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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 10, 1899
Died
October 15, 1983
Place of Birth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Also Known As
- William Joseph Patrick O'Brien
- Пэт О’Брайен
Pat O’Brien
0.7 Popularity
Biography
Pat O’Brien (born William Joseph Patrick O'Brien) was an American stage, screen, radio, and television actor. He was a star during the first several years of his film career, the height of his popularity being during the 1930s and 1940s.
Known For
5.5
Self (archive footage)
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013
8.5
Self (archive footage)
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
8.3
Self (archive footage)
Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?
2005
5.6
Self
Dill Scallion
1999
6.5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
🎬
10.0
Self
James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy
1981
7.0
Delmas
Ragtime
1981
5.5
Mr. Caboose
Scout's Honor
1980
7.5
WKRP in Cincinnati
1978
5.5
Ben Lawson
The End
1978
Credits
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
as Self (archive footage)
2013
5.5
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self (archive footage)
2008
8.5
Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?
as Self (archive footage)
2005
8.3
Dill Scallion
as Self
1999
5.6
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
6.5
🎬
James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy
as Self
1981
10.0
Ragtime
as Delmas
1981
7.0
Scout's Honor
as Mr. Caboose
1980
5.5
WKRP in Cincinnati
1978
7.5
The End
as Ben Lawson
1978
5.5
Billy Jack Goes to Washington
as President of the Senate
1977
6.3
Kiss Me, Kill Me
as Jimmy, the morgue attendant
1976
7.0
The Sky's the Limit
as Abner Therman
1975
0.0
Happy Days
1974
7.6
Amanda Fallon
as Emory
1973
0.0
Banyon
1972
7.0
The Adventures of Nick Carter
as Hallelujah Harry
1972
3.5
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
as Sgt. McGll
1972
8.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
6.9
The Phynx
as Pat O’Brien
1970
3.5
McCloud
1970
7.1
The Over the Hill Gang
as Captain Oren Hayes
1969
5.6
Town Tamer
as Judge Murcott
1965
6.4
Branded
1965
6.4
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Lt. John Curwood
1963
5.3
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Inspector Dan Zarilla
1963
5.3
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.7
Going My Way
1962
5.7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.4
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
5.8
The Virginian
as J. Jimerson Jones
1962
6.5
The Virginian
as Doc Bigelow
1962
6.5
The Road to Hong Kong
as Chinese Restaurateur (uncredited)
1962
5.7
Babe Ruth Story: That Ever Livin' Babe
as Narrator
1962
0.0
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
🎬
The Best of the Post
as Mike Breen
1960
0.0
Harrigan and Son
1960
0.0
I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
as Self
1959
9.0
Some Like It Hot
as Detective Mulligan
1959
8.1
The Last Hurrah
as John Gorman
1958
7.1
Kraft Music Hall
as Self
1958
4.7
Kill Me Tomorrow
as Bart Crosbie
1957
5.2
Telephone Time
1956
6.3
Inside Detroit
as Gus Linden
1956
6.0
Science Fiction Theatre
1955
6.2
Climax!
as Police Lieutenant Moore
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Ed Talbot
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Police Lieutenant
1954
3.3
Ring of Fear
as Frank Wallace
1954
5.0
Jubilee Trail
as Ernest 'Texas' Conway
1954
4.8
General Electric Theater
as Major Irish
1953
6.3
The Ford Television Theatre
as Lt. V. Keever
1952
7.3
This Is Your Life
as Self
1952
6.5
Okinawa
as Lt. Cmdr. Hale
1952
4.8
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as John Wentworth
1951
7.3
The People Against O'Hara
as Det. Vincent Ricks
1951
5.7
Criminal Lawyer
as James 'Jimmy' Regan
1951
6.7
The Fireball
as Father O'Hara
1950
5.8
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Tim Larkin
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Captain Barnaby
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Joe Crandall
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as George Morrell
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Charley Hackett
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Eddie Gorman
1950
6.3
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
Johnny One-Eye
as Martin Martin
1950
4.9
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
A Dangerous Profession
as Joe Farley
