William H. O'Brien

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1891-07-19

Day of Death

1981-04-18

Place of Birth

Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia

William H. O'Brien

Biography

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.

Filmography (284)

⭐ 4.6 Role: Mr. Miller (uncredited)

The Todd Killings

⭐ 7.0 Role: Portobello Road Passerby (uncredited)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

⭐ 6.6 Role: Old Chess Player (uncredited)

Support Your Local Gunfighter

⭐ 6.5 Role: Man in Army Post Saloon (uncredited)

Rio Lobo

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter at Men's Club

Airport

⭐ 6.0 Role: Butler (uncredited)

Topaz

⭐ 6.1 Role: Funeral Guest (uncredited)

The Comic

⭐ 4.8 Role: Hotel Lobby Extra (uncredited)

The Trouble with Girls

⭐ 6.0 Role: Bartender (uncredited)

Valley of the Dolls

⭐ 7.6 Role: Hotel Guest (uncredited)

The Graduate

⭐ 5.6 Role: The Butler (archive footage) (uncredited)

One of Our Spies Is Missing

⭐ 5.8 Role: Waiter at Officer's Ball (uncredited)

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

⭐ 6.4 Role: Man at Customs (uncredited)

Munster, Go Home!

⭐ 6.2 Role: Unknown

Gunpoint

⭐ 6.3 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

The Wheeler Dealers

⭐ 5.7 Role: Audience Member (uncredited)

Critic's Choice

⭐ 8.0 Role: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

To Kill a Mockingbird

⭐ 6.3 Role: Audience Member (uncredited)

Gypsy

⭐ 6.5 Role: Bund Meeting Spectator

Pressure Point

⭐ 7.6 Role: Funeral Assistant (uncredited)

The Children's Hour

⭐ 8.0 Role: German Prisoner in Cafeteria (uncredited)

Judgment at Nuremberg

⭐ 6.4 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

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

⭐ 6.4 Role: Waiter at Burlesque Club (uncredited)

Ocean's Eleven

⭐ 7.3 Role: Train Conductor

Elmer Gantry

⭐ 6.4 Role: Passenger Exiting Elevator (uncredited)

Who Was That Lady?

⭐ 6.3 Role: Circus Spectator

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

⭐ 5.1 Role: Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)

The Story on Page One

⭐ 7.1 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Pillow Talk

⭐ 6.1 Role: Unknown

Cry Tough

⭐ 8.1 Role: Hotel Guest (uncredited)

Some Like It Hot

⭐ 7.2 Role: Man (uncredited)

The Last Hurrah

⭐ 6.8 Role: Hotel Take-Out Delivery Man (uncredited)

Murder by Contract

⭐ 7.0 Role: Waiter at Christmas Party

Home Before Dark

⭐ 5.8 Role: Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Money, Women and Guns

⭐ 8.2 Role: Barrister (uncredited)

Witness for the Prosecution

⭐ 5.6 Role: Townsman (uncredited)

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

⭐ 5.7 Role: Rooming House Boarder (uncredited)

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

⭐ 5.8 Role: Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)

Bombers B-52

⭐ 6.7 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Zero Hour!

⭐ 5.3 Role: Surprise Party Guest (uncredited)

The Helen Morgan Story

⭐ 8.1 Role: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

The Joker is Wild

⭐ 4.7 Role: Onlooker at Fire (uncredited)

Carnival Rock

⭐ 5.0 Role: Dixon's Valet (uncredited)

Chicago Confidential

⭐ 7.6 Role: Waiter at 21 (uncredited)

Sweet Smell of Success

⭐ 4.7 Role: Juror (uncredited)

The Unholy Wife

⭐ 6.7 Role: Party Guest (uncredited)

Designing Woman

⭐ 5.5 Role: Juror (uncredited)

The Tattered Dress

⭐ 6.7 Role: Extra (uncredited)

Around the World in 80 Days

⭐ 7.2 Role: Ringsider (uncredited)

The Harder They Fall

⭐ 6.0 Role: Waiter

Anything Goes

⭐ 7.2 Role: Unknown

There's Always Tomorrow

⭐ 6.1 Role: Unknown

The Square Jungle

⭐ 5.9 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Sincerely Yours

⭐ 6.4 Role: Butler (uncredited)

