Tom O'Brien
Also Known As: Thomas Everett O'Brien, Thomas E. O'Brien, Thomas O'Brien, Tommy O'Brien
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Diego, California, USA
Birthday: July 23, 1890
Deathday: June 08, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Big Parade
Overview: The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-05
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Fools Highway
Overview: Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Up and Going
Overview: In Up and Going, based on Mix's own story, Arctic Trails, the star played a titled, polo playing Northwest Mounted Police officer. From an elderly woman, Tom learns that childhood girlfriend Jackie McNabb is being kept prisoner by evil Basil Du Bois.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-22
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Call of the West
Overview: Nightclub entertainer Violet La Tour collapses during a performance in Sagebrush, Texas, and is taken to the ranch of Lon Dixon. They fall in love and are married. Feeling deserted when Lon joins a posse in search of rustlers, she returns to New York. There, she is wooed by her agent, Maurice Kane, but confirms her love for Lon when he comes to claim her.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-10
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The Sagebrusher
Overview: A friend of a Montana sagebrusher advertises for a potential wife for him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Square Deal Sanderson
Overview: Square Deal Sanderson is in pursuit of a horse thief, but someone else shoots the varmint before Sanderson can offer him a "square deal."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
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The Last Warning
Overview: A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-25
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White Fang
Overview: Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-24
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Winner Take All
Overview: Perry Blair starts off as a sparring partner for a fighter, but when he knocks the guy down, manager Charles Dunham immediately sees his potential. He takes Blair to New York, where he meets pretty Cecil Manners. Blair finds out that his next fight is fixed and he pulls out. When Dunham spreads a rumor that he is yellow, Blair decides to return west.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-12
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The Gentleman from America
Overview: Two Army buddies, Dennis O'Shane and Johnny Day, decide to take their furlough in Paris but instead end up in Spain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-19
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It's a Cinch
Overview: When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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The Fire Brigade
Overview: Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-12-20
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Broadway Scandals
Overview: Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-10
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The Woman Condemned
Overview: When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman discovered with her is the culprit — everyone, that is, but newspaper reporter Jerry Beall, who sets out to prove her innocence.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-03
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The Flying Fool
Overview: A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him. Unfortunately, he winds up falling in love with her himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-10
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The Chorus Kid
Overview: Having been in show biz since infancy, Broadway chorus girl Beatrice regrets her lack of formal education, so when she unexpectedly falls heir to a huge sum of money, Beatrice decides to make up for lost time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-09
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Take It from Me
Overview: Tom Eggett, with the help of his pals, Dick and Van, loses the last cent of his inheritance, is evicted from his apartment, and is rejected by Gwen, his fiancée. A codicil to his uncle's will, however, stipulates that he shall inherit the Eggett department store provided that he operate it for 3 months at a profit. Cyrus Crabb, manager of the store, is determined to gain possession of the business and arranges for the company's credit to be canceled during Tom's management, though Grace Gordon, a stenographer, has evidence of his perfidy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-10
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Dance Hall
Overview: A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-13
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The Private Life of Helen of Troy
Overview: Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly refuses to take any of The Private Life of Helen of Troy seriously. Maria Corda, wife of the director, plays the title character as a fetchingly underdressed coquette, oblivious to all the political turmoil she's causing when she allows the handsome Paris (Ricardo Cortez) to kidnap her. Meanwhile, poor King Menelaus (Lewis Stone), Helen's husband, stands by in stoic silence, just as he's done on previous occasions when his wife succumbed to the charms of various sexy suitors (one of whom is played by future cowboy star "Wild Bill" Elliot). Finally galvanized into action, Menelaus reclaims his bride, who seems none the worse for wear for her experiences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-09
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The Murder in the Museum
Overview: When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a somewhat disreputable sideshow, the daughter of the chief suspect teams up with a newspaper reporter to find the real killer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-26
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Hurricane
Overview: Captain Black and his motley crew of pirates are shipwrecked on a South Sea island, where they hold several shanghaied sailors captive. Black observes the ship commanded by Hurricane Martin approaching and conspires to get his men aboard the vessel and seize the cargo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-30
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The Last Edition
Overview: A twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a promotion at the same time his son is accused of graft and involved in scandal. The historical landmarks of old San Francisco are present: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, City Hall and the Pickwick Hotel-- but they don't distract from the dramatic and emotional perforamces at the film's center.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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The Talk of Hollywood
