Movies: William J. O'Brien

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence....

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien)....

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily....

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Fl...

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans....

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assi...

A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion....

An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime....

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. ...

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death....

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer....

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame....

Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gol...

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him....

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death....

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hi...

While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl whose nurse has been recently murdered....

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout....

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression....

A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars....