Movies by Edmond O'Brien
As part of the cast:
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50 Years: The Best of Hollywood (1999)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis …
Join host Tab Hunter in reliving some of the best moments from the greatest films of all time. This entertaining documentary features never-before-seen footage and more than 35 rare…
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The Wild Bunch (1969)
Cast: Emilio Fernandez, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine …
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Director Sam Peckinpah's brilliant 1969 Western epic tells the story of a bunch of aging outlaws, led by Pike Bishop (William Holden), whose botched plans to pull off one last job forces…
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The Shakiest Gun in the West / The Love God?: Double Feature (1966)
Cast: Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan …
Directed by: Alan Rafkin, Nat Hiken
This Don Knotts double bill will leave you in stitches! In The Shakiest Gun in the West, Knotts plays bumbling dentist Jesse, who meets an alluring woman on his way out West. After the two…
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Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell, Donald Pleasence …
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
In this sci-fi drama, a group of medical experts miniaturize themselves and a specialized vehicle so they may enter the body of a renowned scientist to remove a life-threatening blood clot in…
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Sylvia (1965)
Cast: Carroll Baker, Peter Lawford, George Maharis …
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
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 investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do…
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Seven Days in May (1964)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Military aide Martin Casey (Kirk Douglas) stumbles across a plot by his boss (Burt Lancaster) to overthrow the U.S. president (Fredric March), who has just negotiated a controversial peace…
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Rio Conchos (1964)
Cast: Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Anthony Franciosa …
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
When a huge shipment of rifles falls into the hands of warring Apaches, a group of social outcasts (Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Anthony Franciosa and Wende Wagner) plan a mission to…
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Convict Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster, Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of the real-life inmate) finds solace in his life sentence of solitary confinement for murder by becoming an…
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Cast: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles …
Directed by: John Ford
Senator Ransom Stoddard returns to his dusty hometown for the funeral of small-time outlaw Tom Doniphon. In flashbacks, Stoddard tells the story of how, with Doniphon's help, he rose to…
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The Last Voyage (1960)
Cast: Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders …
Directed by: Andrew L. Stone
When a luxury liner starts sinking in the middle of the ocean after a boiler room explosion, it's a fierce struggle for survival in this tense disaster film. Passenger Cliff Henderson…
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Up Periscope (1959)
Cast: James Garner, Andrea Martin, Edmond O'Brien …
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
James Garner stars in this maritime thriller about World War II Navy Lt. Kenneth Braden, who's assigned to join forces with a submarine crew, scuba dive to an enemy-controlled island and…
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Stopover Tokyo (1957)
Cast: Joan Collins, Robert Wagner, Edmond O'Brien …
Directed by: Richard L. Breen
American secret agent Mark Fannon (Robert Wagner) uncovers a communist plot to assassinate the United States' ambassador to Japan (Larry Keating), and plays a wicked game of cat and…
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D-Day: The Sixth of June (1956)
Cast: Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, John Williams …
Directed by: William Mace
In this atypical story about D-Day, American captain Brad Parker (Robert Taylor) and British colonel John Wynter (Richard Todd) prepare for the Normandy invasion aboard the same ship. En…
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Jayne Mansfield Collection: The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
Cast: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien …
Directed by: Frank Tashlin
Jayne Mansfield exudes glamour in this witty farce about a gangster who goes to great lengths to turn his seemingly untalented girlfriend into a star. Mobster Marty "Fatso" Murdock (Edmond…
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Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien …
Directed by: Jack Webb
Jazz cornet player Pete Kelly (Jack Webb) and his Big Seven Band have a steady gig at a Kansas City speakeasy, until Pete runs afoul of local mob boss Fran McCarg (Edmond O'Brien), who…
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The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien …
