Biography
William Joseph Patrick O'Brien was an American film actor with more than 100 screen credits. Of Irish descent, he often played Irish and Irish-American characters and was referred to as "Hollywood's Irishman in Residence" in the press. One of the best-known screen actors of the 1930s and 1940s, he played priests, cops, military figures, pilots, and reporters. He is especially well-remembered for his roles in Knute Rockne, All American (1940), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and Some Like It Hot (1959). He was frequently paired onscreen with Hollywood star and close friend James Cagney. O'Brien also appeared on stage and television.
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Awards & recognition
- Daytime Emmy Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography42 titles
I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Some Like It Hot
WKRP in Cincinnati
Happy Days
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
McCloud
The Last Hurrah
Ragtime
What's My Line?
Castle on the Hudson
Torrid Zone
The Great O'Malley
The Colgate Comedy Hour
American Madness
The Ed Sullivan Show
Marine Raiders
Lux Video Theatre
San Quentin
Billy Jack Goes to Washington
The Virginian
Telephone Time
Bombshell
The Front Page
'Til We Meet Again
The Boy with Green Hair
Riff-Raff
Knute Rockne All American
Here Comes the Navy
China Clipper
The Over the Hill Gang
Ring of Fear
The Fighting 69th
The People Against O'Hara
Bombardier
The End
Okinawa
Hell's House
Johnny One-Eye
Slightly Honorable
The World Gone Mad
The Phynx