o ' malley of the mounted ( 1936 film )
sergeant o' malley of the royal canadian mounted police insinuates himself into a gang of outlaws in order to detect and capture a wanted murderer. he finds the killer, but falls in love with the man' s sister. in the meantime, one of the outlaws uncovers o' malley' s true identity .
sergeant o' malley of the royal canadian mounted police insinuates himself into a gang of outlaws in order to detect and capture a wanted murderer. he finds the killer, but falls in love... see full summary »
o' malley pretends to be an outlaw in order to join a gang terrorizing towns along the american border .
o' brien' s next batch of films were produced by sol lesser, with fox doing the releasing, and these were westerns alternating with the occasional drama or adventure movie - - - the dude ranger, when a man' s a man, the cowboy millionaire, thunder mountain, hard rock harrigan, whispering smith speaks and o' malley of the mounted. the border patrolman in 1936 marked the end of o' brien' s work for lesser .
o' brien wore buckskins and carried a flintlock in daniel boone (george hirliman / rko, 1936), the first of his four films for producer george hirliman .
. with the onset of the korean war, o' brien again returned to active duty. he acted in only one more film, the john ford western
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o' brien then connected with producer george hirliman for a quartet of films, the first of which was the 1936 daniel boone, followed in 1937 with park avenue logger, hollywood cowboy, and the non - western windjammer. hirliman then sold o' brien' s contract, and his subsequent films were made directly by rko .
the western idea of lawlessness set in american towns was not a part of the canadian northern, though individual lawbreakers or uprisings by canadians (quebec), riel, and northwest mounted police. first nation tribes or métis featured in some depictions .
director john ford gave george o' brien his first starring role in the western the iron horse. this film originally had a running time of 150 minutes, very long for a 1920s western
by 1928, elements of sound were being grafted onto movies originally filmed as silents, in a rush to get on the
talkie
bandwagon. o' brien' s first all - sound film was
in 1934, o' brien starred in frontier marshal, one of the many re - tellings of the wyatt earp story as novelized by stuart n. lake. it was also his last film made directly by fox, which was in some financial hot water .
. the genre was extremely popular in the inter - war years of the twentieth century .
ray whitley, one of o' brien' s co - stars at rko, once said at a film convention that he and o' brien came to a friendly parting of the ways over whitley' s musical interludes. he said o' brien told him he thought people came to his movies expecting action, and he intended to give it to them, so the musical numbers would be out .
the renegade ranger (rko, 1938) included ray whitley, a young tim holt in an early film role, and a young rita hayworth as the female lead .
( 1929), which was not a great success upon release. not knowing what to do with the popular actor, fox executives eventually threw o' brien in a series of lower - budget westerns. o' brien' s early westerns were highly successful for the studio, and o' brien became perhaps the most popular western star at that time. in 1936, he left 20th century - fox for an offer from rko, where he made 20 pictures at the studio in four years .
in addition to being set in canada the stories often contrast the american old west with the canadian one in several ways. in films such as pony soldier and saskatchewan the north - west mounted police display reason, compassion and a sense of fair play in their dealings with indigenous peoples of the americas as opposed to hotheaded american visitors (often criminals), lawmen or the american army who seem to prefer extermination with violence .
this film' s earliest documented telecast took place in new york city saturday 11 february 1950 on the dumont television network' s wabd (channel 5) .
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. ford was impressed by the natural acting ability of his new star and convinced fox executives to put him under contract. throughout the latter days of silent films, o' brien had great success as a leading man and starred in some of the best films of the era. standing 5' 11
, he was nicknamed
the chest
in the 1920s for his strong, muscular build .
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his marriage to marguerite churchill was a casualty of his military duty, and they divorced in 1948. churchill and o' brien appeared together in one film, riders of the purple sage (fox, 1931). they had married in 1933 and had three children. daughter orin is a world - renowned bassist with the new york philharmonic and you can find more on her in the links section. son darcy was a professor of english at the university of tulsa from 1978 - 1996. he also was a best - selling author and his books include
above - george o' brien vs. victor mclaglen in a lobby card from the john ford directed the fighting heart (fox, 1925). this was one of about a dozen john ford films in which o' brien worked (that number includes several military documentaries in which o' brien did the narration) .
with the onset of world war ii, at the age of 41 o' brien decided to leave his acting career behind and re - enlist in the navy. returning to films after the war, however, roles for george o' brien had evaporated. he made a few more films between 1947 and 1951, and even became a panelist on the tv series
), retiring to a ranch in oklahoma afterward. following a stroke and several years of poor health, o' brien passed away on september 4, 1985, at the age of 86. he was survived by his son, writer darcy o' brien (1939 - 1998), and his daughter, bassist orin o' brien .