Overview: Schlock-movie producer J. Pierpont Ginsburg, after declaring, in a Yiddish accent, that "talking pictures are in their infantry," decides to put all of his savings into a big-budgeted musical, starring the sensation of Paris (with a bad French accent), Adore Renee, and a swishy leading man, Reginald Whitlock. Meanwhile, his daughter, Judy Ginsburg, gets involved in a romance with Ginsburg's Gentile lawyer, John Applegate. His efforts aren't helped any by the projectionist who mixes up the sound-disc reels, with the images not matching the dialogue and sound effects, during a showing for prospective film buyers and exhibitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-10
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Untamed
Overview: In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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Granny
Overview: A country boarding house story
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-25
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The Unexpected Father
Overview: A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-03
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San Francisco Nights
Overview: Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-01
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The Devil Within
Overview: Director Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-20
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Plumb Crazy
Overview: Bobby Vernon comedy produced by Al Christie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-02
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Phantom of Santa Fe
Overview: A band of renegades attacks and loots a mission, stealing some priceless treasures. Local citizens blame an outlaw known as "The Hawk," who is also called "The Phantom of Santa Fe."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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Trapped
Overview: A police captain investigating a ring of bank robbers falls in love with a nightclub entertainer suspected of being involved with the gang.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-13
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Winners Of The Wilderness
Overview: During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
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Twelve Miles Out
Overview: Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry seizes Jane's seaside home. When she tries to turn him in, he kidnaps her and her fiance John. Jane, now in love with Jerry, must watch as Jerry and Red shoot it out on board Jerry's boat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-08
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Moby Dick
Overview: Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-20
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That's My Daddy
Overview: A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they accompany him whereupon a little girl attaches herself to him, with hilarious results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-19
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The Frontiersman
Overview: John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the treacherous White Snake in particular.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-11
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His Lucky Day
Overview: When a young man acts foolish, he's either insane, in debt or in love, and there's not much difference! Real estate agent Charles Blaydon is in love and in order to get the father of his sweetheart Kay Weaver to purchase a nearby property he is must fill the vacant house next door. So he does something foolish when he offers a few months rent free to the first group of prospective buyer he finds. However in his eagerness he doesn't suspect that this peculiar group isn't a family looking for a home but actually a gang of robbers on the lam!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-02
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The Bugle Call
Overview: Tale of a young bugler whose stepmother attempts to supplant the mother who only lives in his memory.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-06
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The Phantom
Overview: An eclectic group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Crack O' Dawn
Overview: The Thompson-Thorpe automobile was once a great car but dissension between the owners led to the break-up of the company, and Thompson and Thorpe have each started their own car-manufacturing company. Not knowing his true identity, Earle Thorpe Jr. has been hired by Henry Thompson to drive his new car in an upcoming race. Unknown to Thompson has two crooked mechanic/engineers on his payroll who plan to make their own car, using Thompson's plans, and win the big race themselves. Etta, Thompson’s daughter, and Earle team up to re-unite Thompson and Thorpe Sr. by taking the best features of both cars and combine them into one super car.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-16
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The Flaming Forest
Overview: North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict to trial and woos the lovely Jeanne-Marie.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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The Peacock Fan
Overview: A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a wealth home is replaced by a sneering second investigator of mixed racial ancestry in this mystery involving an ancient Asian fan.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-01
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Poker Faces
Overview: In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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The Runaway Express
Overview: Joe Foley, charged to deliver a trainload of cattle to his employer, is forced to commandeer the engine when his engineer refuses to continue until he has observed union rest rules.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-10
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So This Is Marriage?
Overview: The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-26
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On With the Show!
Overview: With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-13
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The Midnight Special
Overview: A thrilling drama of young love and the great sacrifice made by railroad workers that we may travel in safety. (Print ad- Evening News, Tonawanda, N.Y. 4 February 1931)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-07
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Smiling Irish Eyes
Overview: A 1929 film directed by William A. Seiter.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-22
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