1949
5.6
The Boy with Green Hair
as Gramp Fry
1948
6.2
Studio One
as Mike Waterson
1948
5.0
🎬
Ford Theatre
1948
0.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Fighting Father Dunne
as Father Peter J. Dunne
1948
6.0
Blow-Ups of 1947
as Self
1947
6.3
Riff-Raff
as Dan Hammer
1947
6.2
Crack-Up
as George Steele
1946
5.6
Perilous Holiday
as Patrick Nevil
1946
0.0
Man Alive
as Michael O'Flaherty 'Speed' McBride
1945
5.1
Having Wonderful Crime
as Michael J. Malone
1945
6.3
Secret Command
as Sam Gallagher
1944
6.8
Marine Raiders
as Maj. Steve Lockhart
1944
6.8
His Butler's Sister
as Martin Murphy
1943
7.1
The Iron Major
as Francis William 'Frank' / 'Cav' Cavanaugh
1943
5.8
Bombardier
as Chick Davis
1943
5.5
The Navy Comes Through
as Chief Michael 'Mike' Mallory
1942
5.6
Flight Lieutenant
as Samuel J. 'Sam' Doyle
1942
6.0
Broadway
as Dan McCorn
1942
5.5
Two Yanks in Trinidad
as Tim Reardon
1942
2.0
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
7.0
Breakdowns of 1940
as Self
1940
4.0
Knute Rockne All American
as Knute Rockne
1940
6.1
Flowing Gold
as Ian 'Hap' O'Connor
1940
7.0
Escape to Glory
as Mike Farrough
1940
6.0
Torrid Zone
as Steve Case
1940
6.4
'Til We Meet Again
as Steve Burke
1940
6.2
Castle on the Hudson
as Warden Walter Long
1940
6.8
The Fighting 69th
as Father Duffy
1940
5.4
Breakdowns of 1939
as Self
1939
7.0
Slightly Honorable
as John Webb
1939
4.7
The Night of Nights
as Dan O'Farrell
1939
0.0
Indianapolis Speedway
as Joe Greer
1939
5.0
The Kid from Kokomo
as William Jennings 'Billy / 'Square Shooting Murph' Murphy
1939
6.0
Off the Record
as Thomas "Breezy" Elliott
1939
6.0
Breakdowns of 1938
as Pat O'Brien (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
5.0
Swingtime in the Movies
as Himself (uncredited)
1938
5.9
Angels with Dirty Faces
as Jerry Connolly
1938
7.5
Garden of the Moon
as John Quinn
1938
5.8
Boy Meets Girl
as J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson
1938
6.5
Cowboy from Brooklyn
as Roy Chadwick
1938
4.0
Out Where the Stars Begin
as Pat O'Brien
1938
6.6
Women Are Like That
as Bill Landin
1938
5.7
Breakdowns of 1937
as Self
1937
6.0
Submarine D-1
as Butch Rogers
1937
4.7
Back in Circulation
as Bill Morgan
1937
5.3
Slim
as Red Blayd
1937
6.3
San Quentin
as Capt. Stephen Jameson
1937
6.5
The Great O'Malley
as James Aloysius 'Jim' / 'Jimmy' O'Malley
1937
6.7
Breakdowns of 1936
as Self
1936
0.0
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
1936
6.0
China Clipper
as Dave Logan
1936
5.6
Public Enemy's Wife
as Lee Laird
1936
5.8
I Married a Doctor
as Dr. William P. Kennicott
1936
4.7
Ceiling Zero
as Jake L. Lee
1936
5.6
A Dream Comes True
as Himself (uncredited)
1935
5.5
Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
1935
5.0
Stars Over Broadway
as Al McGillevray
1935
5.2
Page Miss Glory
as Click Wiley
1935
6.3
The Irish in Us
as Pat O'Hara
1935
7.6
Oil for the Lamps of China
as Stephen Chase
1935
7.3
In Caliente
as Larry MacArthur
1935
6.3
Devil Dogs of the Air
as Lieut. Brannigan
1935
6.4
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
as Himself (uncredited)
1935
5.2
Flirtation Walk
as "Scrapper" Thornhhill
1934
5.6
I Sell Anything
as "Spot Cash" Cutler
1934
4.5
🎬
Studio Highlights
as Self (archive footage)
1934
0.0
Here Comes the Navy
as Biff Martin
1934
5.9
The Personality Kid
as Ritzy
1934
4.2
Twenty Million Sweethearts
as Rush Blake
1934
6.0
Gambling Lady
as Charlie Lang
1934
6.3
I've Got Your Number
as Terry Riley
1934
6.0
Screen Snapshots No. 11
as Himself
1934
0.0
College Coach
as Coach Gore
1933
4.2
Bombshell
as Jim Brogan
1933
6.5
Bureau of Missing Persons
as Detective Butch Saunders
1933
5.8
The World Gone Mad
as Andy Terrell
1933
4.3
Destination Unknown
as Matt Brennan
1933
0.0
Laughter in Hell
as Barney Slaney
1933
1.0
Air Mail
as Duke Talbot
1932
5.5
Virtue
as Jimmy Doyle
1932
6.8
Flaming Gold
as Ben Lear
1932
5.5
American Madness
as Matt Brown
1932
7.0
Hollywood Speaks
as Jimmy Reed
1932
0.0
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
as Frank Deane
1932
6.0
Scandal for Sale
as Waddell
1932
7.0
The Final Edition
as Sam Bradshaw
1932
5.0
Hell's House
as Matt Kelly
1932
5.1
Consolation Marriage
as Steve Porter
1931
6.1
Flying High
as Sport Wardell
1931
4.8
Personal Maid
as Peter Shea
1931
3.0
The Front Page
as Hildy Johnson
1931
6.5
Crimes Square
as Marty
1931
0.0
Honor Among Lovers
as Conroy
1931
5.7
Compliments of the Season
as Police Detective (uncredited)
1930
5.0
🎬
My Mistake
1930
0.0
🎬
The Voice of Hollywood
as Self/Host
1930
0.0