William H. O'Brien

Jul 19, 1891 - Apr 18, 1981 (89 years old) in Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia

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.

Known For

The Twilight Zone

Audience Member (uncredited)

Rawhide

Bartender (uncredited)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Grandpa

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Juror (uncredited)

Rebecca

Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

Citizen Kane

Secretary (uncredited)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

The Graduate

Hotel Guest (uncredited)

Some Like It Hot

Hotel Guest (uncredited)

Ocean's Eleven

Waiter at Burlesque Club (uncredited)

Credits

The Todd Killings 1971

Mr. Miller (uncredited)

★ 4.3
Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971

Portobello Road Passerby (uncredited)

★ 7
Support Your Local Gunfighter 1971

Old Chess Player (uncredited)

★ 6.6
Rio Lobo 1970

Man in Army Post Saloon (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Airport 1970

Waiter at Men's Club

★ 6.4
Topaz 1969

Butler (uncredited)

★ 6
The Comic 1969

Funeral Guest (uncredited)

★ 5.9
The Trouble with Girls 1969

Hotel Lobby Extra (uncredited)

★ 4.9
Valley of the Dolls 1967

Bartender (uncredited)

★ 6
The Graduate 1967

Hotel Guest (uncredited)

★ 7.6
Not With My Wife, You Don't 1966

Waiter at Officer's Ball (uncredited)

★ 6
Munster, Go Home! 1966

Man at Customs (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Gunpoint 1966

★ 6
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 1964

Grandpa

★ 7.2
The Wheeler Dealers 1963

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.2
To Kill a Mockingbird 1962

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

★ 8
Gypsy 1962

Audience Member (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Pressure Point 1962

Bund Meeting Spectator

★ 6.6
The Children's Hour 1961

Funeral Assistant (uncredited)

★ 7.7
Judgment at Nuremberg 1961

German Prisoner in Cafeteria (uncredited)

★ 8
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein 1961

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6
Ocean's Eleven 1960

Waiter at Burlesque Club (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Elmer Gantry 1960

Train Conductor

★ 7.3
Who Was That Lady? 1960

Passenger Exiting Elevator (uncredited)

★ 6.2
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus 1960

Circus Spectator

★ 6.1
The Story on Page One 1959

Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)

★ 5.1
Pillow Talk 1959

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7.1
The Twilight Zone 1959

Audience Member (uncredited)

★ 8.4
Cry Tough 1959

★ 5.8
Some Like It Hot 1959

Hotel Guest (uncredited)

★ 8.1
Rawhide 1959

Bartender (uncredited)

★ 7.2
The Last Hurrah 1958

Man (uncredited)

★ 7.1
Murder by Contract 1958

Hotel Take-Out Delivery Man (uncredited)

★ 6.8
Home Before Dark 1958

Waiter at Christmas Party

★ 7.2
Money, Women and Guns 1958

Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

★ 5.3
Witness for the Prosecution 1957

Barrister (uncredited)

★ 8.2
The Pied Piper of Hamelin 1957

Townsman (uncredited)

★ 5.6
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein 1957

Rooming House Boarder (uncredited)

★ 5.5
Bombers B-52 1957

Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)

★ 5.6
Zero Hour! 1957

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.6
The Joker is Wild 1957

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

★ 8.1
Carnival Rock 1957

Onlooker at Fire (uncredited)

★ 4.4
Chicago Confidential 1957

Dixon's Valet (uncredited)

★ 5
Sweet Smell of Success 1957

Waiter at 21 (uncredited)

★ 7.6
The Unholy Wife 1957

Juror (uncredited)

★ 4.6
Designing Woman 1957

Party Guest (uncredited)

★ 6.6
The Tattered Dress 1957

Juror (uncredited)

★ 5.6
Around the World in Eighty Days 1956

Extra (uncredited)

★ 6.7
The Harder They Fall 1956

Ringsider (uncredited)

★ 7.1
Anything Goes 1956

Waiter

★ 5.9
There's Always Tomorrow 1956

★ 7.1
The Square Jungle 1955

★ 6
Illegal 1955

Butler (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955

Juror (uncredited)

★ 7.7
It's Always Fair Weather 1955

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy 1955

Townsman (uncredited)

★ 6.1
The Seven Year Itch 1955

Man at Train Station (uncredited)

★ 7.1
Daddy Long Legs 1955

Hotel Waiter

★ 6.3
New York Confidential 1955

★ 5.8
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops 1955

Movie Patron (uncredited)

★ 6.1
Battle Cry 1955

Bartender (uncredited)

