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William H. O'Brien was born on 19 July 1891 in Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for I've Been Around (1935), Once a Gentleman (1930) and The Sky Raiders (1931). He died on 18 April 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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William H. O'Brien (19 July 1891 – 18 April 1981; age 89) was an actor who appeared as a Columbia survivor in the first pilot for Star Trek: The Original Series, "The Cage", and subsequently in archive footage that appeared in "The Menagerie, Part I".
Born to Irish parents in Peak Hill, New South Wales, O'Brien, along with his wife and young daughter, immigrated to the United States from Australia in late 1919; they had a second daughter a year later. Within two weeks of arriving in the US, he began working in the motion picture industry as a "film exchanger". (Sources: California Arriving Passenger and Crew List (1882-1959); 1920 US Federal Census)
O'Brien's oldest daughter, Joan, was, from 1944 to 1968, a casting agent and worked in talent development with Paramount, Janus, and Warner Brothers, who "discovered" such talents as Rock Hudson and James Dean. In 1968, she married her second husband, director George Stevens. Stevens directed Shane, clips and homages of which have appeared several times on Star Trek. O'Brien's youngest daughter, Betty, appeared in at least one film as a child actress.
Represented by Central Casting, O'Brien amassed nearly 650 film and, much later, television appearances – often as a butler or waiter – in his fifty year career. His earliest known television appearance was in I Love Lucy (1952; directed by Marc Daniels, and with Lucille Ball). During the late 1950s and early 1960s he mostly appeared in Westerns, and during the 1960s appeared in the background of several "classic" television shows of the decade, including The Twilight Zone (1963; with Sam Bagley and Joe Evans), and Mission: Impossible. His final known acting role was an uncredited appearance in the film The Todd Killings (1971; with Meg Foster, William Lucking, George Murdock, and Jason Wingreen).
•William H. O'Brien at the Internet Movie Database
William H. O'Brien was born on July 19, 1891 in Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for I've Been Around (1935), One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966) and Once a Gentleman (1930). He died on April 18, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- July 19, 1891
- April 18, 1981
Australian born William H. O'Brien began his screen acting career in Australia in 1918, then resumed in Hollywood in 1921. He continued acting in films and television series to 1971. Known For. Dial M for Murder. The Graduate. Rebecca. A Streetcar Named Desire. Some Like It Hot. To Kill a Mockingbird. High Noon. The Seven Year Itch. Acting. All.
Willis Harold O'Brien (March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962), known as Obie O'Brien, was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood "was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World (1925), King ...
Sep 22, 2020 · In the case of the pioneer of stop motion, Willis H. O’Brien, the world was between the two most devastating conflicts in human history — the world wars — but there was a great deal of ...
2007. Cardiovascular recovery from stress and hypertension risk factors: A meta‐analytic review. JL Hocking Schuler, WH O'BRIEN. Psychophysiology 34 (6), 649-659. , 1997. 259. 1997. Age differences in stress and coping: Problem-focused strategies mediate the relationship between age and positive affect. Y Chen, Y Peng, H Xu, WH O’Brien.
