Arthur O'Connell

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.    

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Tragedia Posejdona 1972Film jako John, the Chaplain

Piknik 1955Film jako Howard Bevans

Anatomia morderstwa 1959Film jako Parnell Emmett McCarthy

Kochający się kuzyni 1964Film jako Pappy Tatum

Przystanek autobusowy 1956Film jako Virgil Blessing

Wielki wyścig 1965Film jako Henry Goodbody

Władza 1968Film jako Henry Hallson

Fantastyczna podróż 1966Film jako Col. Donald Reid

The Silencers 1966Film jako Joe Wigman

Gidget 1959Film jako Russell Lawrence

The Solid Gold Cadillac 1956Film jako Mark Jenkins

Człowiek z Dzikiego Zachodu 1958Film +4 jako Sam Beasley

Człowiek w szarym garniturze 1956Film jako Gordon Walker

Ben 1972Film jako Bill Hatfield

Był Sobie Łajdak 1970Film jako Mr. Lomax

Arystokracja podziemi 1961Film jako Count Alfonso Romero

A Thunder of Drums 1961Film jako Sgt. Karl Rodermill

Cimarron 1960Film jako Tom Wyatt

Siedem wcieleń doktora Lao 1964Film jako Clint Stark

State of the Union 1948Film jako First Reporter

Dumni 1956Film jako Jim Dexter

Doścignąć marzenie 1962Film jako Pop Kwimper

One Touch of Venus 1948Film jako Reporter

The Hiding Place 1975Film jako Casper ten Boom, 'Papa'

Ostatnia dolina 1971Film jako Hoffman

A Taste of Evil 1971Film jako John

The Monkey's Uncle 1965Film jako Darius Green III

Siła zła 1950Film jako Link Hall (uncredited)

They Only Kill Their Masters 1972Film jako Ernie

The Great Impostor 1960Film jako Warden J.B. Chandler

Noc odwetu 1966Film jako The Narrator

Operation Mad Ball 1957Film jako Col. Rousch

A Covenant with Death 1967Film jako Judge Hockstadter

Blondie's Blessed Event 1942Film jako Interne (uncredited)

Law of the Jungle 1942Film jako Simmons

Huckleberry Finn 1974Film jako Col. Grangerford

Birds Do It 1966Film jako Professor Wald

The Reluctant Astronaut 1967Film jako Arbuckle "Buck" Fleming

I Take This Oath 1940Film jako Court Clerk

Mgiełka 1961Film jako Grandpa Clarence Beebe

Homecoming 1948Film jako Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)

Your Cheatin' Heart 1964Film jako Fred Rose