★ 5.7
A Star Is Born 1954

Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)

★ 7.1
Woman's World 1954

Servant

★ 7.1
Sabrina 1954

Bartender (uncredited)

★ 7.5
The High and the Mighty 1954

Restaurant Cook

★ 5.9
Dial M for Murder 1954

Waiter at Stag Dinner (uncredited)

★ 8
The Far Country 1954

Townsman (uncredited)

★ 6.9
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953

Ship Passenger (uncredited)

★ 7.3
Fort Ti 1953

Bartender

★ 6.5
Trouble Along the Way 1953

Bartender Joe

★ 5.9
The Bad and the Beautiful 1952

Waiter at Party (uncredited)

★ 7.3
The Star 1952

Waiter at Party (uncredited)

★ 7.2
Horizons West 1952

Barfly (uncredited)

★ 6
Carrie 1952

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.4
High Noon 1952

Church Member (uncredited)

★ 7.7
Hong Kong 1952

Observer at Scene (uncredited)

★ 4.5
Something to Live For 1952

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.8
Superman and the Mole Men 1951

Townsman (uncredited)

★ 5.3
Bannerline 1951

★ 6
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7.6
Ace in the Hole 1951

Customer at Minosa's (uncredited)

★ 7.9
The Strange Door 1951

★ 6.2
He Ran All the Way 1951

Man Entering Apt. Building (uncredited)

★ 7.2
A Place in the Sun 1951

Servant at Eastman's Party (uncredited)

★ 7.3
Hollywood Story 1951

Café Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.6
On the Riviera 1951

Waiter at Party (uncredited)

★ 6
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man 1951

Fight Spectator (uncredited)

★ 6.3
Frenchie 1950

Townsman (uncredited)

★ 5.7
Let's Dance 1950

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.5
All About Eve 1950

Waiter at Margo's Party (uncredited)

★ 8.1
Shakedown 1950

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.1
The Men 1950

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7
Louisa 1950

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.1
Father of the Bride 1950

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7
The Damned Don't Cry 1950

Waiter at Party (uncredited)

★ 7.1
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town 1950

Waiter at Party (uncredited)

★ 6.1
Woman in Hiding 1950

Conventioneer (uncredited)

★ 6.2
Miss Grant Takes Richmond 1949

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.4
Alias the Champ 1949

Audience Spectator (uncredited)

★ 6
Once More, My Darling 1949

Waiter

★ 5.7
It's a Great Feeling 1949

Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.9
Special Agent 1949

Barber's Customer (uncredited)

★ NR
The Doolins of Oklahoma 1949

Bartender (uncredited)

★ 6.8
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff 1949

Room Service Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.5
Johnny Allegro 1949

★ 6.3
Flamingo Road 1949

★ 7
You Gotta Stay Happy 1948

Waiter (Uncredited)

★ 6.5
Sorry, Wrong Number 1948

Waiter at Wedding Reception (uncredited)

★ 6.7
Race Street 1948

Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

★ 5.8
Jungle Goddess 1948

Bartender (uncredited)

★ 2.6
I Walk Alone 1947

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.5
Daisy Kenyon 1947

Bartender at Stork Club (uncredited)

★ 6.7
Road to Rio 1947

Ship's Waiter

★ 6.7
Body and Soul 1947

Bartender (uncredited)

★ 6.7
The Unsuspected 1947

Servant with Tray (uncredited)

★ 6.7
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap 1947

Card Dealer (uncredited)

★ 6.2
Ivy 1947

Barrister (uncredited)

★ 6.8
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami 1947

★ 6.4
It Happened on Fifth Avenue 1947

Executive (uncredited)

★ 7
Undercover Maisie 1947

Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)

★ 8
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7.8
Undercurrent 1946

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.8
Nobody Lives Forever 1946

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.2
Angel on My Shoulder 1946

Court Spectator (uncredited)

★ 6.4
The Big Sleep 1946

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7.6
The Time of Their Lives 1946

Danbury Servant (uncredited)

★ 7
Canyon Passage 1946

Miner (uncredited)

★ 6.6
Two Sisters from Boston 1946

Recording Lab Assistant (uncredited)

★ 6
Dressed to Kill 1946

Detective at Murder Scene

★ 6.5
She-Wolf of London 1946

Constable (uncredited)

★ 5.6
Do You Love Me 1946

Waiter at Mindy's (uncredited)

★ 4.3
The Hoodlum Saint 1946

Waiter at Wedding Brunch (uncredited)

