Arthur O'Connell
Biografia
Arthur O'Connell (March 29, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in films (starting with a small role in Citizen Kane) in 1941 and television programs (mostly guest appearances). Among his screen appearances were Picnic, Anatomy of a Murder, and as the watch-maker who hides Jews during WWII in The Hiding Place. A veteran vaudevillian, O'Connell, from New York City, made his legitimate stage debut in the mid 1930s, at which time he fell within the orbit of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. Welles cast O'Connell in the tiny role of a reporter in the closing scenes of Citizen Kane (1941), a film often referred to as O'Connell's film debut, though in fact he had already appeared in Freshman Year (1939) and had costarred in two Leon Errol short subjects as Leon's conniving brother-in-law. After numerous small movie parts, O'Connell returned to Broadway, where he appeared as the erstwhile middle-aged swain of a spinsterish schoolteacher in Picnic - a role he'd recreate in the 1956 film version, earning an Oscar nomination in the process. Later the jaded looking O'Connell was frequently cast as fortyish losers and alcoholics; in the latter capacity he appeared as James Stewart's boozy attorney mentor in Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and the result was another Oscar nomination. In 1962 O'Connell portrayed the father of Elvis Presley's character in the motion picture Follow That Dream, and in 1964 in the Presley-picture Kissin' Cousins. O'Connell continued appearing in choice character parts on both TV and films during the 1960s, but avoided a regular television series, holding out until he could be assured top billing. He appeared as Joseph Baylor in the 1964 episode "A Little Anger Is a Good Thing" on the ABC medical drama about psychiatry, Breaking Point. The actor accepted the part of a man who discovers that his 99-year-old father has been frozen in an iceberg on the 1967 sitcom The Second Hundred Years, assuming he'd be billed first per the producers' agreement. Instead, top billing went to newcomer Monte Markham in the dual role of O'Connell's father and his son. O'Connell accepted the demotion to second billing as well as could be expected, but he never again trusted the word of any Hollywood executive. Ill health forced O'Connell to significantly reduce his acting appearances in the mid '70s, but the actor stayed busy as a commercial spokesman, a friendly pharmacist who was a spokesperson for Crest toothpaste. At the time of his death from Alzheimer's disease in California in May 1981, O'Connell was appearing solely in these commercials, by his own choice. O'Connell was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur O'Connell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
Film • 2022
jako Self - (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Film • 1991
jako actor 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Medical Story
Serial • 1975
jako Dr. Avery Loomis
The Hiding Place
Film • 1975
jako Casper ten Boom, 'Papa'
Huckleberry Finn
Film • 1974
jako Col. Grangerford
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Film • 1974
jako Henry Gills
Adam's Rib
Serial • 1973
jako Judge
Wicked, Wicked
Film • 1973
jako Mr. Fenley, Hotel Engineer
Tragedia Posejdona
Film • 1972
jako John, the Chaplain
They Only Kill Their Masters
Film • 1972
jako Ernie
Ghost Story
Serial • 1972
jako Chief Owen Huston
The Paul Lynde Show
Serial • 1972
Ben
Film • 1972
jako Bill Hatfield
Emergency!
Serial • 1972
A Taste of Evil
Film • 1971
jako John
Cannon
Serial • 1971
Ostatnia dolina
Film • 1971
jako Hoffman
Alias Smith and Jones
Serial • 1971
Night Gallery
Serial • 1970
Był Sobie Łajdak
Film • 1970
jako Mr. Lomax
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Film • 1970
jako Mr. Kruft
McCloud
Serial • 1970
Nanny and the Professor
Serial • 1970
Seven in Darkness
Film • 1969
jako Larry Wise
Room 222
Serial • 1969
If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
Film • 1968
jako Prosecutor
The Name of the Game
Serial • 1968
jako Charlie Sherwin
The Power
Film • 1968
jako Henry Hallson
The Second Hundred Years
Serial • 1967
jako Edwin Carpenter
The Reluctant Astronaut
Film • 1967
jako Arbuckle "Buck" Fleming
Ironside
Serial • 1967
A Covenant with Death
Film • 1967
jako Judge Hockstadter
Fantastyczna podróż
Film • 1966
jako Col. Donald Reid
Birds Do It
Film • 1966
jako Professor Wald
The Silencers
Film • 1966
jako Joe Wigman
Noc odwetu
Film • 1966
jako The Narrator
The F.B.I.
