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Post by cynthiagreen on Sept 10, 2019 21:18:19 GMT
Yes - an essential classic star
Keeper SEVEN DAYS IN MAY
also catch him in any of the following, which I'd recommend
THE KILLERS A DOUBLE LIFE WHITE HEAT JULIUS CAESAR THE BIGAMIST THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE THE LONGEST DAY SYLVIA FANTASTIC VOYAGE THE WILD BUNCH THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS
in terms of A pictures - which most of the above were - O'Brien was a top featured player - in only one of the above does he have the lead - and I'm pretty sure he is third billed in that! He was not "a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firmament" to use a phrase of Lina Lamont's . I've read he was quite happy with his co-star status... and he's been proven right = to get into a dozen movies as good as the above, albeit third or fourth billed, puts him in very good company indeed.
Never got the love for DOA - sorry.
He gave great sweaty and dishevelled.... but scrubbed up well when he had to
  
Trivia note - unless I'm wrong he was one of a very select group of actors to have starred alongside Ava Gardner three times (although they share no scenes in SEVEN DAYS)- Peck, Lancaster and Mason also managed this enviable feat!
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Sept 10, 2019 21:39:07 GMT
A truly underrated actor.
He also starred in the western "Warpath"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 11, 2019 0:21:48 GMT
O'Brien also had one of the leads (he was not the original -- was the second to take on the role) in the radio series in the early 1950s: YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR -- an Insurance Investigator like in THE KILLERS. 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 11, 2019 0:28:39 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 11, 2019 0:38:47 GMT
In a favorite western, "Rio Conchos" (1964) with Richard Boone.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 11, 2019 1:04:33 GMT
A Girl, A Guy and a Gob (1941)  with Lucille Ball and George Murphy  |
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Post by marianne48 on Sept 11, 2019 1:47:32 GMT
Hammy but fun as the newspaper editor in LIBERTY VALANCE.    Edmond O'Brien doing his Thomas Mitchell impression. |
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Post by OldAussie on Sept 11, 2019 1:58:41 GMT
Among all his great movies, I think this is my favourite individual scene - wish I could have found a video of it....  |
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Post by london777 on Sept 11, 2019 14:12:30 GMT
In A Double Life (1947) dir: George Cukor he plays a younger man of whom the protagonist, Ronald Colman, is insanely jealous. No fault of O'Brien's, but I find his participation disruptive. He is the new school of actor (Mitchum, Bogart, Widmark, etc) who are at ease before the camera, and his scenes make Colman and the rest look like Edwardian waxworks. Maybe this was intentional but it did not work for me. I do not like this movie, but it did introduce me to Signe Hasso and, having since seen her in other films, I regret that she wasted her talents on TV from 1950 onwards.  |
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 11, 2019 15:19:47 GMT
it did introduce me to Signe Hasso and, having since seen her in other films, I regret that she wasted her talents on TV from 1950 onwards.
London -- Signe made a great villainess as the Nazi chiefton spy in pre-war New York (dressing up as the elusive "Mr. Christopher") in THE HOUSE ON 92nd STREET.
Here is her surprising disguise and her dramatic demise:
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbdbrd1ngwc
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Sept 11, 2019 16:58:40 GMT
Yep, I'm familiar with some of this work. I remember him in White Heat and he was great as the grizzled old timer in The Wild Bunch.
It's been said that he was originally cast as Lieutenant Fuller in Black Christmas (1974). But sadly he was in his first stage of Alzheimer's, and had to be replaced by John Saxon.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 11, 2019 18:42:14 GMT
One of those leading men that successfully transformed into character actors. Anyway, always a joy to see him in the cast, and watch too.  39 episodes 1960  Sam Benedict 1962 - 1963 in 28 episodes.  Two 3-parters 1965 Disney TV series, The Adventures of Gallegher and The Further Adventures of Gallegher.  Early TV-Movie as The Man (with glasses) in The Doomsday Flight 1966, by Rod Serling. |
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Post by london777 on Sept 11, 2019 22:03:04 GMT
I remember seeing the The Bigamist (1951) dir: Ida Lupino when I was 13 and being shocked that one of his women visited his bedroom when he had 'flu and kissed him. I found this disturbingly unhygienic. However I am now beginning to think that might have been a "false memory". Can anyone confirm that such a scene existed? Looking for a pic to liven up my post I found this. Perhaps I have got things the wrong way round?  |
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