ROBERT EMMETT O'CONNOR BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Robert Emmett O'Connor was born on March 18th, 1885 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His career in entertainment began as a circus performer and later also in vaudeville. In 1905, he debuted on Broadway in a production of, "Fritz in Tammany Hall" followed by a couple other musical stage performances up through the 1930's.
O'Connor then chose to turn his career towards working in films and never looked back on his stage career. Some of his early film roles included appearances on the short films, "Pay Your Dues" (1919) starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard and Bebe Daniels, "Pinning It On" (1921) with Eddie Boland and Ethel Broadhurst, "Oh, Promise Me" (1921) with Eddie Boland and Ethel Broadhurst, "Prince Pistachio" (1921) starring Eddie Boland, Ethel Broadhurst and Harold Adkins and "Paint and Powder" (1921) co-starring Eddie Boland, Ethel Broadhurst, Harold Adkins and Bruce Gordon.
As his career progressed, he would appear in over two hundred film and television roles. Some of his more well known film roles have included, "Tin Gods" (1926) starring Thomas Meighan, William Powell, Joe King, Renee Adoree and Ailene Pringle, "The Public Enemy" (1931) starring James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Beryl Mercer, Donald Cook and Mae Clarke, "Blonde Venus" (1932) starring Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Gene Morgan, Dickie Moore, Clarence Muse, Sidney Toler, Hattie McDaniel, Sterling Holloway, Morgan Wallace, Dennis O'Keefe, Herbert Marshall and Kent Taylor, "Mystery of the Wax Museum" (1933) Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Claude King, Holmes Herbert, Edwin Maxwell and Frank McHugh, "A Night at the Opera" (1935) starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, Purnell Pratt and Walter Woolf King, "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (1936) starring Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Dolores Costello, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Constance Collier, Una O'Connor and C. Aubrey Smith, "No Time for Comedy" (1940) starring James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin, Lawrence Grossmith and Charlie Ruggles, and his final film role in, "Sunset Blvd." (1950) starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, H. B. Warner, Buster Keaton, Hedda Hopper and Jack Webb.
Many of his film appearances were un-credited roles, however he still maintained a presence as a working actor. He also appeared on the television shows, "The Loretta Young Show" and "Annie Oakley".
Robert Emmett O'Connor married only once briefly to a lady named Madeline and after the marriage ended in divorce he did not re-marry nor did he have any children. He passed away at the age of seventy seven on September 4th, 1962 in Hollywood, California after suffering burns from a fire.