Serial • 1965
jako Smitty
The Wild Wild West
Serial • 1965
The Big Valley
Serial • 1965
jako Jubal
The Monkey's Uncle
Film • 1965
jako Darius Green III
The Third Day
Film • 1965
jako Dr. Wheeler
Wielki wyścig
Film • 1965
jako Henry Goodbody
Nightmare in the Sun
Film • 1965
jako Sam Wilson
Your Cheatin' Heart
Film • 1964
jako Fred Rose
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Film • 1964
jako Clint Stark
Kissin' Cousins
Film • 1964
jako Pappy Tatum
Petticoat Junction
Serial • 1963
jako William Lawrence
Burke's Law
Serial • 1963
jako Dr. Stuart Alexander
The Fugitive
Serial • 1963
jako Dr. Josephus Harrison Adams
The Greatest Show on Earth
Serial • 1963
Arrest and Trial
Serial • 1963
Marilyn
Film • 1963
jako archive footage
Sam Benedict
Serial • 1962
Doścignąć marzenie
Film • 1962
jako Pop Kwimper
Arystokracja podziemi
Film • 1961
jako Count Alfonso Romero
The New Breed
Serial • 1961
jako Peter Capples
A Thunder of Drums
Film • 1961
jako Sgt. Karl Rodermill
Mgiełka
Film • 1961
jako Grandpa Clarence Beebe
The Great Impostor
Film • 1960
jako Warden J.B. Chandler
Cimarron
Film • 1960
jako Tom Wyatt
Special for Women
Serial • 1960
jako Joe Lawson
Route 66
Serial • 1960
My Three Sons
Serial • 1960
Operacja "Halka"
Film • 1959
jako Chief Motor Machinist's Mate Sam Tostin
Hound-Dog Man
Film • 1959
jako Aaron McKinney
Startime
Serial • 1959
jako Self
Bonanza
Serial • 1959
jako Dr. Samuel Hubert
Anatomia morderstwa
Film • 1959
jako Parnell Emmett McCarthy
Gidget
Film • 1959
jako Russell Lawrence
Człowiek z Dzikiego Zachodu
Film • 1958
jako Sam Beasley
Voice in the Mirror
Film • 1958
jako Bill Tobin
The Violators
Film • 1957
jako Solomon Baumgarten
April Love
Film • 1957
jako Jed Bruce
Alcoa Theatre
Serial • 1957
DuPont Show of the Month
Serial • 1957
Wagon Train
Serial • 1957
Operation Mad Ball
Film • 1957
jako Col. Rousch
Montecarlo
Film • 1956
jako Mr. Homer Hinkley
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Serial • 1956
jako Lyman
Przystanek autobusowy
Film • 1956
jako Virgil Blessing
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Film • 1956
jako Mark Jenkins
Dumni
Film • 1956
jako Jim Dexter
Człowiek w szarym garniturze
Film • 1956
jako Gordon Walker
Picnic
Film • 1955
jako Howard Bevans
Matinee Theater
Serial • 1955
Summer Playhouse
Serial • 1954
Oscary
Serial • 1953
jako Self
Omnibus
Serial • 1952
The Whistle at Eaton Falls
Film • 1951
jako Jim Brewster
Siła zła
Film • 1950
jako Link Hall (uncredited)
The Taming of the Shrew
Film • 1950
jako Curtis
Studio One
Serial • 1948
jako Curtis
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Film • 1948
jako Assistant Director Jensen
The Philco Television Playhouse
Serial • 1948
One Touch of Venus
Film • 1948
jako Reporter
State of the Union
Film • 1948
jako First Reporter
Homecoming
Film • 1948
jako Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Nagie miasto
Film • 1948
jako Sgt. Shaeffer (uncredited)
Open Secret
Film • 1948
jako Carter
Hello, Annapolis
Film • 1942
jako Pharmacist Mate
Fingers at the Window
Film • 1942
jako Photographer (uncredited)
Blondie's Blessed Event
Film • 1942
jako Interne (uncredited)
Canal Zone
Film • 1942
jako New Recruit (uncredited)
Law of the Jungle
Film • 1942
jako Simmons
Man From Headquarters
Film • 1942
jako Goldie Shores
Obywatel Kane
Film • 1941
jako Reporter (uncredited)
Hullabaloo
Film • 1940
jako Fourth Page
He Asked for It
Film • 1940
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Film • 1940
jako Intern (uncredited)
The Golden Fleecing
Film • 1940
jako Cameraman (uncredited)
Bested by a Beard
Film • 1940
jako Phil
'Taint Legal
Film • 1940
jako Book Salesman
I Take This Oath
Film • 1940
jako Court Clerk
Two Girls on Broadway
Film • 1940
jako Reporter at Wedding (uncredited)
And One Was Beautiful
Film • 1940
jako Moroni's Parking Attendant
Murder in Soho
Film • 1939
jako Lefty