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William H. O'Brien

Born: 1891-07-19

From: Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia

About: 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.

Film credits:

The Thin Man

Bartender (uncredited)

He Ran All the Way

Man Entering Apt. Building (uncredited)

Alias the Champ

Audience Spectator (uncredited)

Ball of Fire

Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)

It Started with Eve

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Topaz

Butler (uncredited)

Lady for a Night

King's Club Worker (uncredited)

She-Wolf of London

Constable (uncredited)

The Unsuspected

Servant with Tray (uncredited)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Fight Spectator (uncredited)

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

Waiter at Party (uncredited)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Townsman (uncredited)

Hong Kong

Observer at Scene (uncredited)

The Strange Door

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Executive (uncredited)

Bannerline

Gunpoint

Rio Lobo

Man in Army Post Saloon (uncredited)

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Old Chess Player (uncredited)

Big Time Or Bust

Hammond's Butler (uncredited)

Five and Ten

Duncan (uncredited)

The Unholy Wife

Juror (uncredited)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Servant Peeking in Keyhole (uncredited)

Chicago Confidential

Dixon's Valet (uncredited)

Do You Love Me

Waiter at Mindy's (uncredited)

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Townsman (uncredited)

The Firefly

Waiter (uncredited)

The Mysterious Lady

Cafe Waiter Serving Wine (uncredited)

There's Always Tomorrow

Lady on a Train

Shadow of Doubt

Waiter

Illegal

Butler (uncredited)

Remember?

Waiter (uncredited)

Fort Ti

Bartender

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

Waiter (uncredited)

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

Who Was That Lady?

Passenger Exiting Elevator (uncredited)

Let's Dance

Waiter (uncredited)

The Tattered Dress

Juror (uncredited)

Topper Returns

Second Butler (uncredited)

Reaching for the Moon

Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)

The Half-Naked Truth

Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

Cry Tough

Ladies' Man

Elevator starter

Murder by Contract

Hotel Take-Out Delivery Man (uncredited)

Frenchie

Townsman (uncredited)

New Moon

Waiter at Ball

Long Lost Father

Waiter Getting Carl to Telephone

The Gay Deception

Waiter (uncredited)

Ivy

Barrister (uncredited)

The Graduate

Hotel Guest (uncredited)

Strictly Unconventional

Footman

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Ship Passenger (uncredited)

The Wheeler Dealers

Waiter (uncredited)

Hollywood Mystery

Tony's Butler

Ocean's Eleven

Waiter at Burlesque Club (uncredited)

The Bad and the Beautiful

Waiter at Party (uncredited)

Money, Women and Guns

Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Louisa

Waiter (uncredited)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Portobello Road Passerby (uncredited)

The Story on Page One

Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)

The Blot

College Student (uncredited)

Sweet Smell of Success

Waiter at 21 (uncredited)

The Misses Stooge

The Butler (uncredited)

Special Investigator

Nightclub Waiter

Wells Fargo

Headwaiter

While the City Sleeps

Apartment Tenant

The Singing Fool

Waiter at Blackie Joe's (uncredited)

To Beat the Band

Waiter

His Family Tree

Man at Mayoral Debate

Stronger Than Desire

Waiter (uncredited)

The Blonde from Singapore

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Movie Patron (uncredited)

Carrie

Waiter (uncredited)

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

Rooming House Boarder (uncredited)

Champagne Charlie

Extra as Ship Waiter

Zorro's Fighting Legion

Legionnaire

Shakedown

Waiter (uncredited)

Playboy of Paris

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

A Star Is Born

Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)

All About Eve

Waiter at Margo's Party (uncredited)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Room Service Waiter (uncredited)

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

Nightclub Waiter

Girl from Rio

Condor Club Headwaiter

Gypsy

Audience Member (uncredited)

That's Right – You're Wrong

Lawn Party Waiter (Uncredited)

Honeymoon in Bali

Doorman (uncredited)

Eternally Yours

Nightclub Waiter

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

Waiter (uncredited)

Valley of the Dolls

Bartender (uncredited)

The Far Country

Townsman (uncredited)

Men Call It Love

Brooks' Butler (uncredited)

The Country Doctor

Waiter in Restaurant (uncredited)

The Last Hurrah

Man (uncredited)

Race Street

Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

Witness for the Prosecution

Barrister (uncredited)

Judgment at Nuremberg

German Prisoner in Cafeteria (uncredited)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Daybreak

Bartender

Zero Hour!