Illegal

⭐ 7.0 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

It's Always Fair Weather

⭐ 7.0 Role: Man at Train Station (uncredited)

The Seven Year Itch

⭐ 6.4 Role: Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

Daddy Long Legs

⭐ 6.0 Role: Townsman (uncredited)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

⭐ 6.0 Role: Unknown

New York Confidential

⭐ 6.2 Role: Movie Patron (uncredited)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

⭐ 5.7 Role: Bartender (uncredited)

Battle Cry

⭐ 6.6 Role: Servant (uncredited)

Désirée

⭐ 7.1 Role: Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)

A Star Is Born

⭐ 7.2 Role: Servant

Woman's World

⭐ 6.8 Role: Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

The Bounty Hunter

⭐ 7.5 Role: Bartender (uncredited)

Sabrina

⭐ 5.9 Role: Restaurant Cook

The High and the Mighty

⭐ 8.0 Role: Waiter at Stag Dinner (uncredited)

Dial M for Murder

⭐ 6.9 Role: Townsman (uncredited)

The Far Country

⭐ 7.3 Role: Ship Passenger (uncredited)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

⭐ 7.1 Role: Senator (uncredited)

Julius Caesar

⭐ 7.0 Role: Bartender

Fort Ti

⭐ 6.1 Role: Bartender Joe

Trouble Along the Way

⭐ 7.3 Role: Waiter at Party (uncredited)

The Bad and the Beautiful

⭐ 7.3 Role: Waiter at Party (uncredited)

The Star

⭐ 6.4 Role: Barfly (uncredited)

Horizons West

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Carrie

⭐ 7.7 Role: Church Member (uncredited)

High Noon

⭐ 5.1 Role: Observer at Scene (uncredited)

Hong Kong

⭐ 6.9 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Something to Live For

⭐ 5.4 Role: Townsman (uncredited)

Superman and the Mole Men

⭐ 6.1 Role: Unknown

The Strange Door

⭐ 6.8 Role: Unknown

Bannerline

⭐ 6.2 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Iron Man

⭐ 7.6 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

A Streetcar Named Desire

⭐ 7.8 Role: Customer at Minosa's (uncredited)

Ace in the Hole

⭐ 7.2 Role: Man Entering Apt. Building (uncredited)

He Ran All the Way

⭐ 7.3 Role: Servant at Eastman's Party (uncredited)

A Place in the Sun

⭐ 6.7 Role: Café Waiter (uncredited)

Hollywood Story

⭐ 6.1 Role: Waiter at Party (uncredited)

On the Riviera

⭐ 6.3 Role: Fight Spectator (uncredited)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

⭐ 6.0 Role: Townsman (uncredited)

Frenchie

⭐ 6.1 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Let's Dance

⭐ 8.1 Role: Waiter at Margo's Party (uncredited)

All About Eve

⭐ 6.4 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Shakedown

⭐ 7.0 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

The Men

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Louisa

⭐ 7.0 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Father of the Bride

⭐ 7.0 Role: Waiter at Party (uncredited)

The Damned Don't Cry

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter at Party (uncredited)

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

⭐ 6.3 Role: Conventioneer (uncredited)

Woman in Hiding

⭐ 5.2 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

⭐ 7.3 Role: Audience Spectator (uncredited)

Alias the Champ

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter

Once More, My Darling

⭐ 6.0 Role: Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

It's a Great Feeling

⭐ 9.0 Role: Barber's Customer (uncredited)

Special Agent

⭐ 6.8 Role: Bartender (uncredited)

The Doolins of Oklahoma

⭐ 6.6 Role: Room Service Waiter (uncredited)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

⭐ 6.4 Role: Unknown

Johnny Allegro

⭐ 7.1 Role: Unknown

Flamingo Road

⭐ 6.8 Role: Waiter (Uncredited)

You Gotta Stay Happy

⭐ 6.8 Role: Waiter at Wedding Reception (uncredited)

