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Erin O'Brien-Moore is a Actor American born on 2 may 1902

Erin O'Brien-Moore

Erin O'Brien-Moore
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Nationality USA
Birth 2 may 1902
Death 3 may 1979 (at 77 years)

Erin O'Brien-Moore (parfois créditée Erin O'Brien Moore) est une actrice américaine, née le 2 mai 1902 à Los Angeles (Californie), ville où elle est morte le 3 mai 1979.

Biography

Erin O'Brien-Moore débute comme actrice au théâtre et joue notamment à Broadway (New York) dans dix pièces, la première étant L'Affaire Makropoulos de Karel Čapek en 1926, avec Harry Davenport.

Après sept autres pièces jusqu'en 1933 (dont Street Scene d'Elmer Rice, avec Astrid Allwyn, représentée 601 fois de janvier 1929 à juin 1930), elle ne revient sur les planches new-yorkaises que pour deux dernières pièces, respectivement en 1938 et 1943. Entretemps, elle est gravement brûlée dans l'incendie d'un restaurant en 1939 et subit de multiples interventions chirurgicales, la contraignant à suspendre sa carrière.

Au cinéma, elle contribue dans un premier temps à quatorze films américains sortis de 1934 à 1937, les trois derniers étant La Légion noire d'Archie Mayo et Michael Curtiz (avec Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran et Ann Sheridan), La Lumière verte de Frank Borzage (avec Errol Flynn et Anita Louise) et La Vie d'Émile Zola (avec Paul Muni dans le rôle-titre), sortis en 1937. Mentionnons également Révolte à Dublin de John Ford (1936, avec Barbara Stanwyck et Preston Foster).

En raison de ses activités au théâtre et de l'accident pré-cité, Erin O'Brien-Moore ne revient au cinéma que pour sept autres films américains, le premier étant Destination... Lune ! d'Irving Pichel (avec John Archer et Warner Anderson), sorti en 1950. Elle tourne ses cinq suivants au cours des années 1950, dont Ce n'est qu'un au revoir (1955, avec Tyrone Power et Maureen O'Hara), où elle retrouve John Ford. Son ultime film (un petit rôle non crédité) sort en 1967.

Pour la télévision, elle collabore à vingt-cinq séries, entre 1948 et 1970. Citons deux rôles récurrents, celui de Margaret Ruggles dans la sitcom The Ruggles (1949-1952, avec Charles Ruggles), puis celui de l'infirmière Esther Choate, dans le feuilleton Peyton Place (82 épisodes, 1965-1969, avec Ed Nelson et Dorothy Malone) ; notons ici que son avant-dernier film est Peyton Place de Mark Robson (adapté comme le feuilleton du roman éponyme et titré en français Les Plaisirs de l'enfer), avec Lana Turner, sorti en 1957.

Best films

Destination Moon (1950)
(Actress)

Usually with

David Swift
David Swift
(1 films)
Max Steiner
Max Steiner
(4 films)
Moroni Olsen
Moroni Olsen
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Erin O'Brien-Moore (20 films)