. they had two children - - bassist orin o' brien and writer darcy o' brien - - before divorcing in 1948 .
left: as japheth in michael curtiz' s warner bros. epic noah' s ark. right: with co - star dolores costello. with a budget in excess of a million dollars, this was one of the most expensive films ever made, until the 1930s. originally shot as a silent film, some sound sequences were inserted before its release
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scene from sunrise with janet gaynor. o' brien portrays a young farmer who contemplates murdering his wife (gaynor) at the urging of another woman. o' brien was teamed with gaynor in two other films: the blue eagle (1926) and the johnstown flood (1926 )
polls were conducted from about the mid 1930s through the mid 1950s. with a few exceptions, the annual results would list the' top ten' (or' top five') cowboy film stars. in most cases, the winners were what you would expect - - - autry, rogers, holt, starrett, hoppy, etc. george o' brien was also a popular cowboy movie hero .
lash larue said he patterned his original black outfit, in the eddie dean outing, song of old wyoming, on that of george o' brien, whose movies he admired. larue wears a white bandana with the dark outfit, as o' brien frequently did; in his future outings, he would wear a black bandana but the likeness to o' brien' s' uniform' is easily seen in that first western with larue .
on the left are leading lady marguerite churchill (1910 - 2000) and john wayne in a publicity pose from raoul walsh' s epic the big trail (fox, 1930), wayne' s first starring film. churchill and o' brien met during the filming of riders of the purple sage (fox, 1931) and they were married from 1933 - 1948. in a july, 1948 newspaper article about their divorce, churchill is quoted as saying
that his war experiences had changed her husband radically ...
and the article also notes that
the actress won custody of their two children, and got half the community property ...
ray whitley became o' brien' s singing sidekick starting in 1938 with gun law, border g - man, the painted desert (the last two with laraine day as the leading lady), and the renegade ranger in which tim holt joined whitley in support of o' brien. but both sidekicks were absent in lawless valley, which completed the year .
after that, the westerns began outnumbering the dramas, comedies and adventure movies: riders of the purple sage (1931) and, in 1932, the rainbow trail, the gay caballero, mystery ranch and the golden west. the following year brought robbers' roost, smoke lightning, life in the raw and the last trail .
in timber stampede, robert fiske plays a hired gunman sporting a brace of stag - handled pistols and, in marshal of mesa city, brandon starts out as a hired gunman with a brace of pearl - handled pistols. but o' brien stuck to the single plain pistol, worn with the holster tilted slightly forward in the style john wayne would popularize in later movies like rio bravo .
george o' brien passed away on september 4, 1985, in the franciscan villa, broken arrow, oklahoma. he had been a resident of the nursing home since a stroke left him partially paralyzed in 1979 .
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tim holt was also one of o' brien' s co - stars, in fact having the title role in the renegade ranger (which also starred a young rita hayworth). holt went on to succeed o' brien in rko' s westerns and become that studio' s last western series star .
chaplin' s decision to have the gold rush take place during the 1897– 8 klondike gold rush placed it squarely within the well established northern genre, which spanned theatre, literature and film, encompassing stories about trappers, adventurers, lumberjacks, miners, mounties, eskimos, and others - even animals - in the far north
. matthew solomon, the gold rush, palgrave macmillan, 2015. isbn 1137516119
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go to the in search of... page on the old corral and check the social security death index (ssdi). there you will find a record for: george o' brien, issued in california, born april 19, 1899 and passed away september, 1985 in oklahoma .
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above center are george o' brien and janet chandler with chief john big tree on the left and bill hazlet / chief many treaties on the right in a scene from the golden west (fox, 1932) .
left: o' brien with johnny weissmuller in the early 1930s. center a: 1920s pose. center b and c: 1930s poses. center d and right: daring fox studio shots to promote o' brien' s 1926 comedy fig leaves
jagger and his gang hang out in canada but make their raids across the border. to get into the gang o' mally poses as an outlaw and breaks gang member hyland and himself out of jail. this gets him into jagger' s gang where his plan is to get jagger and his men to raid a canadian bank where they can be arrested by the awaiting mounties .
o' brien had a supporting role in the warner bros. musical my wild irish rose. also pictured are arlene dahl, alan hale, sara allgood, and george tobias
a mountie poses as a bandit to round up the gang who have been terrorising the region .
