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Robert Emmett O'Connor

Born 1885-03-18

Died 1962-09-04

📍 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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Robert Emmett O'Connor (March 18, 1885 – September 4, 1962) was an American film actor. He appeared in 204 films between 1919 and 1950. He is probably best known as the warmhearted bootlegger Paddy Ryan in The Public Enemy (1931) and as Detective Sergeant Henderson pursuing the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera (1935). He also appeared as Jonesy (the older Paramount gate guard) in Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, as well as made a cameo appearance at the very beginning and very end of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short Who Killed Who? (1943).

Filmography 136

Sunset Boulevard

as Older Paramount Gate Guard Jonesy (uncredited)

as Policeman (uncredited)

Tenth Avenue Angel

as Mr. O'Callan (uncredited)

Merton of the Movies

as Mac - Restaurant Counterman (uncredited)

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

as Southerner (uncredited)

as Frank - Hotel Doorman (uncredited)

as Stationmaster (uncredited)

as Drunk (uncredited)

Till the Clouds Roll By

as Ed (uncredited)

as Stationmaster (uncredited)

Courage of Lassie

as Deputy (uncredited)

The Hoodlum Saint

as Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

as Rose Bowl Watchman (Uncredited)

The Harvey Girls

as Conductor (uncredited)

as Man in Cantina (uncredited)

They Were Expendable

as Silver Dollar Bartender (uncredited)

The Great American Mug

as Laughing Man (uncredited)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

as 2nd Studio Guard (uncredited)

A Gun in His Hand

as Veteran Policeman McGuinnes (uncredited)

as Cop (uncredited)

as Policeman (uncredited)

Main Street After Dark

as Policeman (uncredited)

The Thin Man Goes Home

as Baggage Attendant on Train (uncredited)

as Childers the Bartender (as Robert Emmet O'Connor)

Meet Me in St. Louis

as Motorman (uncredited)

Return from Nowhere

as Diner Cook (uncredited)

Barbary Coast Gent

as Joe the Bartender (uncredited)

as Sheriff (uncredited)

as Charlie the Bartender (uncredited)

Whistling in Brooklyn

as Detective Leo Finnigan

Best Foot Forward

as Train Conductor

Swing Shift Maisie

as Proprietor (Uncredited)

Who Killed Who?

as Host (uncredited)

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

as Samson (uncredited)

Air Raid Wardens

as Charlie Beaugart

Slightly Dangerous

as Reporter (uncredited)

The Human Comedy

as Bartender (uncredited)

The Greatest Gift

as Brother Xavier (uncredited)

The Omaha Trail

as Oxen Owner (uncredited)

as Peter Lawson

Maisie Gets Her Man

as Benefit Stage Manager (Uncredited)

as Joe's Co-worker (uncredited)

No Time for Comedy

as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

Dance, Girl, Dance

as Plainclothesman (uncredited)

A Fugitive from Justice

as Police Inspector

I Take This Oath

as Police Car Driver

as Patrolman Delaney

The Lone Wolf Strikes

as House Detective

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Streets of New York

as Police Officer Burke

Sergeant Madden

You Can't Get Away with Murder

as First Detective (uncredited)

Made for Each Other

as Harry (Elevator Starter) (uncredited)

Professor Beware

as Cop at Estate

Boy of the Streets

as Police Officer Rourke

Trapped by G-Men

as Federal Agent Jim

New Faces of 1937

The Last Train from Madrid

as Secret Service Man (uncredited)

as Larry Mann (aka John Mench)

as Santa Anita Clubhouse Bartender (uncredited)

Waikiki Wedding

as Policeman (uncredited)

Park Avenue Logger

as Police Sergeant

The Crime Nobody Saw

as Sergeant Hatton

We Who Are About to Die

as Detective Mitchell

Sinner Take All

as Police Capt. Greenwood (uncredited)

as Customs Official

as First Immigration Officer

Little Lord Fauntleroy

The Lone Wolf Returns

as Detective Benson

as Capt. McHenry (uncredited)

A Night at the Opera

Waterfront Lady

as Police Lieutenant

as Brady's Father

as Warden Clark (uncredited)

Star of Midnight

as Police Sergeant Cleary

The Mysterious Mr. Wong

as Officer 'Mac' McGillicuddy

as Dugan (uncredited)

Return of the Terror

as Inspector Bradley

as Detective Rooney

The Big Shakedown

as Inspector MacCreary

as Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens

as Detective (uncredited)

Don't Bet on Love

as Edward Shelton

as River Boat Captain Scroggins (uncredited)

Picture Snatcher

as Police Lt. Casey Nolan

Gabriel Over the White House

as Corrupt Police Inspector (uncredited)

Mystery of the Wax Museum

as Police Sergeant by Christmas Tre

as Jim Sandoval

The Kid from Spain

as Detective Crawford

as Dan O'Connor

American Madness

as Police Inspector

Week-End Marriage

as Police Desk Clerk Eddie (uncredited)

as The Policeman

The Arm of the Law

as Chief of Detectives Capt. Blake

as Police Sergeant (uncredited)

The Beast of the City

as Booking Policeman (uncredited)

as Cop with Jewish Man (uncredited)

Two Kinds of Women

Fanny Foley Herself

The Public Defender

as Detective Brady

Three Who Loved

as Police Lt. Tom Rooney

The Public Enemy

as Police Sgt. Cassidy

as Prison Warden (uncredited)

Shooting Straight

as Detective Regan

Our Blushing Brides

as The Detective

Alias French Gertie

as Detective Kelcey

as Sergeant Schultze

In the Next Room

The Isle of Lost Ships

Smiling Irish Eyes

as Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Freedom of the Press

as Boss Maloney

The Singing Fool

as Cafe Owner Bill

Dressed to Kill

as Detective Gilroy

as Second Foreman

His Royal Slyness

as (uncredited)