Henry O'Neill

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Gender: Male
Born: 10th August 1891
Died: 18th May 1961
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Air Raid Wardens, Nothing But Trouble, Invisible Stripes, The Angels Wash Their Faces, White Banners, Shadow of the Thin Man, The Walking Dead, Three Wise Fools, Castle on the Hudson, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Girl Crazy, Scandal Sheet, Murder in the Clouds, The Life of Emile Zola, Santa Fe Trail, Knute Rockne, All American, Anchors Aweigh, Johnny Eager, Dodge City, The Story of Louis Pasteur, Marked Woman, Fashions of 1934, Jezebel, Holiday Affair, Lady Killer, Bullets or Ballots, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Hollywood Tough Guys #1: Call It Murder, No Man of Her Own, The Bugle Sounds, Calling Philo Vance, Yellow Jack, Money and the Woman, Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case, Men of Boys Town, Born to Sing, This Time for Keeps, Dangerous Partners, The Chaser, Down in San Diego, Pierre of the Plains, Little Mister Jim, The Hoodlum Saint, Lucky Night, Strange Bargain

Henry O'Neill (August 10, 1891 – May 18, 1961) was a film actor known for playing gray-haired fathers, lawyers, and similarly dignified roles during the 1930s and 1940s.

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.

O'Neill died in Hollywood, California at the age of 69.

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