Filmography
1958 Man Without a Gun
1954 Annie Oakley
1954 The Loretta Young Show
1950 Watch the Birdie
1950 Sunset Blvd.
1948 Easter Parade
1948 B.F.'s Daughter
1948 The Bride Goes Wild
1948 Tenth Avenue Angel
1948 Alias a Gentleman
1947 High Wall
1947 Merton of the Movies
1947 The Unfinished Dance
1947 The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947 The Hucksters
1947 Living in a Big Way
1947 High Barbaree
1947 Honeymoon
1947 A Crime Does Not Pay Subject: The Luckiest Guy in the World
1947 The Mighty McGurk
1946 The Show-Off
1946 Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 Undercurrent
1946 Three Wise Fools
1946 Courage of Lassie
1946 Boys' Ranch
1946 Cuban Pete
1946 The Hoodlum Saint
1946 A Letter for Evie
1946 Up Goes Maisie
1946 The Harvey Girls
1945 Adventure
1945 They Were Expendable
1945 The Great American Mug
1945 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945 A Gun in His Hand
1945 Anchors Aweigh
1945 The Clock
1945 Main Street After Dark
1945 The Thin Man Goes Home
1944 Gentle Annie
1944 Music for Millions
1944 Nothing But Trouble
1944 Meet Me in St. Louis
1944 Return from Nowhere
1944 An American Romance
1944 Barbary Coast Gent
1944 Meet the People
1944 Easy Life
1944 Rationing
1944 Broadway Rhythm
1943 Whistling in Brooklyn
1943 Shoe Shine Boy
1943 Lost Angel
1943 Little Miss Pinkerton
1943 Swing Shift Maisie
1943 Young Ideas
1943 Best Foot Forward
1943 Who Killed Who?
1943 Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943 Air Raid Wardens
1943 Slightly Dangerous
1943 Harrigan's Kid
1943 The Human Comedy
1943 Brief Interval
1942 Tennessee Johnson
1942 Andy Hardy's Double Life
1942 Mighty Lak a Goat
1942 The Omaha Trail
1942 Tish
1942 The Greatest Gift
1942 Pierre of the Plains
1942 Jackass Mail
1942 Maisie Gets Her Man
1942 Inflation
1941 Fiesta
1941 Tight Shoes
1940 No Time for Comedy
1940 Dance, Girl, Dance
1940 A Fugitive from Justice
1940 Hot Steel
1940 I Take This Oath
1940 Road to Singapore
1940 Double Alibi
1940 The Lone Wolf Strikes
1939 Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1939 Streets of New York
1939 You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939 Sergeant Madden
1939 Made for Each Other
1938 Professor Beware
1937 Wells Fargo
1937 Boy of the Streets
1937 Trapped by G-Men
1937 Big City
1937 Super-Sleuth
1937 New Faces of 1937
1937 Riding on Air
1937 The Last Train from Madrid
1937 The Frame-Up
1937 A Star Is Born
1937 Waikiki Wedding
1937 Park Avenue Logger
1937 Her Husband Lies
1937 The Crime Nobody Saw
1937 When You're in Love
1937 Girl Overboard
1937 We Who Are About to Die
1936 Sing Me a Love Song
1936 Sinner Take All
1936 Kelly the Second
1936 Jailbreak
1936 At Sea Ashore
1936 Desire
1936 Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936 It Had to Happen
1935 The Lone Wolf Returns
1935 White Lies
1935 Coronado
1935 A Night at the Opera
1935 Waterfront Lady
1935 Diamond Jim
1935 Let 'em Have It
1935 Stolen Harmony
1935 Star of Midnight
1935 Princess O'Hara
1935 The Whole Town's Talking
1934 The Mysterious Mr. Wong
1934 A Wicked Woman
1934 Return of the Terror
1934 Bottoms Up
1934 The Big Shakedown
1933 Secret Sinners
1933 Penthouse
1933 Lady for a Day
1933 Enemies of Society
1933 Don't Bet on Love
1933 Midnight Mary
1933 Bed of Roses
1933 Picture Snatcher
1933 Gabriel Over the White House
1933 Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933 The Great Jasper
1932 Frisco Jenny
1932 The Kid from Spain
1932 Blonde Venus
1932 Blessed Event
1932 American Madness
1932 The Dark Horse
1932 Week-End Marriage
1932 Night World
1932 Arm of the Law
1932 Play-Girl
1932 The Big Timer
1932 The Beast of the City
1932 The Final Edition
1932 Taxi!
1932 Two Kinds of Women
1931 Ladies of the Big House
1931 Reckless Living
1931 Fanny Foley Herself
1931 The Public Defender
1931 Three Who Loved
1931 Up for Murder
1931 The Public Enemy
1931 Three Girls Lost
1931 The Single Sin
1930 Paid
1930 Man to Man
1930 Noche de duendes
1930 Up the River
1930 Shooting Straight
1930 Our Blushing Brides
1930 The Big House
1930 The Big Fight
1930 Alias French Gertie
1930 Framed
1930 In the Next Room
1930 Tiembla y Titubea
1930 Ladrones
1929 The Isle of Lost Ships
1929 Smiling Irish Eyes
1929 Crazy Doings
1929 The Office Scandal
1929 Post Mortem
1929 Weary River
1928 The Booster
1928 Freedom of the Press
1928 The Singing Fool
1928 Four Walls
1928 Dressed to Kill
1928 The Noose
1927 The Love of Sunya
1926 Fire!!
1926 Tin Gods
1922 The Late Lamented
1921 Late Hours
1921 Never Weaken
1921 Sweet By and By
1921 The Chink
1921 On Their Way
1921 A Straight Crook
1921 Hurry West
1921 Hobgoblins
1921 The Love Lesson
1921 Running Wild
1921 Paint and Powder
1921 Prince Pistachio
1921 Oh, Promise Me
1921 Pinning It On
1921 The Burglars Bold
1920 The Sleepyhead
1920 Greek Meets Greek
1920 Drink Hearty
1920 His Royal Slyness
1919 Pay Your Dues