★ 5.2
The Tiger Woman 1945

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.5
Fallen Angel 1945

Bus Passenger (uncredited)

★ 6.5
Kitty 1945

Coach Footman (uncredited)

★ 5.5
Lady on a Train 1945

★ 6.6
The Naughty Nineties 1945

Troupe Member (uncredited)

★ 6.8
The Woman in Green 1945

Pembrook House Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Hollywood Scout 1945

Man with Chimpanzee (uncredited)

★ NR
The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945

Footman (uncredited)

★ 7.1
A Song to Remember 1945

Guest at Salon Concert (uncredited)

★ 6.3
The Climax 1944

Audience Member (Uncredited)

★ 5.4
In Society 1944

Party Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.8
The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1944

Servant Peeking in Keyhole (uncredited)

★ 6
The Spider Woman 1943

Doorman (uncredited)

★ 6.8
Government Girl 1943

Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

★ 5.2
Swing Shift Maisie 1943

Courtroom Spectator (Uncredited)

★ 6.5
So Proudly We Hail 1943

Troop Ship Survivor (Uncredited)

★ 5.5
Action in the North Atlantic 1943

Lieutenant-Commander at Meeting (uncredited)

★ 7.1
The Leopard Man 1943

Bartender (uncredited)

★ 6.5
No Time for Love 1943

★ 6.6
Margin for Error 1943

Waiter

★ 5.7
Tomorrow We Live 1942

★ 4.3
Maisie Gets Her Man 1942

Detective Taking in Hixby (Uncredited)

★ 6.5
The Falcon Takes Over 1942

Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)

★ 6
Take a Letter, Darling 1942

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Brooklyn Orchid 1942

Waiter at Party

★ 6
Lady for a Night 1942

King's Club Worker (uncredited)

★ 5.2
Ball of Fire 1941

Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)

★ 7.4
Keep 'Em Flying 1941

Waiter at Manila Club (uncredited)

★ 5.9
Niagara Falls 1941

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.8
The Blonde from Singapore 1941

★ 5
The Feminine Touch 1941

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.1
It Started with Eve 1941

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7.1
Citizen Kane 1941

Secretary (uncredited)

★ 8
Pot o' Gold 1941

Country Club Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.5
Topper Returns 1941

Second Butler (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Love Thy Neighbor 1940

Nightclub Waiter

★ 6.5
One Night in the Tropics 1940

Joe, Club Roscoe Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.6
Mexican Spitfire Out West 1940

Waiter

★ 4.6
Hit Parade of 1941 1940

Waiter

★ 5.5
City for Conquest 1940

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.8
No Time for Comedy 1940

Waiter in Bar (uncredited)

★ 5.4
Hired Wife 1940

Waiter

★ 6.8
Captain Caution 1940

English Sailor Who Pleads for Water

★ 5.6
Buck Benny Rides Again 1940

Waiter

★ NR
Turnabout 1940

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6
Edison, the Man 1940

Waiter

★ 6.6
Forty Little Mothers 1940

Waiter

★ 6.2
Curtain Call 1940

Waiter Bringing Caviar

★ 7.3
Rebecca 1940

Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7.9
The Showdown 1940

Bald Bartender

★ 6
A Chump at Oxford 1940

Man in Unemployment Office (uncredited)

★ 6.9
City of Chance 1940

Waiter

★ 5.2
The Earl of Chicago 1940

Turnkey (uncredited)

★ 5.6
Remember? 1939

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.8
Zorro's Fighting Legion 1939

Legionnaire

★ 5.2
That's Right – You're Wrong 1939

Lawn Party Waiter (Uncredited)

★ 5.7
Eternally Yours 1939

Nightclub Waiter

★ 5.7
Honeymoon in Bali 1939

Doorman (uncredited)

★ 6.2
Girl from Rio 1939

Condor Club Headwaiter

★ 2.8
The Man in the Iron Mask 1939

Servant

★ 7
Stronger Than Desire 1939

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.8
The Gracie Allen Murder Case 1939

Nightclub Waiter

★ 5.5
The Rage of Paris 1938

Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)

★ 6.1
Test Pilot 1938

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.5
In Old Chicago 1938

Senate Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Gold Is Where You Find It 1938

Butler at Party (uncredited)

★ 6.9
The Big Broadcast of 1938 1938

Reporter (uncredited)

★ 6.1
Wells Fargo 1937

Headwaiter

★ 5.2
The Firefly 1937

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Dance Charlie Dance 1937

Bored Spectator (uncredited)