Sorry, Wrong Number

⭐ 6.0 Role: Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

Race Street

⭐ 2.9 Role: Bartender (uncredited)

Jungle Goddess

⭐ 6.6 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

I Walk Alone

⭐ 6.6 Role: Bartender at Stork Club (uncredited)

Daisy Kenyon

⭐ 6.8 Role: Ship's Waiter (uncredited)

Road to Rio

⭐ 6.7 Role: Bartender (uncredited)

Body and Soul

⭐ 6.7 Role: Servant with Tray (uncredited)

The Unsuspected

⭐ 6.2 Role: Card Dealer (uncredited)

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

⭐ 6.6 Role: Barrister (uncredited)

Ivy

⭐ 6.2 Role: Unknown

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

⭐ 7.1 Role: Executive (uncredited)

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

⭐ 8.0 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Undercover Maisie

⭐ 7.8 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

The Best Years of Our Lives

⭐ 5.9 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Undercurrent

⭐ 6.4 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Nobody Lives Forever

⭐ 6.5 Role: Court Spectator (uncredited)

Angel on My Shoulder

⭐ 7.6 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

The Big Sleep

⭐ 7.1 Role: Danbury Servant (uncredited)

The Time of Their Lives

⭐ 6.7 Role: Miner (uncredited)

Canyon Passage

⭐ 6.3 Role: Recording Lab Assistant (uncredited)

Two Sisters from Boston

⭐ 6.6 Role: Detective at Murder Scene

Dressed to Kill

⭐ 5.6 Role: Constable (uncredited)

She-Wolf of London

⭐ 4.7 Role: Waiter at Mindy's (uncredited)

Do You Love Me

⭐ 5.5 Role: Waiter at Wedding Brunch (uncredited)

The Hoodlum Saint

⭐ 5.8 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

The Tiger Woman

⭐ 6.6 Role: Bus Passenger (uncredited)

Fallen Angel

⭐ 5.7 Role: Coach Footman (uncredited)

Kitty

⭐ 6.7 Role: Unknown

Lady on a Train

⭐ 6.7 Role: Troupe Member (uncredited)

The Naughty Nineties

⭐ 6.5 Role: Pembrook House Waiter (uncredited)

The Woman in Green

⭐ 8.0 Role: Man with Chimpanzee (uncredited)

Hollywood Scout

⭐ 7.2 Role: Footman (uncredited)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

⭐ 6.4 Role: Guest at Salon Concert (uncredited)

A Song to Remember

⭐ 7.1 Role: Train Passenger (uncredited)

The Thin Man Goes Home

⭐ 5.5 Role: Audience Member (Uncredited)

The Climax

⭐ 5.9 Role: Party Waiter (uncredited)

In Society

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Christmas Holiday

⭐ 6.3 Role: Servant Peeking in Keyhole (uncredited)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

⭐ 7.0 Role: Doorman (uncredited)

The Spider Woman

⭐ 5.7 Role: Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

Government Girl

⭐ 6.8 Role: Courtroom Spectator (Uncredited)

Swing Shift Maisie

⭐ 5.9 Role: Troop Ship Survivor (Uncredited)

So Proudly We Hail

⭐ 7.0 Role: Lieutenant-Commander at Meeting (uncredited)

Action in the North Atlantic

⭐ 6.5 Role: Bartender (uncredited)

The Leopard Man

⭐ 7.0 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

No Time for Love

⭐ 6.3 Role: Waiter

Margin for Error

⭐ 4.9 Role: Unknown

Tomorrow We Live

⭐ 6.7 Role: Detective Taking in Hixby (Uncredited)

Maisie Gets Her Man

⭐ 6.3 Role: Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)

The Falcon Takes Over

⭐ 6.6 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Take a Letter, Darling

⭐ 6.7 Role: Waiter at Party

Brooklyn Orchid

⭐ 5.5 Role: King's Club Worker (uncredited)

Lady for a Night

⭐ 7.4 Role: Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)

Ball of Fire

⭐ 6.1 Role: Waiter at Manila Club (uncredited)

