Eugene O'Brien

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Eugene O'Brien (Birthname: Louis O'Brien b. November 14,

1880 in Boulder, Colorado - d. April 29, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) was a

silent film star and stage actor.

He studied medicine at the University of Colorado at Boulder

but was keener on the stage than becoming a doctor. O'Brien switched to civil

engineering under his family's guidance, but his heart was still set on

becoming an actor. He moved to New York City and was "discovered" by

theatrical impresario Charles Frohman who signed O'Brien to a three-year

contract and put him in The Builder of Bridges, which opened on Broadway at the

Hudson Theatre on October 26, 1909.

O'Brien made his name playing opposite Ethel Barrymore, in a

revival of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play Trelawny of the 'Wells', which opened

at the Empire Theatre on New Year's Day, 1911.

O'Brien's first film, Essanay Film's The Lieutenant

Governor, in which he had the starring role, played in Boulder's Curran Theatre

in February 1915, giving his family its first opportunity to see him act.[3][4]

World Film Corp. chief executive Lewis J. Selznick made O'Brien a screen star,

putting him in an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. Subsequently he

was leading man opposite some of the leading female stars of the day, including

Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge and Gloria Swanson and became a silent screen

matinée idol.

He retired from acting when the talkies came in, making his

last film, Faithless Lover, in 1928 at 47 years old.

For his work on movies, he received a "Star" on

the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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