
Arthur O'Connell
- Atuação
- 29 de março de 1908 – 18 de maio de 1981 · com 73 anos
- New York City, New York, USA
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.
Principais trabalhos
Filmografia48
- 1975
The Hiding PlaceFilme6.9
- 1972

BenFilme6.1
Emergency!Série8.0
- 1971
CannonSérie6.7
The Last ValleyFilme6.5
Alias Smith and JonesSérie7.0
- 1970

There Was a Crooked Man...Filme6.8
McCloudSérie7.2
Nanny and the ProfessorSérie6.7
- 1968
The Name of the GameSérie7.0
The PowerFilme6.3
- 1967
IronsideSérie6.8
- 1966


Ride Beyond VengeanceFilme6.0
- 1965
The F.B.I.Série5.6
The Wild Wild WestSérie7.6
The Big ValleySérie6.2

- 1964
Kissin' CousinsFilme4.7
- 1963
Petticoat JunctionSérie5.9
Burke's LawSérie6.2
The FugitiveSérie7.3
- 1961
- 1960

My Three SonsSérie6.6
- 1959

BonanzaSérie7.5


- 1958
- 1957
Wagon TrainSérie6.6
- 1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreSérie6.2

The Solid Gold CadillacFilme6.3
The Man in the Gray Flannel SuitFilme6.7
- 1955

Matinee TheaterSérie5.3
- 1953
The OscarsSérie7.1
- 1952
OmnibusSérie7.0
- 1950
- 1948
Studio OneSérie5.4
The Philco Television PlayhouseSérie6.6

- 1941
- 1940
Two Girls on BroadwayFilme7.0



