Henry O'Neill

About Henry O'Neill

Who is it?: Actor, Soundtrack
Birth Day: August 10, 1891
Birth Place:  Orange, New Jersey, United States
Died On: May 18, 1961(1961-05-18) (aged 69)\nHollywood, California, U.S.
Birth Sign: Virgo
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1930–1957
Spouse(s): Anna Barry (1924-1961) (his death) 1 child

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Henry O'Neill was born on August 10, 1891 in  Orange, New Jersey, United States, is Actor, Soundtrack. Suave, well-mannered, silvery-haired character actor Henry O'Neill played top supports in hundreds of films, often as a benign, wise, sensible father, judge, doctor, executive or lawyer. Most of his uppercrust career was split between two studios: Warner Bros in the 1930s and MGM in the 1940s. O'Neill was born in New Jersey in 1891 and dropped out of college to join a traveling theatre troupe. World War I service in the military intervened but he returned to acting in 1919 and began a distinguished career on the New York stage in the 1920s, his prematurely gray hair lending an air of pride and confidence in his many distinctive roles, particularly those in works of playwright Eugene O'Neill. In 1933 he made a solid, unerring switch to films and settled in for the duration. Although he was typically cast in agreeable roles, he certainly had it in him to be an urbane villain when the call came in. In the 1950s, due to ill health, he spaced out his feature work, making his last film, The Wings of Eagles (1957) with John Wayne. He also found employment in TV anthologies as well. He died in 1961 at the age of 69.
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1930

O'Neill began his acting career on the stage, after dropping out of college to join a traveling theatre company. He served in the military in World War I, then returned to the stage. In the early 1930s he began appearing in films, including The Big Shakedown (1934) with Charles Farrell and Bette Davis, the Errol Flynn/Olivia de Havilland Western Santa Fe Trail (1940), the Frank Sinatra/Gene Kelly musical Anchors Aweigh (1945), The Green Years (1946), and The Reckless Moment (1949). His last film was The Wings of Eagles (1957), starring John Wayne.