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Edmond O'Brien

1915 - 1985

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Eamon Joseph O'Brien (Irish: Éamonn Ó Briain; September 10, 1915 – May 8, 1985) was an American actor of stage, screen, and television, and film director. His career spanned almost 40 years, and he won one Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. O'Brien was both leading man and a character actor of American cinema, with his co-starring performances in The Barefoot Contessa (1954) and Seven Days in May (1964) each earning him the nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; he won for his role in The Barefoot Contessa. His other notable films include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The Killers (1946), A Double Life (1947), White Heat (1949), D.O.A. (1950), The Hitch-Hiker (1953), Julius Caesar (1953), 1984 (1956), The Girl Can't Help It (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Fantastic Voyage (1966), The Wild Bunch (1969), and The Other Side of the Wind (2018). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmond O'Brien is the 2,016th most popular actor (up from 2,218th in 2019), the 3,602nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,561st in 2019) and the 981st most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Edmond O'Brien ranks 2,016 out of 13,578. Before him are Peter Lawford, Deanna Durbin, Rhea Perlman, Octavia Spencer, Tony Jaa, and Oleg Tabakov. After him are Machine Gun Kelly, Kristin Davis, Léa Seydoux, Eric Stoltz, Francesca Annis, and Maila Nurmi.

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Among people born in 1915, Edmond O'Brien ranks 103. Before him are Evgeny Lifshitz, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Georgy Sviridov, André Frossard, Alicia Rhett, and C. W. Ceram. After him are Mariano Rumor, Albert Ghiorso, Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, Lorne Greene, J. C. R. Licklider, and Herman Wouk. Among people deceased in 1985, Edmond O'Brien ranks 90. Before him are Helmuth Plessner, Karl Menger, Theodore Sturgeon, Frank Oppenheimer, Anton Karas, and Heinz Hoffmann. After him are Vladimir Jankélévitch, David Purley, Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Stefan Bellof, and Élias Sarkis.

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Among people born in United States, Edmond O'Brien ranks 3,602 out of 20,380. Before him are Andy Williams (1927), Annie Oakley (1860), Doris Hart (1925), Tommy Mottola (1949), Walter Cunningham (1932), and Tom Wilson (1931). After him are Machine Gun Kelly (1990), John Carney (1956), Victoria Woodhull (1838), Doug Jones (1954), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), and Kristin Davis (1965).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Edmond O'Brien ranks 981. Before him are DeForest Kelley (1920), William Atherton (1947), Sal Mineo (1939), Frank Morgan (1890), Rhea Perlman (1948), and Octavia Spencer (1972). After him are Machine Gun Kelly (1990), Kristin Davis (1965), Eric Stoltz (1961), Maila Nurmi (1922), Larry Miller (1953), and Frank Grillo (1965).

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