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Edmond O'Brien
Acting · follow into films and chains
Biography
Edmond O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D.O.A. (1950). His many memorable films included The Killers, White Heat, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Wild Bunch. He also co-starred with Richard Rust in the NBC legal drama Sam Benedict, which aired during the 1962-1963 television season.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
The Wild Bunch
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Hitch-Hiker
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
As Dutton Peabody
Fantastic Voyage
As General Carter
White Heat
As Vic Pardo
The Other Side of the Wind
As Pat Mullins
Under Capricorn
As Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Bigamist
As Harry Graham / Harrison Graham
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Open Road Reclaimed - Women Who Drive Away
From the dust of the American West to the neon of Tokyo, these eight films trace a lineage of women who take to the road not to flee, but to find themselves.
5 films
Criminal Alliances
A chain tracing the anti-hero ensemble film from its war-movie origins through heist, western, and genre mutations to the modern comic-book iteration, examining...
8 films
The Long Goodbye: Twilight of Heroes and Outlaws
There is a moment in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian (1976) that cuts deeper than any broadsword. Sean Connery, sporting grey in his beard and exhaustion in h...
8 films
Related people
Collaborators & neighbours
Acted
The Other Side of the Wind
2018 · Pat Mullins
The Wild Bunch
1969 · Freddie Sykes
Fantastic Voyage
1966 · General Carter
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Dutton Peabody
The Bigamist
1953 · Harry Graham / Harrison Graham
The Hitch-Hiker
1953 · Roy Collins
The Redhead and the Cowboy
1951 · Maj. Dunn Jeffers (Union intelligence officer)
D.O.A.
1949 · Frank Bigelow
Under Capricorn
1949 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
White Heat
1949 · Vic Pardo