George O'Brien (April 19, 1899 – September 4, 1985) was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the talkie era of the 1930s, best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. He also starred in East Side, West Side (1927), The Johnstown Floor (1926), and John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924). The day before his seventh birthday the Great Earthquake of 1906 hit San Francisco. He and his family nearly died and were homeless for months. He served in World War I and World War II.

Filmography

• Hollywood — Self (archive footage, uncredited)
• 1976Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch — (archive footage)
• 1964Cheyenne Autumn — Major Braden
• 1961The 10 from Texas — (archive footage)
• 1959Korea — Narrator
• Studio 57
• 1951Gold Raiders — George O'Brien
• 1949She Wore a Yellow Ribbon — Maj. Mac Allshard
• 1948Fort Apache — Capt. Sam Collingwood
• 1947My Wild Irish Rose — 'Duke' Muldoon
• 1943December 7th — Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
• 1940Bullet Code — Steve Holden
• 1940Legion of the Lawless — Jeff Toland
• 1940Prairie Law — Brill Austin
• 1940Stage to Chino — Dan Clark
• 1940Triple Justice — Brad Henderson
• 1939Arizona Legion — Boone Yeager
• 1939Racketeers of the Range — Barney O'Dell
• 1939The Fighting Gringo — Wade Barton
• 1939The Marshal Of Mesa City — Cliff Mason
• 1939Timber Stampede — Scott Baylor
• 1939Trouble in Sundown — Clint Bradford
• 1938Border G-Man — Jim Galloway
• 1938Gun Law — Tom O'Malley
• 1938Lawless Valley — Larry Rhodes
• 1938Painted Desert — Bob McVey
• 1938The Renegade Ranger — Captain Jack Steele
• 1937Hollywood Cowboy — Jeffery Carson
• 1937Park Avenue Logger — Grant Curran
• 1937Windjammer — Bruce Lane
• 1936Daniel Boone — Daniel Boone
• 1936O'Malley of the Mounted — Constable O'Malley aka Duke Kinnard
• 1936The Border Patrolman — Bob Wallace
• 1935Hard Rock Harrigan — Tim 'Hard Rock' Harrigan
• 1935The Cowboy Millionaire — Bob Walker
• 1935Thunder Mountain — Kal Emerson
• 1935When a Man's a Man — Larry Knight
• 1935Whispering Smith Speaks — Gordon Harrington, Jr. aka John 'Whispering' Smith
• 1934Ever Since Eve — Neil Rogers
• 1934Frontier Marshal — Michael Wyatt
• 1934The Dude Ranger — Ernest 'Dude' Selby
• 1933Life in the Raw — Jim Barry
• 1933Smoke Lightning — Smoke Mason
• 1933The Last Trail — Tom Daley
• 1932Mystery Ranch — Bob Sanborn
• 1932Robbers' Roost — Jim Wall
• 1932The Gay Caballero — Ted Radcliffe
• 1932The Golden West — David Lynch / Motano
• 1932The Rainbow Trail — John Shefford
• 1931A Holy Terror — Tony Bard aka Woodbury
• 1931Fair Warning — Whistlin' Dan Barry
• 1931Riders of the Purple Sage — Jim Lassiter
• 1931Seas Beneath — Cmdr. Robert 'Bob' Kingsley
• 1930Hollywood Studios
• 1930Rough Romance — Billy West
• 1930The Last of the Duanes — Buck Duane
• 1930The Lone Star Ranger — Buck Duane
• 1929Masked Emotions — Bramdlet Dickery
• 1929Salute — Cadet John Randall
• 1929True Heaven — Lieutenant Philip Gresson
• 1928Blindfold — Robert Kelly
• 1928Honor Bound — John Oglegree
• 1928Noah's Ark — Travis / Japheth
• 1928Sharp Shooters — George
• 1927East Side, West Side — John Breen
• 1927Is Zat So? — Ed 'Chick' Cowan
• 1927Paid to Love — Crown Prince Michae
• 1927Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans — The Man (Anses)
• 19263 Bad Men — Dan O'Malley
• 1926Fig Leaves — Adam Smith
• 1926Rustlin' for Cupid — Bradley Blatchford
• 1926The Blue Eagle — George Darcy
• 1926The Johnstown Flood — Tom O'Day
• 1926The Silver Treasure — Nostromo
• 1925Havoc — Dick Chappel
• 1925Thank You — Kenneth Jamieson
• 1925The Dancers — Tony
• 1925The Fighting Heart — Denny Bolton
• 1925The Iron Horse — Davy Brandon
• 1924Shadows of Paris — Louis
• 1924The Man Who Came Back — Henry Potter
• 1924The Painted Lady — Luther Smith
• 1924The Roughneck — Jerry Delaney
• 1924The Sea Hawk — Galley Slave (uncredited)
• 1923The Ne'er-Do-Well — Clifford
• 1923Woman-Proof — Bill Burleigh
• 1922Ebb Tide — Islander (uncredited)
• 1922Moran of the Lady Letty — Deck Hand
• 1922The Ghost Breaker — One of the Ghosts (uncredited)
• 1922White Hands — Sailor

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2023The Only Girl in the Orchestra — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• This Is Your Life — Self