Arthur O'Connell
Gender: Male
Born: 29th March 1908
Died: 18th May 1981
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Second Hundred Years
Movies: Anatomy of a Murder, Ben, Birds Do It, Bus Stop, Follow that Dream, Kissin' Cousins, Pocketful of Miracles, The Great Impostor, The Monte Carlo Story, The Hiding Place, The Poseidon Adventure, Operation Mad Ball, Fantastic Voyage, Law of the Jungle, Murder in Soho, Cimarron, The Last Valley, A Thunder of Drums, Wicked, Wicked, The Great Race, Hound-Dog Man, Man of the West, Gidget, Misty, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, There Was a Crooked Man..., Huckleberry Finn, Operation Petticoat, The Solid Gold Cadillac, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The Silencers, Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came, Citizen Kane, The Proud Ones, Picnic, The Reluctant Astronaut, April Love, Open Secret, The Countess of Monte Cristo
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 (film).
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
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