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  1. George O'Brien (April 19, 1899 – September 4, 1985) was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the sound film era of the 1930s. He is best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau 's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and subsequent appearances in a number of Westerns in the 1930s and 1940s.

  2. George O'Brien. Actor: Sunrise. George was the son of the San Francisco Chief of Police who became a college athlete. He was the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the Pacific Fleet during World War I. In the early 1920s, George wound up in Hollywood where he worked as a stuntman and part time actor.

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  3. George O'Brien. Actor: Sunrise. George was the son of the San Francisco Chief of Police who became a college athlete. He was the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the Pacific Fleet during World War I. In the early 1920s, George wound up in Hollywood where he worked as a stuntman and part time actor.

    • April 19, 1899
    • September 4, 1985
  4. Sep 8, 1985 · George O’Brien, an athlete turned actor who appeared in about 75 films over 40 years, died Wednesday in a Broken Arrow, Okla., convalescent home. He was 86 and had been partly paralyzed since a...

  5. Jun 29, 2011 · O'Brien's rise to the top ranks of silent films reached sublime proportions when F. W. Murnau featured him in the classic romance, Sunrise. Warner Bros. plunged him into one of the first...

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  6. Jul 8, 2014 · Tall, rugged and strong, George OBrien was one of the most popular Western heroes of the 1930s, a consistent Top 10 box-office draw. Riding atop his trusty ...

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  8. George O'Brien (April 19, 1899 – September 4, 1985) was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the talkie era of the 1930s, best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.

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