★ 6
North of the Rio Grande 1937

Bald Saloon Waiter

★ 6
Sinner Take All 1936

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

★ 4.8
Sing, Baby, Sing 1936

Nightclub Waiter

★ 5.7
San Francisco 1936

Waiter at Chicken's Ball (uncredited)

★ 6.6
Special Investigator 1936

Nightclub Waiter

★ 5.8
Champagne Charlie 1936

Extra as Ship Waiter

★ 4.8
The Country Doctor 1936

Waiter in Restaurant (uncredited)

★ 6
The Walking Dead 1936

Juror (uncredited)

★ 6.2
To Beat the Band 1935

Waiter

★ NR
A Night at the Opera 1935

Stagehand (uncredited)

★ 7.4
The Old Homestead 1935

Waiter (uncredited)

★ NR
His Family Tree 1935

Man at Mayoral Debate

★ 4.5
The Gay Deception 1935

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Diamond Jim 1935

Waiter

★ 6
The Arizonian 1935

Waiter in Opera House

★ NR
Vagabond Lady 1935

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7.2
The Misses Stooge 1935

The Butler (uncredited)

★ NR
Go Into Your Dance 1935

Casino de Paree Waiter

★ 6.8
Shadow of Doubt 1935

Waiter

★ 6.2
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back 1934

Banquet Servant

★ 5.3
Bachelor Bait 1934

Waiter #2 (uncredited)

★ 5.7
Hollywood Mystery 1934

Tony's Butler

★ 3.5
The Thin Man 1934

Bartender (uncredited)

★ 7.5
Long Lost Father 1934

Waiter Getting Carl to Telephone

★ 5.7
Big Time Or Bust 1933

Hammond's Butler (uncredited)

★ 3.5
Only Yesterday 1933

Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)

★ 6.8
Midnight Mary 1933

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.9
Ex-Lady 1933

Butler (uncredited)

★ 6.3
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum 1933

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7.4
The Half-Naked Truth 1932

Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.2
Faithless 1932

Croupier

★ 6.8
Movie Crazy 1932

Waiter (Uncredited)

★ 6.2
Pack Up Your Troubles 1932

Butler (uncredited)

★ 6.7
Red-Headed Woman 1932

Waiter at Gaerste Party (uncredited)

★ 6.7
Merrily We Go to Hell 1932

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Scarface 1932

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7.4
The Wet Parade 1932

Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.8
Emma 1932

Man (uncredited)

★ 6.4
Forgotten Women 1931

Sleek's Butler

★ NR
The Guilty Generation 1931

Victor - Mike's Butler

★ 6
The Road to Reno 1931

Waiter

★ 4
Monkey Business 1931

Waiter

★ 7
The Phantom of Paris 1931

Chéri-Bibi's Valet (uncredited)

★ 5.9
Five and Ten 1931

Duncan (uncredited)

★ 6.2
Smart Money 1931

Nick's Chauffeur Bill (uncredited)

★ 6.9
Daybreak 1931

Bartender

★ 4
Ladies' Man 1931

Elevator starter

★ 4.3
Men Call It Love 1931

Brooks' Butler (uncredited)

★ 4.5
Reaching for the Moon 1930

Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)

★ 5.8
New Moon 1930

Waiter at Ball

★ 4.3
Sin Takes a Holiday 1930

Waiter at Royal Club (uncredited)

★ 5.8
Playboy of Paris 1930

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

★ 7
Anybody's Woman 1930

Butler

★ 5.9
Let Us Be Gay 1930

Struthers - 2nd Butler (as William O'Brien)

★ 4
Strictly Unconventional 1930

Footman

★ 3.5
Children of Pleasure 1930

Party Butler #2 (uncredited)

★ 4.7
Anna Christie 1930

Waiter at Coney Island (uncredited)

★ 6
Street of Chance 1930

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.6
The Trespasser 1929

Butler (uncredited)

★ 6.6
A Woman of Affairs 1928

Man Peering Into Room (uncredited)

★ 6.7
The Racket 1928

Detective Frisking Nick

★ 6.6
Captain Swagger 1928

Waiter

★ NR
The Singing Fool 1928

Waiter at Blackie Joe's (uncredited)

★ 5
The Mysterious Lady 1928

Cafe Waiter Serving Wine (uncredited)

★ 7.4
The Patsy 1928

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.8
While the City Sleeps 1928

Apartment Tenant

★ 5.9
The Mad Whirl 1925

★ 6.2
The Blot 1921

College Student (uncredited)

★ 6.4
The Delicious Little Devil 1919

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.6