Henry O'Neill

Henry O'Neill

August 9, 1891

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 Wa…

Known For

41 titles
1
Jezebel

Jezebel

1938 · 1h 44m · Movie

In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.

7.4
2
The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of Emile Zola

1937 · 1h 56m · Movie

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair, a Jewish army officer who is accused of treason.

7.1
3
Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh

1945 · 2h 20m · Movie

A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.

7.0
4
They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night

1940 · 1h 35m · Movie

When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.

7.2
5
Holiday Affair

Holiday Affair

1949 · 1h 27m · Movie

A young widow is torn between a boring attorney and a romantic ne'er-do-well.

7.1
6
The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment

1949 · 1h 22m · Movie

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

7.1
7
Dodge City

Dodge City

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.

7.1
8
Marked Woman

Marked Woman

1937 · 1h 36m · Movie

A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.

7.1
9
The Wings of Eagles

The Wings of Eagles

1957 · 1h 50m · Movie

A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.

6.6
10
Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail

1940 · 1h 50m · Movie

In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

6.2
11
Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet

1952 · 1h 22m · Movie

The editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself.

7.4
12
Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots

1936 · 1h 22m · Movie

When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket.

7.0
13
The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead

1936 · 1h 6m · Movie

After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.

6.6
14
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

1938 · 1h 27m · Movie

A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.

7.0
15
The Story of Louis Pasteur

The Story of Louis Pasteur

1936 · 1h 26m · Movie

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

7.3
16
A Guy Named Joe

A Guy Named Joe

1944 · 2h 0m · Movie

A dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's mem...

6.9
17
No Man of Her Own

No Man of Her Own

1950 · 1h 38m · Movie

A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad-crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.

7.4
18
Juarez

Juarez

1939 · 2h 5m · Movie

Louis Napoleon III (Claude Rains) takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg (Brian Aherne) to add Mexico to his empire.

6.9
19
Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy

1943 · 1h 39m · Movie

A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments.

6.8
20
Knute Rockne All American

Knute Rockne All American

1940 · 1h 38m · Movie

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

6.7
21
Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

6.7
22
Anthony Adverse

Anthony Adverse

1936 · 2h 21m · Movie

In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.

6.3
23
Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat

1942 · 1h 45m · Movie

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.

6.2
24
Fashions of 1934

Fashions of 1934

1934 · 1h 18m · Movie

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.

6.6
25
The Fighting 69th

The Fighting 69th

1940 · 1h 30m · Movie

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.

6.6
26
Invisible Stripes

Invisible Stripes

1939 · 1h 21m · Movie

An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.

6.7
27
The Sun Shines Bright

The Sun Shines Bright

1953 · 1h 30m · Movie

William Pittman Priest has to use all his wiles to retain his position as judge in his Kentucky hometown, while continuing to be a voice for the town's underclass and for democratic values.

6.9
28
Alias Nick Beal

Alias Nick Beal

1949 · 1h 33m · Movie

A district attorney rises to political success and the governorship but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and perhaps diabolical Nick Beal.

7.1
29
Convicted

Convicted

1950 · 1h 31m · Movie

A district attorney becomes the warden of a state prison so that he can help a convict he prosecuted because he now believes the sentence to be excessive.

6.8
30
The Virginian

The Virginian

1946 · 1h 27m · Movie

In Medicine Bow, a newly arrived eastern schoolteacher is courted by two cowpokes but their courtship is interrupted by violent incidents involving local cattle rustlers.

6.4
31
Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk

1941 · 1h 45m · Movie

Fast-talking con man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

6.6
32
Special Agent

Special Agent

1935 · 1h 16m · Movie

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Alexander Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates wit...

6.4
33
Black Fury

Black Fury

1935 · 1h 34m · Movie

An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.

6.4
34
Best Foot Forward

Best Foot Forward

1943 · 1h 34m · Movie

Lucille Ball accepts a cadet's invitation to a military academy's senior prom in order to boost her career.

6.4
35
The Hoodlum Saint

The Hoodlum Saint

1946 · 1h 31m · Movie

A former reporter returns home after serving in the Army during World War I and discovers that finding work is more difficult than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerf...

6.1
36
The Man with Two Faces

The Man with Two Faces

1934 · 1h 12m · Movie

A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.

6.4