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Actress

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, 2h1
Directed by David Swift
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallée, Anthony 'Scooter' Teague, Maureen Arthur, Ruth Kobart
Roles Mrs. Frump (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.5964253.5964253.5964253.5964253.596425
J. Pierpont Finch buys a book, How to Succeed in Business, describing in step-by-step fashion how to rise in the business world. The ambitious young window cleaner follows its advice carefully. He joins the "World-Wide Wicket Company" and begins work in the mailroom. Soon, thanks to the ethically-questionable advice in the book, he rises to Vice-President in Charge of Advertising, making sure that each person above him gets either fired or moved or transferred within the company.
Peyton Place, 2h37
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Children's films
Actors Lana Turner, Diane Varsi, Hope Lange, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Philips, John Arthur Kennedy
Roles Mrs. Page
Rating71% 3.5957253.5957253.5957253.5957253.595725
In the seemingly idyllic New England town of Peyton Place, drunkard Lucas Cross (Arthur Kennedy) stumbles out of his house as his son leaves town. Lucas's downtrodden wife, Nellie (Betty Field) goes to work as the housekeeper for Constance "Connie" MacKenzie (Lana Turner), a local dress shop owner. The daughters of the two families, Allison MacKenzie (Diane Varsi) and Selena Cross (Hope Lange) are best friends and are about to graduate high school.
The Long Gray Line, 2h18
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Actors Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Donald Crisp, Ward Bond, Betsy Palmer
Roles Mrs. Koehler
Rating71% 3.5947053.5947053.5947053.5947053.594705
The movie is framed as the reminiscences of Master Sergeant Martin Maher (Tyrone Power), who first came to West Point in 1898 as a civilian employee. Arriving from County Tipperary, Ireland, Marty begins as a waiter. When he realizes that enlisted men receive better treatment than do hired laborers, he immediately signs up. Capt. Koehler (Ward Bond), impressed with his boxing skills, wants him as an assistant in athletics instruction.
Phantom of the Rue Morgue, 1h23
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, Steve Forrest, Allyn Ann McLerie, Anthony Caruso
Roles Wardrobe Woman
Rating59% 2.9527052.9527052.9527052.9527052.952705
In France in the 1870s, a string of strange murders happen in the Rue Morgue. The authorities are baffled, but they do have one man who may have the answers, Prof. Dupin.
Sea of Lost Ships, 1h25
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Action
Actors John Derek, Wanda Hendrix, Walter Brennan, Richard Jaeckel, Tom Tully, Barton MacLane
Roles Mrs. Nora O'Malley
Rating68% 3.4208653.4208653.4208653.4208653.420865
The Family Secret
Directed by Henry Levin
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors John Derek, Lee J. Cobb, Jody Lawrance, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Santos Ortega, Henry O'Neill
Roles Ellen Clark
Rating61% 3.0938253.0938253.0938253.0938253.093825
Law student David Clark kills best friend Art Bradley in self-defense after an argument. He flees, but later confesses to his father, Howard, a lawyer. The next morning, Howard expects his son to explain what happened to district attorney Redman, but instead David merely asks the DA if he can be of any help after another man, Joe Elsner, is arrested. Elsner is a bookie to whom the dead man owed a debt.
Destination Moon, 1h32
Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Films based on science fiction novels, Space opera, Sur la Lune
Actors John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Roles Emily Cargraves
Rating62% 3.145843.145843.145843.145843.14584
When their latest rocket test fails and government funding collapses, rocket scientist Dr. Charles Cargraves (Warner Anderson) and space enthusiast General Thayer (Tom Powers) enlist the aid of aircraft magnate Jim Barnes (John Archer). With the necessary millions raised privately from a group of patriotic U. S. industrialists, Cargraves, Warner, and Barnes build an advanced single-stage-to-orbit atomic powered spaceship, named Luna, at their desert manufacturing and launch facility; the project is soon threatened by a ginned-up public uproar over "radiation safety". The three idealists circumvent legal efforts to stop their expedition by simply launching the world's first Moon mission well ahead of schedule; as a result, they must quickly substitute Joe Sweeney (Dick Wesson) as their expedition's radar and radio operator.
Green Light, 1h25
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Cedric Hardwicke, Walter Abel, Henry O'Neill
Roles Pat Arlen
Rating61% 3.050153.050153.050153.050153.05015
Errol Flynn stars as Dr. Newell Paige, a surgeon whose refusal to name the real culprit in an operation gone fatally awry results in the ruin of his career. Dismissed from the hospital staff, Paige leaves Massachusetts and travels to Montana to assist a researcher in Rocky Mountain spotted fever, almost dying when he subjects himself to an experimental serum. Anita Louise stars as Phyllis Dexter, his eventual love interest, and Cedric Hardwicke as Dean Harcourt, an Anglican clergyman and radio preacher whose advice Dr. Paige at first dismisses, then later realizes is the truth. The film ends with Paige, returned to his former post and cleared of all charges, and Phyllis seated in the cathedral, listening to Dean Harcourt quoting a Psalm, followed by the St. Luke choristers' amen.
