John B. O'Brien
notum enim: Directing
dies natalis: 1884-12-13
Locus Natus: Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Et ut: J.B. O'Brien, Jack G. O'Brien, Jack O'Brien, John D. O'Brien, John O'Brien, Ryan Sherwood
Alkali Ike's Auto
Alkali Ike and Mustang Pete are both wooing the same woman. Ike hopes to take her for a horseback ride, but she chooses instead to go with Pete, who...
release : 1911.05.19popularis : 2.438
Pals of the Range
The scene opens in the bunk house of the Lazy K Ranch, where we see Jack Hartley and his pal Jack Smythe. Hartley has just received a letter from the...
release : 1910.10.22popularis : 0.938
The Masquerade Cop
The Masquerade Cop is a silent Comedy
release : 1910.11.08popularis : 1.622
The Silent Message
Jeff Bandera, outlaw, has been capture by the sheriff, who is taking him by rail to the nearest lockup. Jeff is desperate and when the train slows...
release : 1910.10.29popularis : 1.403
Hank and Lank: As Sandwich Men
Hank and Lank have inside information that it's meal time, but it looks as if they would have to skip a meal or two until Hank's fertile brain maps...
release : 1910.11.22popularis : 1.529
A Cowboy's Vindication
A shot during a struggle, and Frank Morrison is branded with the mark of Cain, but by his own efforts the real murderer is discovered.
release : 1910.12.10popularis : 1.985
Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present
Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present is a silent Western
release : 1910.12.03popularis : 1.805
The Count and the Cowboys
The scene is laid in the West and presents a French count, in immaculate attire, suddenly dropped among the cowboys. Following an altercation he...
release : 1911.01.07popularis : 1.03
The Mexican's Faith
Tony Perez, a Mexican cowpuncher, is driven from the ranch where he is employed for some misdemeanor or other, and after vainly endeavoring to find...
release : 1910.02.26popularis : 1.55
The Best Man Wins
Charles Shea, the handsome young foreman of the Bar Z ranch, has won the love of the winsome daughter of his employer, John Graham. Alice and he are...
release : 1909.11.20popularis : 1.012
The Heart of a Cowboy
Two handsome young Americans, cowboys of the "Bar O" ranch, fall in love with Kitty Blair, the pretty daughter of a neighboring ranchman.
release : 1909.12.25popularis : 1.996
The Ranchman's Rival
The Ranchman's Rival is a silent Western
release : 1909.12.11popularis : 1.964
His Reformation
Tom Carlton, leader of a band of Western bandits, tires of his life of crime and resolves to reform.
release : 1909.12.04popularis : 5.33
Across the Plains
Jennie Lee and her father are on their way to Golden California, from a little Kansas farm, traveling in a prairie schooner. At the last settlement...
release : 1911.04.11popularis : 1.553
The Tribe's Penalty
Dorothy Sloane, the daughter of a white settler in the west, leaves her home one day for a ride on horseback to the village, but on the way in...
release : 1911.06.17popularis : 1.757
The Indian Maiden's Lesson
Rev. Warren Addington, the pastor of an eastern evangelical church, is left a will wherein is given the location of a valuable mine in Montana,...
release : 1911.04.22popularis : 2.075
The Sheriff's Chum
Two young men of a western town, Will Phelps and George Arden, are in love with the same girl, the belle of the village. Having been pals from...
release : 1911.04.08popularis : 3.201
The Lucky Card
George Maxwell, a young cowboy, rescues a fever-stricken Mexican prospector and carrying him to an inn in the vicinity like a good Samaritan, pays...
release : 1911.05.27popularis : 1.682
The Puncher's New Love
Harvey Barton, a young cowboy, is happily in love with Kate Bowers, a pretty western girl. One day he calls at her home, shows her a handbill...
release : 1911.05.13popularis : 1.508
The Infant at Snakeville
Mrs. Graham and her baby boy are on their way from the east to an uncle's ranch in Wyoming, and they have completed the long journey in safety up to...
release : 1911.06.03popularis : 1.197
The Corporation and the Ranch Girl
Upon the death of her father, Ann Newton is made the heiress of an extensive and valuable ranch in Arizona, when she is visited by the officials of...
release : 1911.07.08popularis : 2.478
Electric Insoles
Have you ever heard of Dr. Wright's Wonderful Electric Insoles? "Guaranteed to cure anything the matter with the feet, rheumatism, corns, bunions,...
release : 1910.01.12popularis : 1.126
Won by a Hold-Up
Bill Smith, a cowpuncher, is in love with Nell Parsons, daughter of Jon Parsons, a gruff old rancher. Bill wins Nell as far as she is concerned, but...
release : 1910.01.19popularis : 2.261
The Outlaw's Sacrifice
Matt Malone, a highwayman and night rider who has long baffled the police authorities, loves Nona McMahon, posing with her as a cowboy from up...
release : 1910.01.29popularis : 1.996
The Cowboy and the Squaw
Tom Ripley, a cowpuncher from the Circle A ranch, wins the hatred of Jim Simpson, another cowpuncher, when he defends Lightfeather, a pretty squaw,...
