“(w)hat these teachers encouraged above all was getting your tools ready – your body, your voice, your speech.”
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Edmond O'Brien
Eamon Joseph O'Brien, known professionally as Edmond O'Brien, was an American actor of stage, screen, and television, and film director. His career spanned almost 40 years, and he won an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two Photoplay Awards, and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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entertainment · American actor (1915–1985) · film actor · stage actor · television actor · actor · film producer · film director · also Edmond O'Brien, O'Brien
Born 10 September 1915 · Died 9 May 1985 · Q119935
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1985· 1 entry
Died 1985-05-09.
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1974· 1 entry
Were an episode of the television series Police Story and main role in the film 99 and 44/100% Dead
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1971· 1 entry
Was hospitalized with a "slight pulmonary condition
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1959· 1 entry
Co-starred in the World War II drama Up Periscope and the French-Australian melodrama The Restless and the Damned
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1958· 1 entry
Directed and starred in a TV drama written by his brother, "The Town That Slept With the Lights On", about two Lancaster murders that so frightened the community that residents began sleeping with their lights on
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1957· 2 entries
O'Brien recorded a spoken-word album of The Red Badge of Courage (Caedmon TC 1040)
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O'Brien earned the second lead in the Western The Big Land, film noir Stopover Tokyo, and the second lead in the musical drama Sing, Boy, Sing and lead in the drama The World Was His Jury in 1958
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Barefoot Contessa (1955).
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1954· 1 entry
Mankiewicz cast O'Brien as press agent Oscar Muldoon in The Barefoot Contessa, earning him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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1951· 1 entry
Was in a well-publicized brawl with Serge Rubinstein at a cafe
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1949· 1 entry
3,147 members of the Young Women's League of America, a national charitable organisation devoted to single living, voted that O'Brien had more "male magnetism" than any other man in America
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1944· 1 entry
With O'Brien reprising his stage performance and Judy Holliday co-starring
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1940· 1 entry
O'Brien performed with Ruth Chatterton in John Van Druten's Leave Her to Heaven on Broadway
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1915· 1 entry
Born 1915-09-10.
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