Películas dramáticas de William H. O'Brien
Películas de William H. O'Brien filtradas por género
🎭 Waiter at Men's Club
6.4
1970
Un temporal de nieve azota Chicago, dificultando el intenso tráfico de su aeropuerto. A pesar de las malas condiciones meteorológicas, el aeropuerto consigue permanecer abierto, pero entre los ...
🎭 Butler (uncredited)
6
1969
Copenhague, Dinamarca, 1962. Cuando un alto funcionario soviético decide cambiar de bando, un agente de los servicios de inteligencia franceses se ve envuelto en una fría, silenciosa y sangrien ...
🎭 Bartender (uncredited)
6
1967
In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Ne ...
🎭 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 ...
🎭 Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
8
1962
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. Wh ...
🎭 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 ...
🎭 Bund Meeting Spectator
6.6
1962
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies. ...
🎭 Funeral Assistant (uncredited)
7.7
1961
Karen y Martha son dos buenas amigas y socias que dirigen una exclusiva escuela privada para niñas, la Escuela Dobie-Wright. Karen está prometida con el doctor Joe Cardin, con el que pretende c ...
🎭 German Prisoner in Cafeteria (uncredited)
8
1961
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimon ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6
1961
Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate. ...
🎭 Train Conductor
7.2
1960
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a s ...
🎭 Circus Spectator
6.1
1960
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games ...
🎭 Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)
5.1
1959
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story. ...
🎭 Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
5.8
1959
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To m ...
🎭 Man (uncredited)
7.1
1958
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politic ...
🎭 Waiter at Christmas Party
7.4
1958
A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital. ...
🎭 Barrister (uncredited)
8.2
1957
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal hea ...
🎭 Nightclub Bartender (uncredited)
5.6
1957
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois. ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
6.8
1957
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog. ...
🎭 Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
8.1
1957
Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker. A brok ...
🎭 Onlooker at Fire (uncredited)
4.5
1957
An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler. ...
🎭 Dixon's Valet (uncredited)
5
1957
In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union. ...
🎭 Waiter at 21 (uncredited)
7.6
1957
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a r ...
🎭 Juror (uncredited)
5.3
1957
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose ...
🎭 Ringsider (uncredited)
7.1
1956
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking gian ...
7.1
1956
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life. ...
🎭 Butler (uncredited)
6.5
1955
Después de enviar a un hombre inocente a la silla eléctrica, un agresivo abogado deja su trabajo en la fiscalía, vuelve a beber y comienza a ejercer como abogado defensor de una nueva y deshon ...
5.8
1955
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts. ...
🎭 Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
7.1
1954
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. ...
🎭 Servant
7.1
1954
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New ...
🎭 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 ...
🎭 Restaurant Cook
5.9
1954
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a ter ...
🎭 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 ...
🎭 Waiter at Party (uncredited)
7.3
1952
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James ...
🎭 Waiter at Party (uncredited)
7.2
1952
Hubo un tiempo en que Margaret Elliott fue una rutilante estrella de Hollywood, pero en la actualidad está arruinada y nadie se acuerda de ella; pero Margaret se niega a aceptarlo. Sólo el apoy ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.5
1952
Carrie (Jennifer Jones) es una campesina que decide irse a Chicago, donde se convierte en una famosa actriz. Allí vivirá un amor apasionado con un hombre casado (Laurence Olivier), un respetabl ...
🎭 Observer at Scene (uncredited)
4.6
1952
American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a beautiful Red Cross volunteer, who arranges for t ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.8
1952
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is th ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
7.6
1951
A fading southern belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity. ...
🎭 Customer at Minosa's (uncredited)
7.8
1951
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career. ...
🎭 Man Entering Apt. Building (uncredited)
7.2
1951
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment. ...
🎭 Servant at Eastman's Party (uncredited)
7.3
1951
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy. ...
🎭 Café Waiter (uncredited)
6.5
1951
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his li ...
🎭 Waiter at Margo's Party (uncredited)
8.1
1950
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Bro ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.1
1950
Interesante muestra de cine negro, sigue a un fotógrafo sin demasiados escrúpulos, que encandila a un gángster para que le deje tomar determinadas instantáneas que enseguida le sitúan en lo ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
7
1950
Película sobre la difícil reincorporación a la vida civil de los soldados parapléjicos a causa de las heridas recibidas en la guerra. Norm es uno de ellos y ha perdido completamente la espera ...
🎭 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 ...
🎭 Conventioneer (uncredited)
6.2
1950
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible tru ...
7
1949
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society. ...
🎭 Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
5.8
1948
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend. ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.6
1947
Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, ...
🎭 Bartender at Stork Club (uncredited)
6.7
1947
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran name ...
🎭 Bartender (uncredited)
6.7
1947
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, ...
🎭 Servant with Tray (uncredited)
6.6
1947
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears. ...
🎭 Barrister (uncredited)
6.8
1947
Inglaterra, principios del siglo XX. Ivy Lexton (Joan Fontaine) es una pérfida mujer que no duda en utilizar todos sus recursos para escalar en la alta sociedad, llegando incluso al asesinato pa ...
