Comedias de William H. O'Brien
Películas de William H. O'Brien filtradas por género
🎭 Portobello Road Passerby (uncredited)
7
1971
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch. ...
🎭 Old Chess Player (uncredited)
6.5
1971
Látigo Smith (Garner), una mezcla de gigoló y timador, baja del tren en un pueblo llamado Purgatorio para huir de un matrimonio no deseado y, además, con el propósito de borrar un tatuaje que ...
🎭 Hotel Lobby Extra (uncredited)
5
1969
Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America. ...
🎭 Hotel Guest (uncredited)
7.7
1967
Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) vuelve a casa después de terminar sus estudios universitarios. Es un joven que alberga un gran rencor contra la hipocresía y la corrupción de la sociedad que ...
🎭 Waiter at Officer's Ball (uncredited)
6
1966
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a ...
🎭 Man at Customs (uncredited)
6.4
1966
Herman discovers he's the new lord of Munster Hall in England. The family sails to Britain, where they receive a tepid welcome from Lady Effigy and Freddie Munster, who throws tantrums because he ...
🎭 Gentleman in Bank (uncredited)
7.6
1964
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness. ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.2
1963
Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who trie ...
🎭 Audience Member (uncredited)
6.2
1962
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter ...
🎭 Waiter at Burlesque Club (uncredited)
6.4
1960
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night. ...
🎭 Passenger Exiting Elevator (uncredited)
6.2
1960
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
7.1
1959
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan u ...
🎭 Townsman (uncredited)
5.6
1957
The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to ...
🎭 Party Guest (uncredited)
6.5
1957
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous. ...
🎭 Extra (uncredited)
6.6
1956
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days. ...
🎭 Waiter
5.9
1956
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the gi ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
7.1
1955
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories ...
🎭 Townsman (uncredited)
6.1
1955
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy. ...
🎭 Man at Train Station (uncredited)
7.1
1955
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they so ...
🎭 Movie Patron (uncredited)
6.2
1955
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identit ...
🎭 Bartender (uncredited)
7.5
1954
La joven Sabrina, hija del chofer británico de los poderosos Larrabee, está enamorada del hijo menor de la familia, que coquetea con ella por puro entretenimiento. El padre la envía a Paris, d ...
🎭 Ship Passenger (uncredited)
7.3
1953
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When ...
🎭 Bartender Joe
6
1953
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to brin ...
🎭 Fight Spectator (uncredited)
6.4
1951
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man. ...
🎭 Second Butler (uncredited)
6.3
1950
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, h ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
7
1950
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters ...
🎭 Waiter at Party (uncredited)
6.1
1950
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one o ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
5.4
1949
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal ...
🎭 Audience Spectator (uncredited)
6
1949
Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George (in his only film appearance) is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name is his manager Lorraine and cop Ron Peterson, who ...
🎭 Waiter
5.7
1949
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air ...
🎭 Room Service Waiter (uncredited)
6.5
1949
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses ...
🎭 Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
5.9
1949
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her. ...
🎭 Waiter (Uncredited)
6.4
1948
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who ...
🎭 Ship's Waiter
6.8
1947
Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potent ...
🎭 Card Dealer (uncredited)
6.3
1947
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are ...
🎭 Executive (uncredited)
7.1
1947
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners. ...
🎭 Court Spectator (uncredited)
6.3
1946
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life. ...
🎭 Danbury Servant (uncredited)
6.9
1946
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence. ...
🎭 Recording Lab Assistant (uncredited)
5.8
1946
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her siste ...
6.6
1945
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a po ...
🎭 Troupe Member (uncredited)
6.8
1945
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekic ...
🎭 Man with Chimpanzee (uncredited)
0
1945
This short film focuses on a day in the life of a Hollywood talent scout assigned to cast animals. ...
🎭 Party Waiter (uncredited)
5.8
1944
Eddie Harrington y Albert Mansfield son dos fontaneros que reciben una llamada para reparar una fuga de agua en el cuarto de baño privado del hogar del señor Van Cleve, un rico hombre de negoci ...
🎭 Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
5.2
1943
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort. ...
