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American film actor
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Male
Place of birth
City of Orange Township
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LeoPlace of death
Hollywood
Age
69 years
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Biography
Henry O'Neill (August 10, 1891 – May 18, 1961) was an American film actor known for playing gray-haired fathers, lawyers, and similarly dignified roles during the 1930s and 1940s.
Life and career
He was born in Orange, New Jersey.
O'Neill began his acting career on the stage, after dropping out of college to join a traveling theatre company. He served in the military in World War I, then returned to the stage. In the early 1930s he began appearing in films, including The Big Shakedown (1934) with Charles Farrell and Bette Davis, the Errol Flynn/Olivia de Havilland Western Santa Fe Trail (1940), the Frank Sinatra/Gene Kelly musical Anchors Aweigh (1945), The Green Years (1946), and The Reckless Moment (1949). His last film was The Wings of Eagles (1957), starring John Wayne.
He was on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
O'Neill died in Hollywood, California at the age of 69.
Partial filmography
- From Headquarters (1933)
- The World Changes (1933)
- The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
- I Loved a Woman (1933)
- Lady Killer (1933)
- The Big Shakedown (1934)
- Murder in the Clouds (1934)
- I've Got Your Number (1934)
- Fashion Follies of 1934 (1934)
- Bedside (1934)
- Massacre (1934)
- The Key (1934) aka High Peril
- Wonder Bar (1934)
- Midnight (1934)
- Journal of a Crime (1934)
- Flirtation Walk (1934)
- Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
- Upper World (1934)
- Fog Over Frisco (1934)
- Now I'll Tell (1934)
- Side Streets (1934)
- The Personality Kid (1934)
- The Man with Two Faces (1934)
- Big Hearted Herbert (1934)
- Madame DuBarry (1934)
- Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
- The Secret Bride (1934)
- The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
- While the Patient Slept (1935)
- Living on Velvet (1935)
- Sweet Music (1935)
- Bright Lights (1935)
- Personal Maid's Secret (1935)
- The Florentine Dagger (1935)
- Black Fury (1935)
- Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)
- Stranded (1935)
- We're in the Money (1935)
- Special Agent (1935)
- The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
- Alias Mary Dow (1935)
- Dr. Socrates (1935)
- Dinky (1935)
- The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
- The Walking Dead (1936)
- The Golden Arrow (1936)
- Bullets or Ballots (1936)
- Rainbow on the River (1936)
- The Big Noise (1936)
- The White Angel (1936)
- Road Gang (1936)
- Freshman Love (1936)
- Boulder Dam (1936)
- Bullets or Ballots (1936)
- Two Against the World (1936)
- Anthony Adverse (1936)
- Marked Woman (1937)
- The Go Getter (1937)
- The Singing Marine (1937)
- Green Light (1937)
- The Great O'Malley (1937)
- Draegerman Courage (1937)
- Submarine D-1 (1937)
- The Great Garrick (1937)
- Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
- First Lady (1937)
- Wells Fargo (1937)
- White Banners (1938)
- Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
- The Chaser (1938)
- Jezebel (1938)
- Yellow Jack (1938)
- Racket Busters (1938)
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
- Girls on Probation (1938)
- Brother Rat (1938)
- Wings of the Navy (1939)
- Dodge City (1939)
- Juarez (1939)
- Lucky Night (1939)
- Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)
- The Man Who Dared (1939)
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
- Everybody's Hobby (1939)
- Sons of Liberty (1939 short)
- The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
- Four Wives (1939)
- Invisible Stripes (1939)
- Service with the Colors (1940)
- The Fighting 69th (1940)
- The Trial of Mary Dugan (1940)
- Whistling in the Dark (1940)
- Keeping Company (1940)
- Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
- Money and the Woman (1940)
- A Child is Born (1940)
- Calling Philo Vance (1940)
- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
- Castle on the Hudson (1940)
- 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
- They Drive by Night (1940) (uncredited)
- Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
- Santa Fe Trail (1940)
- Men of Boys Town (1941)
- Billy the Kid (1941)
- Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
- Born to Sing (1941)
- Down in San Diego (1941)
- The Get-Away (1941)
- Whistling in the Dark (1941)
- Honky Tonk (1941)
- Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
- Johnny Eager (1942)
- The Bugle Sounds (1942)
- Tortilla Flat (1942)
- White Cargo (1942)
- Stand by for Action (1942)
- The Human Comedy (1943)
- Air Raid Wardens (1943)
- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
- Best Foot Forward (1943)
- Girl Crazy (1943)
- Lost Angel (1943)
- A Guy Named Joe (1943)
- Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
- The Heavenly Body (1944)
- Rationing (1944)
- Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
- Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
- Keep Your Powder Dry (1944)
- Nothing but Trouble (1944)
- This Man's Navy (1945)
- Dangerous Partners (1945)
- Anchors Aweigh (1945)
- The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
- The Green Years (1946)
- The Virginian (1946)
- Bad Bascomb (1946)
- Little Mr. Jim (1946)
- Three Wise Fools (1946)
- The Beginning or the End (1947)
- Alias Nick Beal (1949)
- Holiday Affair (1949)
- You're My Everything (1949)
- The Reckless Moment (1949)
- Strange Bargain (1949)
- No Man of Her Own (1950)
- Convicted (1950)
- The Second Woman (1950)
- The People Against O'Hara (1951)
- The Family Secret (1951)
- Scandal Sheet (1952)
- Scarlet Angel (1952)
- The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
- Untamed (1955)
- The Wings of Eagles (1957)
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