The Life of Emile Zola, 1h56
Directed by William Dieterle, Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Seafaring films, Prison films, Films about racism, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about capital punishment, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Paul Muni, Gloria Holden, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Donald Crisp, Henry O'Neill
Roles Nana
Rating71% 3.595163.595163.595163.595163.59516
Set in the mid through late 19th century, it depicts Zola's friendship with Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne, and his rise to fame through his prolific writing, with particular focus on his involvement late in life in the Dreyfus affair.
Black Legion, 1h23
Directed by Michael Curtiz, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ann Sheridan, Helen Flint, Joe Sawyer
Roles Ruth Taylor
Rating68% 3.4459653.4459653.4459653.4459653.445965
When passed over for promotion at work in favor of a foreign-born friend, Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart), a midwestern factory worker, joins the anti-immigrant Black Legion, a secret white vigilante organization portrayed as related to the Ku Klux Klan. Dressed in black robes and hoods, Taylor and the Legion mount a torchlight raid and burn down the friend's chicken farm, driving him out of town, so that Taylor can gain the job he believed was his. Soon, however, Taylor's recruiting activities with the Legion get in the way of his work, and he is demoted in favor of neighbor Mike Grogan (Clifford Soubier). The Legion takes action again, attacking Grogan.
The Plough and the Stars, 1h7
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Una O'Connor, Arthur Shields
Roles Rosie Redmond
Rating56% 2.805672.805672.805672.805672.80567
Irlande 1916, les débuts de l'Insurrection de Pâques... À Dublin, des temps troublés s'annoncent. Alors qu'elle ne se sent pas concernée par l'insurrection irlandaise qui vient, Nora Clitheroe, une jeune épouse amoureuse, apprend que son mari, Jack, a été nommé commandant de l'armée clandestine irlandaise. Habitée par la crainte pour la vie de l'homme qu'elle aime, elle vit dans la peur, particulièrement quand Jack, à la tête des insurgés, occupe la poste centrale de Dublin. Les forces britanniques loyalistes mettent rapidement en déroute les combattants irlandais. Poursuivi sur les toits, Jack parvient à rejoindre Nora, il évitera miraculeusement le poteau d'exécution ce qui ne sera pas le cas de son général. Malgré la défaite, la lutte pour l'indépendance va se poursuivre.
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, 1h22
Directed by Stephen Roberts
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason, Eric Blore, Robert Armstrong, Lila Lee
Roles Mrs. Summers
Rating68% 3.4430953.4430953.4430953.4430953.443095
Wealthy murder mystery writer Paula Bradford (Jean Arthur) returns from her worldwide travels to see her former husband, surgeon Dr. Lawrence "Brad" Bradford (William Powell). He had divorced her because she was always involving him in real-life murder cases, but she wants him back. When a jockey riding the favorite dies while leading a race, she is convinced it was murder. She and Mike North (Frank M. Thomas), the horse's trainer, persuade the reluctant doctor to investigate. Brad is puzzled when he finds traces of gelatin on the corpse.
Two in the Dark, 1h14
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Gail Patrick, Alan Hale, Leslie Fenton
Roles Olga Konar
Rating62% 3.142693.142693.142693.142693.14269
Wandering around in the darkness, an amnesiac (Walter Abel) has the feeling that he's murdered someone. He reads that a theatrical producer has been killed and he thinks that he's guilty. But unemployed actress Marie Smith (Margot Grahame) he meets while wondering around the park, isn't completely convinced, so she helps him reconstruct the clues and—hopefully—track down the real killer.
Streamline Express, 1h11
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Victor Jory, Evelyn Venable, Esther Ralston, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ralph Forbes, Sidney Blackmer
Roles Mary Bradley
Rating53% 2.6705452.6705452.6705452.6705452.670545
Broadway star Patricia Wallis quits her Broadway show to run off with wealthy Fred Arnold. Her director Jimmy Hart follows them aboard the super-speed train the "Streamline Express". Meanwhile, also aboard is John Bradley and his mistress Elaine Vincent, but Bradley's wife Mary ends up on the train as well. When Elaine gives her crooked pal Gilbert Landon a diamond pendant given her by Bradley, in order to keep Landon quiet about her past, she pretends the pendant was stolen, in hopes of hiding the truth from Bradley. But Landon manages to throw suspicion on Jimmy Hart, who is masquerading as a steward. It takes several confessions by several people to resolve everyone's dilemmas.