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Arthur O'Connell

Acting

Born March 29, 1908 · New York City, New York, USA

Died May 18, 1981

Biography

Arthur Joseph O'Connell was an American stage, film and television actor, who achieved prominence in character roles in the 1950s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for both Picnic (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959).

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Awards & recognition

  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actor · 1960 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actor · 1956 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Citizen Kane

1941as Reporter (uncredited)

Emergency!

1972

Night Gallery

1969

Anatomy of a Murder

1959as Parnell Emmett "Parn" McCarthy

The Wild Wild West

1965

Bonanza

1959as Dr. Samuel Hubert

The Fugitive

1963as Dr. Josephus Harrison Adams

Pocketful of Miracles

1961as Count Alfonso Romero

McCloud

1970

Operation Petticoat

1959as Chief Motor Machinist's Mate Sam Tostin

The Naked City

1948as Sgt. Shaeffer (uncredited)

The Poseidon Adventure

1972as John, the Chaplain

The Great Race

1965as Henry Goodbody

7 Faces of Dr. Lao

1964as Clint Stark

Homecoming

1948as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)

The Hiding Place

1975as Casper ten Boom, 'Papa'

Ironside

1967

The Great Impostor

1960as Warden J.B. Chandler

There Was a Crooked Man...

1970as Mr. Lomax

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

1940as Intern (uncredited)

Fantastic Voyage

1966as Col. Donald Reid

Route 66

1960

Operation Mad Ball

1957as Col. Rousch

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

1956as Gordon Walker

State of the Union

1948as First Reporter

One Touch of Venus

1948as Reporter

My Three Sons

1960

Man of the West

1958as Sam Beasley

Wagon Train

1957

Force of Evil

1948as Link Hall (uncredited)

Your Cheatin' Heart

1964as Fred Rose

The Proud Ones

1956as Jim Dexter

Hullabaloo

1940as Fourth Page

Picnic

1955as Howard Bevans

The Power

1968as Prof. Henry Hallson

The Big Valley

1965as Jubal

The Solid Gold Cadillac

1956as Mark Jenkins

Follow That Dream

1962as Pop Kwimper

Cimarron

1960as Tom Wyatt

Bus Stop

1956as Virgil Blessing

Huckleberry Finn

1974as Col. Grangerford

Ben

1972as Bill Hatfield

The Reluctant Astronaut

1967as Arbuckle "Buck" Fleming

Ride Beyond Vengeance

1966as The Narrator

The Silencers

1966as Joe Wigman

Misty

1961as Grandpa Clarence Beebe

Gidget

1959as Russell Lawrence

The Monkey's Uncle

1965as Darius Green III

Petticoat Junction

1963as William Lawrence

The Golden Fleecing

1940as Cameraman (uncredited)