
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Come Out of the Kitchen | Burton Crane | 1919-05-11 |
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The Perfect Lover | Brian Lazar | 1919-09-20 |
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Fires of Faith | Harry Hammond, a Broker | 1919-08-03 |
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Sealed Hearts | Jack Prentiss | 1919-11-16 |
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The Broken Melody | Stewart Grant | 1919-12-01 |
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Little Miss Hoover | Major Adam Baldwin | 1918-12-29 |
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Her Only Way | Joseph Marshall | 1918-08-18 |
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Under the Greenwood Tree | Jack Hutton | 1918-12-08 |
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By Right of Purchase | Chadwick Himes | 1918-02-01 |
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The Ghosts of Yesterday | Howard Marston | 1918-01-19 |
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A Romance of the Underworld | Thomas McDonald | 1918-06-30 |
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The Spirit That Wins | The Soldier | 1918-10-01 |
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The Safety Curtain | Captain Merryon | 1918-07-10 |
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De Luxe Annie | Jimmy Fitzpatrick | 1918-05-19 |
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Adam Ladd | 1917-09-22 |
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Poppy | Sir Evelyn Carson | 1917-05-04 |
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The Moth | Cpt. Bridgey | 1917-10-01 |
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The Chaperon | Jim Ogden | 1916-11-20 |
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The Return of Eve | Adam | 1916-10-16 |
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Poor Little Peppina | Hugh Carroll | 1916-03-02 |
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The Rise of Susan | Clavering Gordon | 1916-12-18 |
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The Scarlet Woman | Robert Blake | 1916-05-29 |
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The Moonstone | Franklin Blake | 1915-06-21 |
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Just Out of College | Edward Worthington Swinger | 1915-08-01 |
