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George O'Brien
(Apr. 19, 1899 - Sept. 04, 1985)
George O'Brien was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the talkie era of the 1930s. In 1924 O'Brien received his first starring role in the drama The Man Who Came Back opposite the English actress Dorothy Mackaill. That same year he was chosen by the famed movie director John Ford to star in The Iron Horse. The film was an immense success at the box-office and O'Brien made nine more films for Ford. In 1927 he starred in Sunrise opposite Janet Gaynor, which won three Academy Awards, was directed by F. W. Murnau, and remains widely considered by critics to be one of the finest and most powerful films ever made. O'Brien would spend the remainder of the 1920s as an extremely popular leading man in films, often starring in action and adventure roles alongside such popular actresses of the era as Alma Rubens, Anita Stewart, Dolores Costello, Madge Bellamy, Olive Borden (with whom he was linked romantically during the 1920s) and Janet Gaynor.
George O'Brien was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the talkie era of the 1930s. In 1924 O'Brien received his first starring role in the drama The Man Who Came Back opposite the English actress Dorothy Mackaill. That same year he was chosen by the famed movie director John Ford to star in The Iron Horse. The film was an immense success at the box-office and O'Brien made nine more films for Ford. In 1927 he starred in Sunrise opposite Janet Gaynor, which won three Academy Awards, was directed by F. W. Murnau, and remains widely considered by critics to be one of the finest and most powerful films ever made. O'Brien would spend the remainder of the 1920s as an extremely popular leading man in films, often starring in action and adventure roles alongside such popular actresses of the era as Alma Rubens, Anita Stewart, Dolores Costello, Madge Bellamy, Olive Borden (with whom he was linked romantically during the 1920s) and Janet Gaynor.
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