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Arthur O'Connell

Arthur O'Connell

Oyuncu · 1908 – 1981 · 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.

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  • Film8.0

    Citizen Kane

    Yurttaş Kane

    1941 · 6.2K votes

  • Film7.8

    Anatomy of a Murder

    Bir Cinayetin Anatomisi

    1959 · 1.2K votes

  • Film7.2

    The Poseidon Adventure

    Poseidon Macerası

    1972 · 1.1K votes

  • Film6.7

    Fantastic Voyage

    Fantastik Yolculuk

    1966 · 513 votes

  • Film7.1

    The Great Race

    1965 · 390 votes

  • Film6.6

    Man of the West

    Batıdan Gelen Adam

    1958 · 244 votes

  • Film6.2

    Cimarron

    1960 · 80 votes

  • Film6.1

    The Silencers

    1966 · 55 votes

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    Operation Petticoat

    Donanmanın Melekleri

    1959 · 429 votes

  • Film7.2

    The Naked City

    1948 · 292 votes

  • Film6.1

    Bus Stop

    Otobüs Durağı

    1956 · 254 votes

  • Film6.5

    The Last Valley

    1971 · 64 votes

  • Film6.4

    Picnic

    Piknik

    1955 · 112 votes

  • Film7.3

    Pocketful of Miracles

    1961 · 189 votes

  • Film6.1

    Ben

    1972 · 144 votes

  • Film6.0

    Gidget

    1959 · 44 votes

  • Film6.7
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    7 Faces of Dr. Lao

    1964 · 101 votes

  • Film6.5

    The Proud Ones

    1956 · 38 votes

  • Film6.8

    State of the Union

    1948 · 76 votes

  • Film4.9

    Wicked, Wicked

    Sadist

    1973 · 15 votes

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  • Film5.6

    A Thunder of Drums

    Şimşek Çakan Davullar

    1961 · 28 votes

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    1959 · 500 votes

  • Dizi6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • Dizi7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • Dizi6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • Dizi5.3

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    1955 · 7 votes

  • Dizi7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • Dizi6.7

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    1971 · 41 votes

  • Dizi8.0

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    1972 · 53 votes

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    1963 · 42 votes

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    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

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    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

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    My Three Sons

    1960 · 41 votes

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    1965 · 59 votes

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    1963 · 12 votes

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    1953 · 84 votes

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    1965 · 86 votes

  • Dizi6.7

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    1960 · 20 votes

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    Night Gallery

    1970 · 112 votes

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    1952 · 4 votes

  • Dizi7.2

    McCloud

    1970 · 53 votes

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    1971 · 33 votes

  • Dizi6.1

    Room 222

    1969 · 19 votes