🎭 Courtroom Spectator (Uncredited)
6.5
1943
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and gettin ...
🎭 Waiter
5.7
1943
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge ...
🎭 Detective Taking in Hixby (Uncredited)
7
1942
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innoc ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.5
1942
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love. ...
🎭 Waiter at Party
0
1942
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort. ...
🎭 Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
7.4
1941
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wi ...
🎭 Waiter at Manila Club (uncredited)
6
1941
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for. ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.7
1941
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room. ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
5.1
1941
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
7.1
1941
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
5.8
1941
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victi ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter
6.5
1940
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights ...
🎭 Joe, Club Roscoe Waiter (uncredited)
5.6
1940
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia ...
🎭 Waiter
4.6
1940
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him ...
🎭 Waiter
5.3
1940
In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department ...
🎭 Waiter in Bar (uncredited)
5.5
1940
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success. ...
🎭 Waiter
6.8
1940
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a d ...
🎭 Waiter
0
1940
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhil ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
🎭 Waiter Bringing Caviar
7.3
1940
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, ...
🎭 Man in Unemployment Office (uncredited)
6.8
1940
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank p ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
5.8
1939
A punto de casarse con Sky, Linda se enamora de Jeff y se casa con él. Pronto se dará cuenta de que quizá no haya hecho una buena elección, pues Jeff solo piensa en su trabajo y apenas tienen ...
🎭 Lawn Party Waiter (Uncredited)
5.7
1939
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter
5.6
1939
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo ...
🎭 Doorman (uncredited)
6.2
1939
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. B ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter
5.5
1939
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. ...
🎭 Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)
6.1
1938
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy N ...
🎭 Reporter (uncredited)
5.9
1938
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts. ...
🎭 Bored Spectator (uncredited)
6
1937
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism. ...
🎭 Waiter
0
1935
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself. ...
🎭 Stagehand (uncredited)
7.4
1935
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliat ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
0
1935
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance. ...
🎭 Man at Mayoral Debate
4.5
1935
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years. ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.6
1935
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems. ...
🎭 The Butler (uncredited)
0
1935
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician. ...
🎭 Waiter #2 (uncredited)
5.7
1934
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking. ...
🎭 Bartender (uncredited)
7.5
1934
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts. ...
🎭 Waiter Getting Carl to Telephone
5.7
1934
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier. ...
🎭 Butler (uncredited)
🎭 Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
5.1
1932
A barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation. ...
🎭 Waiter (Uncredited)
6.2
1932
Harold Hall (Harold Lloyd), un joven sin ninguna habilidad ni talento como actor, quiere desesperadamente, actuar en una película. Así que marcha a Hollywood y se presenta a numerosos castings, ...
🎭 Butler (uncredited)
6.8
1932
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy dur ...
🎭 Waiter at Gaerste Party (uncredited)
6.5
1932
Lil trabaja para la empresa Legendre y hace que Bill se divorcie de Irene y se case con ella. Tiene un romance con el empresario Gaerste y lo utiliza para obligar a la sociedad a prestarle atenci ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.4
1932
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsom ...
🎭 Hotel Guest (uncredited)
8.1
1932
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family. ...
🎭 Man (uncredited)
6.4
1932
Después de décadas de criar a los hijos sin madre de Smith, la ama de llaves Emma Thatcher se enfrenta al resentimiento cuando se casa con su padre. ...
🎭 Waiter
7
1931
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner. ...
🎭 Country Club Waiter (uncredited)
5.5
1931
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events. ...
🎭 Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)
5.8
1930
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
7
1930
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy ...
🎭 Struthers - 2nd Butler (as William O'Brien)
4
1930
Dowdy housewife Kitty dotes on her self-centered husband but divorces him when his mistress shows up at their home one day to break up their marriage. Bob had become bored with her lackluster app ...
🎭 Party Butler #2 (uncredited)
4.7
1930
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around. ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.8
1928
Jealous that her older sister Grace has landed handsome and successful Tony Anderson, Patricia Harrington launches an elaborate charm offensive to win his heart. Patricia shrugs off her diffidenc ...