Keep 'Em Flying

⭐ 6.8 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Niagara Falls

⭐ 5.8 Role: Unknown

The Blonde from Singapore

⭐ 5.1 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

The Feminine Touch

⭐ 7.2 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

It Started with Eve

⭐ 6.3 Role: Unknown

Million Dollar Baby

⭐ 8.0 Role: Secretary (uncredited)

Citizen Kane

⭐ 5.6 Role: Country Club Waiter (uncredited)

Pot o' Gold

⭐ 6.4 Role: Second Butler (uncredited)

Topper Returns

⭐ 7.3 Role: Nightclub Waiter

Love Thy Neighbor

⭐ 5.6 Role: Joe, Club Roscoe Waiter (uncredited)

One Night in the Tropics

⭐ 5.0 Role: Waiter

Mexican Spitfire Out West

⭐ 6.2 Role: Waiter

Hit Parade of 1941

⭐ 6.9 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

City for Conquest

⭐ 5.3 Role: Waiter in Bar (uncredited)

No Time for Comedy

⭐ 6.8 Role: Waiter

Hired Wife

⭐ 5.7 Role: English Sailor Who Pleads for Water

Captain Caution

⭐ 5.0 Role: Waiter

Buck Benny Rides Again

⭐ 6.0 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Turnabout

⭐ 6.8 Role: Waiter

Edison, the Man

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter

Forty Little Mothers

⭐ 7.2 Role: Waiter Bringing Caviar

Curtain Call

⭐ 7.9 Role: Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

Rebecca

⭐ 6.0 Role: Bald Bartender

The Showdown

⭐ 6.9 Role: Man in Unemployment Office (uncredited)

A Chump at Oxford

⭐ 5.6 Role: Waiter

City of Chance

⭐ 6.3 Role: Turnkey (uncredited)

The Earl of Chicago

⭐ 6.0 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Remember?

⭐ 5.4 Role: Legionnaire

Zorro's Fighting Legion

⭐ 6.2 Role: Lawn Party Waiter (Uncredited)

That's Right – You're Wrong

⭐ 5.9 Role: Nightclub Waiter

Eternally Yours

⭐ 7.5 Role: Doorman (uncredited)

Honeymoon in Bali

⭐ 4.8 Role: Condor Club Headwaiter

Girl from Rio

⭐ 7.1 Role: Servant

The Man in the Iron Mask

⭐ 5.5 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Stronger Than Desire

⭐ 6.3 Role: Nightclub Waiter

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

⭐ 5.8 Role: Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)

The Rage of Paris

⭐ 6.6 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Test Pilot

⭐ 6.7 Role: Senate Waiter (uncredited)

In Old Chicago

⭐ 7.0 Role: Butler at Party (uncredited)

Gold Is Where You Find It

⭐ 6.4 Role: Reporter (uncredited)

The Big Broadcast of 1938

⭐ 5.5 Role: Headwaiter

Wells Fargo

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

The Firefly

⭐ 8.0 Role: Bored Spectator (uncredited)

Dance Charlie Dance

⭐ 6.7 Role: Bald Saloon Waiter

North of the Rio Grande

⭐ 7.0 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Larceny on the Air

⭐ 4.9 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Sinner Take All

⭐ 6.0 Role: Nightclub Waiter

Sing, Baby, Sing

⭐ 6.6 Role: Waiter at Chicken's Ball (uncredited)

San Francisco

⭐ 5.4 Role: Nightclub Waiter

Special Investigator

⭐ 5.4 Role: Extra as Ship Waiter

Champagne Charlie

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter in Restaurant (uncredited)

The Country Doctor

⭐ 6.3 Role: Juror (uncredited)

The Walking Dead

⭐ 10.0 Role: Waiter

To Beat the Band

⭐ 7.4 Role: Stagehand (uncredited)

A Night at the Opera

⭐ 10.0 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

The Old Homestead

⭐ 5.7 Role: Man at Mayoral Debate

His Family Tree

⭐ 6.3 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

The Gay Deception

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter

Diamond Jim

⭐ 8.0 Role: Waiter in Opera House

The Arizonian

⭐ 7.4 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Vagabond Lady

⭐ 10.0 Role: The Butler (uncredited)