. darcy passed away in march, 1998, and more info on him is in the links section on a subsequent webpage. the o' brien' s first child was a son, but the infant contracted pneumonia and passed away in june, 1934 when he was ten days old .
legion of the lawless ushered in 1940, followed by bullet code, prairie law, stage to chino and triple justice, all with virginia vale and without sidekicks, singing or otherwise. that ended the o' brien series at rko because, by then, he (soon to be joined by his successor, tim holt) was back in the service for world war ii. the studio had to issue a news release to explain to irate fans where their hero had gone .
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in leo miller' s book, the great cowboy stars (1979, arlington house publishers), o' brien said he does not think much of the westerns being made at that time, the anti - hero spaghetti westerns, for example. asked about his favorite western actors for that time, he named john wayne for movies, and james arness and richard boone for television. quite a few fans would list him as a favorite as well .
o' brien served in the navy through early 1946, initially in a recruit training command and later, as a
beachmaster
involved in a dozen or more island invasions. he stayed in the naval reserve and was back on active duty during korea and vietnam .
western movie star george o' brien (1899 - 1985) started out and ended up working for director john ford, with a long detour for movie series at fox and rko plus one strange little outing with none other than the three stooges. his rko image was often as the husky, dark - clad cowboy with his hat tilted rackishly to one side, riding a horse named mike, and with a ready grin, even in the face of adversity. one example comes in marshal of mesa city, when he gets the drop on some would - be stagecoach robbers and makes them unmask their faces :
i don' t blame you for keeping them covered
, he chuckles .
born april 19, 1899, in san francisco, o' brien was the son of a policeman and future police chief. a natural athlete, he learned horseback riding early and played football, baseball, track and swimming while attending polytechnic high school and santa clara college. during his navy service in world war i, he won the light - heavyweight pacific fleet boxing title. no wonder he won all those on - screen fights .
o' brien emerged from the war with five decorations for bravery under fire, as a stretcher - bearer. he returned to college but found himself more interested in visiting the nearby fox studio where he struck up an acquaintance with charles gebhart, later better known as buck jones, who helped him get a job there .
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o' brien became an assistant cameraman on some tom mix movies (at $ 15 a week) and was soon doing stunt work at fox. after supporting roles in various silents, he was tested by john ford for an epic western, the iron horse (1924) and got the role. he also got a ten - year fox contract .
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in between his naval stints, he made four more movies: my wild irish rose (1947), starring dennis morgan and arlene dahl; two john wayne / john ford classics, fort apache (1948) and she wore a yellow ribbon (1949), and the 1951 western - comedy, gold raiders, co - starring the three stooges. in that movie, it appeared that o' brien was transported back in time to 1940 when his rko series ended; he still handled the action well .
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more than twenty starring roles at fox quickly followed, but in dramas rather than westerns, until 1926 when he was reunited with ford in three bad men. other non - westerns followed, including the acclaimed drama sunrise (1927), directed by f. w. murnau, which landed an oscar for camera work. it was 1930 when he got back to such westerns as the lone star ranger and last of the duanes, based on zane grey books, and, in 1931, fair warning and a holy terror, based on max brand stories .
his last appearance on the big screen came in another john ford star - studded epic, cheyenne autumn (1964) .
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o'malley of the mounted is a 1936 american western film directed by david howard and written by frank howard clark and daniel jarrett . the film stars george o'brien , irene ware , stanley fields , james bush , victor potel and reginald barlow . the film was released on march 27 , 1936 , by 20th century fox . 
o'malley of the mounted is a 1936 american western film directed by david howard and written by frank howard clark and daniel jarrett. the film stars george o'brien, irene ware, stanley fields, james bush, victor potel and reginald barlow. the film was released on march 27, 1936, by 20th century fox.
o'malley of the mounted is a 1936 american western film directed by david howard and written by frank howard clark and daniel jarrett. the film stars george o'brien, irene ware, stanley fields, james bush, victor potel and reginald barlow. the film was released on march 27, 1936, by 20th century fox.