6.3
1947
A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him. ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
7.8
1946
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to be ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
5.8
1946
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever s ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.2
1946
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece. ...
🎭 Waiter at Wedding Brunch (uncredited)
5.2
1946
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding atten ...
🎭 Bus Passenger (uncredited)
6.4
1945
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a qui ...
🎭 Coach Footman (uncredited)
5.8
1945
Una farsa con cierto estilo según la novela de Rosamund Marshall, que bebe directamente de la idea de Pigmalión. Esta vez se traslada la acción al Londres del siglo XVIII, donde unos conspirad ...
🎭 Footman (uncredited)
7.1
1945
Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian ...
🎭 Guest at Salon Concert (uncredited)
6.1
1945
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and in ...
🎭 Servant Peeking in Keyhole (uncredited)
6
1944
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims. ...
🎭 Troop Ship Survivor (Uncredited)
5.5
1943
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson ...
🎭 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 ...
4.3
1942
Julie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost who runs a desert night club several miles away. ...
🎭 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 ...
🎭 King's Club Worker (uncredited)
5.4
1942
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society. ...
🎭 Secretary (uncredited)
8
1941
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes fo ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.8
1940
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better ...
🎭 Waiter
6.2
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, ...
🎭 Waiter
5.2
1940
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home. ...
🎭 Turnkey (uncredited)
5.6
1940
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley. ...
🎭 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 ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
5.8
1939
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing. ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.6
1938
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe. ...
🎭 Senate Waiter (uncredited)
6.4
1938
Los O'Leary son una familia de pioneros cuyos hijos mayores alcanzan poder y notoriedad en la bulliciosa ciudad de Chicago. Jack (Don Ameche) es elegido alcalde con la ayuda de su popular hermano ...
🎭 Butler at Party (uncredited)
6.9
1938
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperou ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
🎭 Waiter
6.7
1937
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man. ...
🎭 Waiter at Chicken's Ball (uncredited)
6.6
1936
La cantante de ópera Mary Blake huye de la miseria y busca cobijo en Blackie Norton, un empresario de San Francisco que le proporciona trabajo. Inevitablemente, surge una estrecha relación entr ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter
5.8
1936
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed. ...
🎭 Extra as Ship Waiter
4.8
1936
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry. ...
🎭 Waiter in Restaurant (uncredited)
6
1936
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets. ...
🎭 Waiter
6
1935
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady. ...
🎭 Casino de Paree Waiter
7.5
1935
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters. ...
🎭 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. ...
🎭 Hammond's Butler (uncredited)
3.5
1933
Newlywed carnival performers decide to try their luck in New York, but their marriage begins to crumble when their careers take separate paths. ...
🎭 Nightclub Waiter (Uncredited)
6.8
1933
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addresse ...
🎭 Butler (uncredited)
🎭 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 ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
7.5
1932
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio "Tony" Camonte, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life. ...
🎭 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. ...
🎭 Sleek's Butler
0
1931
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have ...
🎭 Victor - Mike's Butler
6
1931
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety. ...
🎭 Waiter
3
1931
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, go ...
🎭 Chéri-Bibi's Valet (uncredited)
5.9
1931
Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him. ...
🎭 Duncan (uncredited)
6.3
1931
John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working ...
🎭 Nick's Chauffeur Bill (uncredited)
7
1931
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events. ...
🎭 Elevator starter
4.3
1931
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society." ...
🎭 Brooks' Butler (uncredited)
4.5
1931
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity. ...
🎭 Waiter at Ball
🎭 Butler
5.7
1930
A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after. ...
🎭 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 ...
🎭 Footman
3.5
1930
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mot ...
🎭 Waiter at Coney Island (uncredited)
6.1
1930
Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.3
1930
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his ad ...
🎭 Butler (uncredited)
6.7
1929
Marion trabaja como secretaria del abogado Hector Ferguson. Jack, cliente de Ferguson se enamora de Marion, y pasados unos meses se casan, pero la familia de él anula el matrimonio justo despué ...
🎭 Man Peering Into Room (uncredited)
6.6
1928
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resul ...
🎭 Detective Frisking Nick
6.5
1928
Cine negro. Estuvo nominada al Óscar a la mejor película, en la primera edición de los premios de la Academia. El protagonista es el capitán McQuigg (Thomas Meighan), un honrado policía irla ...
🎭 Waiter at Blackie Joe's (uncredited)
4.8
1928
After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold ...
🎭 Cafe Waiter Serving Wine (uncredited)
7.4
1928
A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in danger. ...
🎭 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 ...
🎭 Apartment Tenant
5.8
1928
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing ...
🎭 College Student (uncredited)
6.5
1921
Vicisitudes de los habitantes de una ciudad de provincias, donde confluyen diversos personajes, cada uno con sus problemas, sus formas de pensar y su manera de afrontar los desafíos que les plan ...