The Misses Stooge

⭐ 7.2 Role: Casino de Paree Waiter

Go Into Your Dance

⭐ 6.6 Role: Waiter

Shadow of Doubt

⭐ 5.6 Role: Banquet Servant

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter #2 (uncredited)

Bachelor Bait

⭐ 5.8 Role: Tony's Butler

Hollywood Mystery

⭐ 7.5 Role: Bartender (uncredited)

The Thin Man

⭐ 5.9 Role: Waiter Getting Carl to Telephone

Long Lost Father

⭐ 5.7 Role: Hammond's Butler (uncredited)

Big Time Or Bust

⭐ 7.3 Role: Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)

Only Yesterday

⭐ 6.9 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Midnight Mary

⭐ 6.2 Role: Butler (uncredited)

Ex-Lady

⭐ 7.6 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

⭐ 5.1 Role: Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

The Half-Naked Truth

⭐ 7.0 Role: Croupier

Faithless

⭐ 6.4 Role: Waiter (Uncredited)

Movie Crazy

⭐ 6.8 Role: Butler (uncredited)

Pack Up Your Troubles

⭐ 6.6 Role: Waiter at Gaerste Party (uncredited)

Red-Headed Woman

⭐ 6.5 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Merrily We Go to Hell

⭐ 7.4 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Scarface

⭐ 6.2 Role: Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

The Wet Parade

⭐ 6.6 Role: Man (uncredited)

Emma

⭐ 6.8 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

West of Broadway

⭐ 8.0 Role: Sleek's Butler

Forgotten Women

⭐ 6.2 Role: Victor - Mike's Butler

The Guilty Generation

⭐ 4.0 Role: Waiter

The Road to Reno

⭐ 7.0 Role: Waiter

Monkey Business

⭐ 6.0 Role: Chéri-Bibi's Valet (uncredited)

The Phantom of Paris

⭐ 6.1 Role: Duncan (uncredited)

Five and Ten

⭐ 6.8 Role: Nick's Chauffeur Bill (uncredited)

Smart Money

⭐ 5.3 Role: Henchman Conte

The Sky Raiders

⭐ 4.3 Role: Bartender

Daybreak

⭐ 4.6 Role: Elevator starter

Ladies' Man

⭐ 6.0 Role: Brooks' Butler (uncredited)

Men Call It Love

⭐ 5.5 Role: Sailor (uncredited)

Dirigible

⭐ 6.9 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Little Caesar

⭐ 5.7 Role: Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)

Reaching for the Moon

⭐ 5.8 Role: Waiter at Ball

New Moon

⭐ 5.6 Role: Waiter at Royal Club (uncredited)

Sin Takes a Holiday

⭐ 7.0 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Playboy of Paris

⭐ 6.6 Role: Butler

Anybody's Woman

⭐ 4.1 Role: Struthers - 2nd Butler (as William O'Brien)

Let Us Be Gay

⭐ 4.2 Role: Footman

Strictly Unconventional

⭐ 5.5 Role: Party Butler #2 (uncredited)

Children of Pleasure

⭐ 6.0 Role: Waiter at Coney Island (uncredited)

Anna Christie

⭐ 6.8 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

Street of Chance

⭐ 6.9 Role: Butler (uncredited)

The Trespasser

⭐ 6.5 Role: Man Peering Into Room (uncredited)

A Woman of Affairs

⭐ 5.8 Role: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Submarine

⭐ 6.5 Role: Detective Frisking Nick

The Racket

⭐ 7.0 Role: Waiter

Captain Swagger

⭐ 5.0 Role: Waiter at Blackie Joe's (uncredited)

The Singing Fool

⭐ 7.3 Role: Cafe Waiter Serving Wine (uncredited)

The Mysterious Lady

⭐ 6.7 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

The Patsy

⭐ 6.3 Role: Apartment Tenant

While the City Sleeps

⭐ 6.6 Role: Unknown

The Mad Whirl

⭐ 6.3 Role: College Student (uncredited)

The Blot

⭐ 5.7 Role: Waiter (uncredited)

The Delicious Little Devil