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), in a sequence of flashbacks, ponders the life of ravishing Tinseltown star Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner). A flamenco dancer at a two-bit cabaret…
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The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, Jose Torvay …
Directed by: Ida Lupino
Good friends Ray Collins (Edmond O'Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy) set out on a leisurely weekend fishing trip and pick up a hitchhiker along the way. Too bad for them, the…
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Julius Caesar (1953)
Cast: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud …
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Based on William Shakespeare's classic play, this historical drama won numerous international honors, including Best Actor BAFTAs for Marlon Brando and John Gielgud and a Best Art…
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Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Byron Haskin
In this classic trains-and-guns frontier drama, railway construction boss Jim Vesser (Edmond O'Brien) takes on merciless adversary McCabe (Sterling Hayden) in a race to complete the…
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The Turning Point (1952)
Cast: William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith …
Directed by: William Dieterle
Is John Conroy's police officer father, Matt (Tom Tully), on the wrong side of the law? John, a prosecutor trying to rid his town of crime, hopes not, but newsman Jerry McKibbon (William…
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Warpath (1951)
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Dean Jagger, Forrest Tucker …
Directed by: Byron Haskin
In this action-packed classic Western, cowboy John Vickers (Edmond O'Brien) swears he'll seek vengeance on the three men who murdered his beloved fiancée. After killing the first…
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Silver City (1951)
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Arlen …
Directed by: Byron Haskin
This action-packed Western never stops for breath as reformed thief Larkin Moffatt (Edmond O'Brien) finds a job as an assayer in a booming silver-mining town, although his past haunts…
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The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
Cast: Glenn Ford, Edmond O'Brien, Rhonda Fleming …
Directed by: Leslie Fenton
In this Civil War-era Western, Rhonda Fleming plays Candace Bronson, a titian-haired dance-hall beauty who's secretly a courier for the crumbling Confederacy -- and the lone alibi…
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Film Noir Collection: D.O.A. (1950)
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler …
Directed by: Rudolph Maté
While on vacation in San Francisco, an accountant named Frank Bigelow ingests a dose of lethal, slow-acting poison and begins a desperate search for the individual responsible for his…
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The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Rudy Vallee, Steve Brodie …
Directed by: Albert S. Rogell
In the wake of World War II, former WAVE admiral Jean Madison (Wanda Hendrix) is feeling useless and jobless. But her predicament suits an indolent trio of charming ex-airmen (Edmond…
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The Killer that Stalked New York / Two of a Kind (1950)
Cast: Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop …
Directed by: Earl McEvoy, Henry Levin
In the Killer that Stalked New York, a diamond smuggler infected with smallpox trails her cheating husband through Manhattan, spreading the disease as she goes; in Two of a Kind, three con…
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Deadline at Dawn / Backfire (1950)
Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams …
Directed by: Harold Clurman, Vincent Sherman
In Deadline at Dawn, a boozy sailor has until sunrise to discover who killed the shifty gal he met the night before, and in Backfire, a wounded veteran and his lovely nurse hit the road to…
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White Heat (1949)
Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
"Made it, Ma, top of the world!" James Cagney is riveting as homicidal gangster Cody Jarrett (complete with an "insane mother" complex) in this hard-boiled movie that costars Virginia Mayo as…
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A Double Life (1947)
Cast: Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Edmond O'Brien …
Directed by: George Cukor
Ronald Colman portrays a veteran stage actor who, while playing Othello, falls victim to the actor's malady of mixing roles with reality -- a dangerous affliction in this case, as he…
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Cast: Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Maureen O'Hara …
Directed by: William Dieterle
Overcome by lust, High Justice Frollo (Cedric Hardwicke) -- a religious fraud -- dispatches deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo (Charles Laughton) to kidnap winsome gypsy Esmeralda (Maureen…
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Man Trap (1961)
Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens …
Directed by: Edmond O'Brien
Helmed by Edmond O'Brien, this slick crime thriller stars Jeffrey Hunter as naïve Matt Jameson, whose Korean War pal Vince Biskay (David Janssen) talks Matt into helping commandeer…