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Emma

Man (uncredited)

The Joker is Wild

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Niagara Falls

Waiter (uncredited)

Street of Chance

Waiter (uncredited)

Forgotten Women

Sleek's Butler

Rebecca

Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

Woman in Hiding

Conventioneer (uncredited)

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

Waiter at Officer's Ball (uncredited)

The Earl of Chicago

Turnkey (uncredited)

North of the Rio Grande

Bald Saloon Waiter

Edison, the Man

Waiter

High Noon

Church Member (uncredited)

On the Riviera

Waiter at Party (uncredited)

The Showdown

Bald Bartender

Buck Benny Rides Again

Waiter

The Patsy

Waiter (uncredited)

Battle Cry

Bartender (uncredited)

Special Agent

Barber's Customer (uncredited)

Jungle Goddess

Bartender (uncredited)

Ace in the Hole

Customer at Minosa's (uncredited)

Fallen Angel

Bus Passenger (uncredited)

The Square Jungle

Government Girl

Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

The Hoodlum Saint

Waiter at Wedding Brunch (uncredited)

Red-Headed Woman

Waiter at Gaerste Party (uncredited)

The Arizonian

Waiter in Opera House

City for Conquest

Waiter (uncredited)

No Time for Comedy

Waiter in Bar (uncredited)

Hired Wife

Waiter

A Chump at Oxford

Man in Unemployment Office (uncredited)

One Night in the Tropics

Joe, Club Roscoe Waiter (uncredited)

Turnabout

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Captain Caution

English Sailor Who Pleads for Water

Love Thy Neighbor

Nightclub Waiter

City of Chance

Waiter

Captain Swagger

Waiter

Anybody's Woman

Butler

Dance Charlie Dance

Bored Spectator (uncredited)

Sing, Baby, Sing

Nightclub Waiter

No Time for Love

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

The Damned Don't Cry

Waiter at Party (uncredited)

Around the World in Eighty Days

Extra (uncredited)

The Tiger Woman

Waiter (uncredited)

Citizen Kane

Secretary (uncredited)

Diamond Jim

Waiter

Sinner Take All

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Trouble Along the Way

Bartender Joe

Once More, My Darling

Waiter

The Road to Reno

Waiter

Curtain Call

Waiter Bringing Caviar

Forty Little Mothers

Waiter

The Trespasser

Butler (uncredited)

The Woman in Green

Pembrook House Waiter (uncredited)

The Feminine Touch

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Elmer Gantry

Train Conductor

Children of Pleasure

Party Butler #2 (uncredited)

Mexican Spitfire Out West

Waiter

The Star

Waiter at Party (uncredited)

Bombers B-52

Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)

Brooklyn Orchid

Waiter at Party

The Phantom of Paris

Chéri-Bibi's Valet (uncredited)

San Francisco

Waiter at Chicken's Ball (uncredited)

Hollywood Scout

Man with Chimpanzee (uncredited)

The Best Years of Our Lives

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Woman's World

Servant

A Place in the Sun

Servant at Eastman's Party (uncredited)

The Walking Dead

Juror (uncredited)

Daisy Kenyon

Bartender at Stork Club (uncredited)

Airport

Waiter at Men's Club

Let Us Be Gay

Struthers - 2nd Butler (as William O'Brien)

The Seven Year Itch

Man at Train Station (uncredited)

The Harder They Fall

Ringsider (uncredited)

The Trouble with Girls

Hotel Lobby Extra (uncredited)

Scarface

Waiter (uncredited)

Action in the North Atlantic

Lieutenant-Commander at Meeting (uncredited)

Pack Up Your Troubles

Butler (uncredited)

A Woman of Affairs

Man Peering Into Room (uncredited)

Margin for Error

Waiter

So Proudly We Hail

Troop Ship Survivor (Uncredited)

The Spider Woman

Doorman (uncredited)

Undercurrent

Waiter (uncredited)

Faithless

Croupier

The Rage of Paris

Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)

The Man in the Iron Mask

Servant

Pillow Talk

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Footman (uncredited)

Only Yesterday

Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)

Johnny Allegro

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein

Waiter (uncredited)