release : 1910.02.19popularis : 2.576
Method in His Madness
A doddering old gentleman, out for his morning's constitutional, suffers an attack of epilepsy in front of a saloon in the country town. Pedestrians...
release : 1910.03.16popularis : 1.771
The Bad Man and the Preacher
"Snake" Williams, typical bad man, and a little group of cowboys are found loitering lazily about the Snakeville, Ariz. barroom, when the noon-day...
release : 1910.04.16popularis : 2.351
The Faithful Indian
Will Talbot, a miner, is severely injured in an explosion of dynamite on his claim and his life is saved through the aid of his faithful Indian...
release : 1911.03.18popularis : 2.117
The Mistaken Bandit
Jim Thaw runs an isolated general store in California. He occupies a position as agent for the Great Eastern Express Company, which in the west is a...
release : 1910.04.16popularis : 2.591
The Cowboy's Sweetheart
A love story complication with Western trimmings.
release : 1910.04.23popularis : 1.894
The Little Doctor of the Foothills
A humorous picture, depicting the experience of a pretty little woman doctor who goes to Arizona to practice her profession and whose presence so...
release : 1910.05.21popularis : 1.849
The Cowpuncher's Ward
'Red' Bowman is a worthless renegade, an alleged rustler, to whom fate has been unduly kind to allow him to escape so long the honest judgment and...
release : 1910.05.14popularis : 0.8
Away Out West
Herbert Mills, a young chap from the east, with his partner, Walter Daniels, an experienced miner, are about to set out on a prospecting trip through...
release : 1910.06.04popularis : 1.245
Spike Shannon's Last Fight
'Spike' Shannon, a pugilist by occupation, signs to fight a 10-round bout, with another young knight of the ring. A contract is drawn and 'Spike' and...
release : 1911.08.26popularis : 1.025
A Western Redemption
Tom Perkins, a Chicago youth, is arrested, charged with being one of the carbarn bandits, to whom is attributed a series of bold robberies. The...
release : 1911.10.21popularis : 4.13
The Ranchman's Feud
Hiram Matthews, a western ranchman, owns an apple orchard which borders on the property of Jesse Forsyth. The former and his wife are picking apples...
release : 1910.06.11popularis : 1.853
The Bad Man's Last Deed
Arizona Pete, typical bad man, is the hero of the story.
release : 1910.07.02popularis : 1.304
The Forest Ranger
The scene opens in a backwoods hut, the home of Dave Barlow and his stepdaughter Anna. Barlow is one of a party of timber thieves who have been...
release : 1910.06.25popularis : 1.835
Under Western Skies
The girl gives herself to one of the men to escape a worse fate, though she separates from another lover to do it. Later she discovers in a dramatic...
release : 1910.08.06popularis : 0.974
The Count That Counted
Jimmy Little, a reporter for the Daily Howl, is in love. The object of his affections this time is pretty Dorothy Alexander, daughter of a...
release : 1910.08.17popularis : 0.423
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Our friend Blink is a baseball bug and a devotee of the sport. One day he finds he will have time in the afternoon to visit the ball park, and from...
release : 1910.08.24popularis : 1.545
A Flirty Affliction
Pretty Molly is afflicted with a peculiar nervous disease and after having tried many doctors is finally referred to a certain great specialist, who...
release : 1910.09.21popularis : 1.782
The Pony Express Rider
"Pony" O'Brien, or Number 3 of the relay between two desert-bound western cities, draws his horse before his sweetheart's house and lingers somewhat...
release : 1910.09.17popularis : 2.015
A Close Shave
Mr. Marc and his wife are at breakfast when the butler announces an early caller and tenders his master a card bearing the name of Mr. Bunco. When...
release : 1910.09.21popularis : 1.234
Bab's Diary
Bab comes home for the Christmas holidays. Given to fabrications, Bab has been keeping a diary in which she describes and imaginary boyfriend named...
release : 1917.10.07popularis : 1.549
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Mabel Mack's mother is deserted by her father and the mother dies. All that Mabel retains of her family history is a group photograph of her father,...
release : 1914.08.23popularis : 1.705
Cat, Dog & Co.
Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it...
release : 1929.09.14popularis : 1.536
Annabelle Lee
Young Annabelle succumbs to tuberculosis and dies, leaving her admirer distraught and without an emotional anchor.
release : 1921.05.20popularis : 0.782
Bride 13
A gang of Tripolitan pirates swooped down and kidnapped 13 wealthy brides, whom they held for ransom.
release : 1920.09.10popularis : 0.896
Wings of Pride
Olive Muir, a haughty society girl, objects when Alice Prentice, a girl of lower station, comes to visit her family. After Alice's drunken father...
release : 1920.08.01popularis : 1.55
Saturday's Lesson
A man dressed as the devil scares the gang into minding their mothers.
release : 1929.11.09popularis : 0.902
The Bride's Play
A sweet-natured young Irish woman is courted by a romantic poet and a local country gentleman. Which man will she choose?
release : 1922.01.22popularis : 0.763
A Daughter of the Law
When Eddie, the son of a police officer, gets involved with a criminal gang, his sister tries to steer him away from crime.
release : 1921.11.01popularis : 2.292
The Stealers
Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of...
release : 1920.10.03popularis : 2.131