Henry O'Neill
Acting
Biography
Henry O'Neill (1891–1961) was an American film actor known for playing gray-haired fathers, lawyers, and similarly roles during the 1930s and 1940s. 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, Santa Fe Trail, Anchors Aweigh, The Green Years, and The Reckless Moment. His last film was The Wings of Eagles. Henry O'Neill died in 1961 at the age of 69.
Born: August 9, 1891
Place of Birth: Orange, New Jersey, USA
Known For
Dark Shadows
A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.
Rainbow on the River
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
The Milkman
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
Lost Angel
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
Oil for the Lamps of China
An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural lands of China.
The White Angel
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader.
Air Raid Wardens
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
Jezebel
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Shadow of the Thin Man
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Filmography
as Capt. Spear
as Squire O'Neill
as Joe D. Habersham
as Morgan Caldwell
as Charlie Barnes
as Donald Muir
as Judge Keating
as Thomas A. Scott
as Bradley, Sr.
as Detective Dorn
as Ben Sheppard
as Mr. Harkness
as Mr. Crowley
as Tom Harper
as Timothy Hearne
as Prof. Adams
as Judge Ben Hobbs
as Dudley
as President Hotchkiss
as Chaplain
as Gen. Thomas F. Farrell
as Prof. Horace Appleby
as Canon Roche
as Gov. Winton
as Mr. Taylor
as Lewis J. Malbery
as Admiral Hammond
as Duffy
as Maj. Gen. Lee Rand
as Larry Goff - Theatrical Agent (uncredited)
as Lt. Cmdr. Roger Graystone
as Dr. Everett Colner
as Mr. Hawkley
as Colonel Watrous
as John Dyckman Brown II
as Vance Clark
as Senator Edward White
as Professor Stowe
as Col. Sykes
as Professor Josh Pringle
as Inspector Holcomb
as Mr. Danny Churchill, Sr.
as Maj. Roger W. Reeber
as Captain in Frank Morgan Skit (uncredited)
as Captain Chaplain
as Warden Kenneson
as Rittenhause
as Charles Steed
as Cmdr. Stone M.C
as The Reverend Dr. Roberts
as Father Ramon
as Arthur Freeman
as Frank Eastman
as Lt. Col. Harry Seton
as Mr. Verne
as Major Jason I. Sculley
as Daniel Wells
as Judge
as Philip Post
as Col. Halliday
as Warden Alcott
as Tim Ward
as Mr. Maitland
as Galway
as Cyrus Brody
as Doctor
as Colonel Nelson
as Mr. Mason
as District Attorney (uncredited)
as Dr. Cameron
as Dr. Lentz
as District Attorney
as Markham
as Colonel
as Parole Officer Masters
as Dr. Clinton Forrest, Sr.
as Dr. Lee
as A.H. Remson
as Thomas 'Tom' Leslie
as General Miguel Miramon
as Matthew Carter
as Member of Continental Congress
as Attorney Kellogg
as Calvin Jordan
as Colonel Dodge
as Prologue Speaker
as Sen. H. Baldwin
as Colonel Ramm
as Judge
as Mr. Calhoun
as Judge
as Governor
as Sam Trimble
as Gorgas
as General Theopholus Bogardus
as Judge
as Henry Wells
as George Mason
as Admiral Thomas
as Colonel Picquart
as D.M. Gateway
as Captain Skinner
as Commander Tisdale
as Dr. Thomas Haslett
as Arthur Sheldon
as Dr. Endicott
as Defense Attorney
as Father Josef
as Father Xavier
as Jim Carstairs
as Dr. Scott
as Charlie Caldwell
as Ward Bryant
as Mr. Appleby
as George Winston
as Mr. Agnew
as District Attorney Werner
as Dr. Emile Roux
as President Simpkins
as Mr. Wilton Palmer
as Greer
as District Attorney C. Manchester
as District Attorney Roger Quinn
as Stephen Dinsmore
as J.C. Anderson
as Mr. Tuthill
as Edward Hartford
as John W. Hendricks
as Col. Barnes
as Henry Dow
as Victor Ballau
as Elihu Dimuck
as Harold Thornton
as Mr. Claude Harvey
as Louis Trumble
as Director (uncredited)
as Attorney J.L. Chase (uncredited)
as Fernand de Marnay
as Jim Lansdale
as John Brownell
as Gen. John "Jack" Brent Fitts
as Mr. Harper
as Duc de Choiseul
as Goodrich Sr.
as George Richards
as Inspector Crane
as Ardsley
as Dan
as Tommy Doran
as Stephens
as Oren Porter
as Lemuel Tappan
as Banker Making Toast
as Richard
as Doctor
as Edgar V. Ingersoll
as Mr. John P. Schuyler
as Duryea
as Dr. William Chester
as J.R. Dickinson
as Mr. Sheffner
as Baxter - the Laywer (uncredited)
as Ramick
as Naval Officer
as Orin Nordholm Sr.
as Inspector Donnelly
as Dubois (uncredited)
as Mr. Farrell