A Streetcar Named Desire

Waiter (uncredited)

Angel on My Shoulder

Court Spectator (uncredited)

Anna Christie

Waiter at Coney Island (uncredited)

Ex-Lady

Butler (uncredited)

The Big Sleep

Waiter (uncredited)

Hollywood Story

Café Waiter (uncredited)

Father of the Bride

Waiter (uncredited)

Bachelor Bait

Waiter #2 (uncredited)

Body and Soul

Bartender (uncredited)

Tomorrow We Live

Keep 'Em Flying

Waiter at Manila Club (uncredited)

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

Banquet Servant

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

Card Dealer (uncredited)

In Society

Party Waiter (uncredited)

The Naughty Nineties

Troupe Member (uncredited)

The Time of Their Lives

Danbury Servant (uncredited)

Some Like It Hot

Hotel Guest (uncredited)

The Wet Parade

Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

A Song to Remember

Guest at Salon Concert (uncredited)

The Racket

Detective Frisking Nick

Road to Rio

Ship's Waiter

I Walk Alone

Waiter (uncredited)

Take a Letter, Darling

Waiter (uncredited)

Dressed to Kill

Detective at Murder Scene

The Children's Hour

Funeral Assistant (uncredited)

In Old Chicago

Senate Waiter (uncredited)

Dial M for Murder

Waiter at Stag Dinner (uncredited)

Sabrina

Bartender (uncredited)

Nobody Lives Forever

Waiter (uncredited)

Smart Money

Nick's Chauffeur Bill (uncredited)

Pot o' Gold

Country Club Waiter (uncredited)

Home Before Dark

Waiter at Christmas Party

Two Sisters from Boston

Recording Lab Assistant (uncredited)

You Gotta Stay Happy

Waiter (Uncredited)

Something to Live For

Waiter (uncredited)

Sorry, Wrong Number

Waiter at Wedding Reception (uncredited)

Designing Woman

Party Guest (uncredited)

Pressure Point

Bund Meeting Spectator

Go Into Your Dance

Casino de Paree Waiter

It's Always Fair Weather

Waiter (uncredited)

Superman and the Mole Men

Townsman (uncredited)

The Old Homestead

Waiter (uncredited)

Carnival Rock

Onlooker at Fire (uncredited)

Monkey Business

Waiter

Gold Is Where You Find It

Butler at Party (uncredited)

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

Circus Spectator

A Night at the Opera

Stagehand (uncredited)

Anything Goes

Waiter

Kitty

Coach Footman (uncredited)

Daddy Long Legs

Hotel Waiter

The Falcon Takes Over

Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)

Movie Crazy

Waiter (Uncredited)

The Climax

Audience Member (Uncredited)

Merrily We Go to Hell

Waiter (uncredited)

Hit Parade of 1941

Waiter

The Guilty Generation

Victor - Mike's Butler

Swing Shift Maisie

Courtroom Spectator (Uncredited)

Maisie Gets Her Man

Detective Taking in Hixby (Uncredited)

Flamingo Road

Undercover Maisie

Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)

The High and the Mighty

Restaurant Cook

New York Confidential

The Men

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Test Pilot

Waiter (uncredited)

The Big Broadcast of 1938

Reporter (uncredited)

Munster, Go Home!

Man at Customs (uncredited)

It's a Great Feeling

Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

Horizons West

Barfly (uncredited)

The Doolins of Oklahoma

Bartender (uncredited)

Canyon Passage

Miner (uncredited)

Sin Takes a Holiday

Waiter at Royal Club (uncredited)

Vagabond Lady

Waiter (uncredited)

Midnight Mary

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

The Mad Whirl

The Todd Killings

Mr. Miller (uncredited)

The Leopard Man

Bartender (uncredited)

The Delicious Little Devil

Waiter (uncredited)

The Comic

Funeral Guest (uncredited)

West of Broadway

Waiter (uncredited)

Larceny on the Air

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

The Thin Man Goes Home

Train Passenger (uncredited)

Désirée

Servant (uncredited)

Julius Caesar

Senator (uncredited)

The Bounty Hunter

Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

Critic's Choice

Audience Member (uncredited)

Dirigible

Sailor (uncredited)

The Helen Morgan Story

Surprise Party Guest (uncredited)

One of Our Spies Is Missing

The Butler (archive footage) (uncredited)