Edmond O'Brien
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1915-09-10
Locus Natus: New York City, New York, USA
Et ut: Edmund O'Brien, Edmond Joseph O'Brien
Birdman of Alcatraz
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair,...
release : 1962.07.04popularis : 9.594
The Wild Bunch
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
release : 1969.06.19popularis : 14.2
Fantastic Voyage
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
release : 1966.08.24popularis : 11.881
White Heat: Top of the World
An examination of "White Heat" (1949) by film historians and critics.
release : 2005.01.01popularis : 1.556
1984
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
release : 1956.03.06popularis : 12.516
Shield for Murder
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
release : 1954.08.27popularis : 5.916
Julius Caesar
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
release : 1953.06.04popularis : 18.902
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard (James Stewart) attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) in a small Western town....
release : 1962.04.13popularis : 20.681
Seven Days in May
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
release : 1964.02.01popularis : 9.351
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The...
release : 1939.12.29popularis : 20.482
The Comedian
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps...
release : 1957.02.14popularis : 2.053
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese...
release : 1982.05.21popularis : 7.902
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the...
release : 1962.09.25popularis : 16.818
Backfire
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on...
release : 1950.01.26popularis : 3.641
The Barefoot Contessa
Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film....
release : 1954.09.29popularis : 7.449
Two of a Kind
Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son....
release : 1951.07.01popularis : 2.391
The Love God?
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive...
release : 1969.08.01popularis : 5.861
The Web
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly...
release : 1947.06.04popularis : 7.938
The Hitch-Hiker
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's...
release : 1953.03.30popularis : 8.023
A Double Life
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
release : 1947.12.25popularis : 4.372
A Cry in the Night
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
release : 1956.08.17popularis : 2.963
The 3rd Voice
Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an act of jealousy and greed she convinces an...
release : 1960.03.05popularis : 6.406
The Killers
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight....
release : 1946.08.30popularis : 16.008
The Girl Can't Help It
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.
release : 1956.12.01popularis : 3.993
711 Ocean Drive
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up...
release : 1950.07.01popularis : 9.516
Pete Kelly's Blues
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange...
release : 1955.07.31popularis : 3.05
An Act of Murder
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.
release : 1948.12.05popularis : 3.385
The Turning Point
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't...
release : 1952.07.12popularis : 4.717
The Admiral Was a Lady
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
release : 1950.08.04popularis : 5.41
Between Midnight and Dawn
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are...
release : 1950.10.01popularis : 3.625
The Last Voyage
The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert...
release : 1960.02.19popularis : 7.449
They Only Kill Their Masters
An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of...
release : 1972.11.22popularis : 2.572
White Heat
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After...
release : 1949.09.02popularis : 18.125
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
release : 1943.02.19popularis : 2.818
The Great Impostor
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite...
release : 1960.12.23popularis : 5.313
D-Day the Sixth of June
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
release : 1956.05.29popularis : 5.768
Moon Pilot
An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of...
release : 1962.04.05popularis : 3.613
Up Periscope
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy...
release : 1959.03.04popularis : 10.565
Man in the Dark
A prisoner undergoes experimental brain surgery in order to get early parole. He released but has no memories. Things get dangerous when a group of...
release : 1953.04.09popularis : 3.908
D.O.A.
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him....
release : 1949.12.23popularis : 16.489
99 and 44/100% Dead
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's...
release : 1974.08.29popularis : 1.562
Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...
release : 2004.07.28popularis : 6.824
The Rack
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the...
release : 1956.11.02popularis : 6.114
The Bigamist
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr....
release : 1953.12.03popularis : 5.395
Task Force
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the...
release : 1949.08.30popularis : 2.244
For the Love of Mary
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
release : 1948.09.01popularis : 1.679
A Ticket for Thaddeus
A Polish refugee and new citizen gets involved in a slight car accident, but he doesn't fully understand American life, and believes he will be sent...
release : 1956.05.09popularis : 1.477
Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years...
release : 1973.10.19popularis : 8.992
The Hanged Man
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one...
release : 1964.11.18popularis : 1.128
Sylvia
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an...
release : 1965.02.10popularis : 3.839
Fighter Squadron
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.
release : 1948.11.27popularis : 6.099
The Redhead and The Cowboy
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is...
release : 1951.03.15popularis : 2.985
Synanon
A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House in Santa Monica, California.
release : 1965.05.05popularis : 2.204
The World Was His Jury
A sea captain stands trial for manslaughter after 162 people are killed in a fire aboard his cruise ship. Director Fred F. Sears' 1958 drama stars...
release : 1958.01.01popularis : 2.904
Powder Town
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond...
release : 1942.06.07popularis : 7.7
China Venture
American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.
release : 1953.09.07popularis : 4.381
Another Part of the Forest
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
release : 1948.05.18popularis : 6.045
Stopover Tokyo
An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.
release : 1957.11.28popularis : 2.377
Denver and Rio Grande
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers...
release : 1952.05.16popularis : 4.582
Obliging Young Lady
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
release : 1942.04.01popularis : 4.385
Winged Victory
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with...
release : 1944.12.22popularis : 5.754
Warpath
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but...
release : 1951.11.22popularis : 10.274
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as...
release : 1941.03.14popularis : 2.613
To Commit a Murder
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
release : 1967.04.07popularis : 0.738
The Shanghai Story
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the...
release : 1954.09.01popularis : 3.551
What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of sophisticated con men who force her, because of her...
release : 1971.12.18popularis : 5.257
Isn't It Shocking?
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
release : 1973.10.02popularis : 2.169
Parachute Battalion
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond...
release : 1941.09.12popularis : 4.528
The Viscount
Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a pleasant vacation on the Spanish coast with a few...
release : 1967.04.04popularis : 4.334
Sing Boy Sing
The teenage son of a rural preacher becomes a huge Elvis-like rock 'n' roll star, but he has trouble adjusting to fame and success.
release : 1958.02.21popularis : 1.758
The Intruders
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
release : 1970.11.10popularis : 8.597
The Big Land
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow...
release : 1957.03.01popularis : 5.634
The Doomsday Flight
A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.
release : 1966.12.13popularis : 2.531
River of Mystery
A couple of freelance explosives experts find jungle adventure while being stalked by a revolutionary leader and a diamond hunter.
release : 1971.10.01popularis : 0.883
Jigsaw
In this pilot for the 1972-73 series, a detective specializing in missing persons cases finds himself accused of murder after being found unconscious...
release : 1972.03.26popularis : 1.812
Cow Country
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
release : 1953.04.25popularis : 2.514
The Other Side of the Wind
Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he...
release : 2018.11.02popularis : 8.445
Something in the Wind
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
release : 1947.07.21popularis : 2.354
Rio Conchos
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal...
release : 1964.10.28popularis : 5.273
Silver City
Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to...
release : 1951.12.01popularis : 2.635
Dark Stranger
A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out.
release : 1955.01.08popularis : 0.951
Dream No Evil
Grace is a troubled young lady with some serious daddy issues. She was adopted as a young girl and raised up in a family of traveling faith healers....
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 3.71
The Ambitious One
This Yves Allegret film is set in French Polynesia and stars Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andrea Parisy, Nicole Berger and Reg Lye. Basehart is...
release : 1959.10.14popularis : 1.726
Déjà-Vu
A cinematic experience by Douglas Gordon - in which the film D.O.A. is screened simultaneously on three screens beside one another, but at slightly...
release : 2000.03.29popularis : 2.873
The Outsider
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies...
release : 1967.11.21popularis : 5.293
The Greatest Show on Earth
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won...
release : 1952.02.16popularis : 8.954
The Adventures of Gallegher
An energetic newspaper copyboy in 1889 wants to become a reporter, and he is soon more deeply involved in his stories than he had expected. When he...
release : 1964.01.24popularis : 2.527
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
The young copyboy helps the town’s first female newspaper reporter, who is writing a series on confidence men. The swindlers are caught up in a...
release : 1965.10.03popularis : 1.591
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
Oscar nominated "Making of" documentary about Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.
release : 1996.11.01popularis : 0.812
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the...
release : 2010.05.05popularis : 4.064
Under Capricorn
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to...
release : 1949.09.08popularis : 7.717