Cast: Pat O'Brien

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Pat O'Brien. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Some Like It Hot

1959 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Jack Lemmon · Tony Curtis · George Raft

Plot Two men (Lemmon and Curtis) hide from the mafia in an all girls band after they witness a murder, and find it hard to keep their cover as women when...

8.3

81K votes

8.3

81K votes

Angels With Dirty Faces

1938 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Pat O'Brien · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan

Plot Gangster Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) returns from prison to make a name for himself in the crime world. He's soon discovered by the Dead End Kids, who idolize him, and...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

The Last Hurrah

1958 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Spencer Tracy · Jeffrey Hunter · Dianne Foster · Basil Rathbone

Plot An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

American Madness

1932 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Walter Huston · Pat O'Brien · Kay Johnson · Constance Cummings

Plot It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. One night, Dickson's...

7.1

564 votes

7.1

564 votes

Ragtime

1981 · Movie · 155 min. · United States

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Howard E. Rollins Jr. · Moses Gunn · James Cagney · Brad Dourif

Plot Based on the acclaimed and popular E.L. Doctorow novel, RAGTIME tells the intricate story of four New York families--three of which are fictional--at the turn of the 20th century, each...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Ceiling Zero

1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast James Cagney · Pat O'Brien · June Travis · Stuart Erwin

Plot Old pals Jake Lee, Tex Clarke and Dizzy Davis flew together in the Army during World War I. Almost twenty years later, Jake is the manager of the Newark, New...

6.7

112 votes

6.7

112 votes

The Front Page

1931 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Pat O'Brien · Mary Brian · Edward Everett Horton

Plot Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame...

6.7

295 votes

6.7

295 votes

The People Against O'Hara

1951 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Spencer Tracy · Pat O'Brien · Diana Lynn · John Hodiak

Plot James Curtayne (Spencer Tracy) has retired from law but he returns to defend John O'Hara (James Arness) on a murder charge. Curtayne's drinking and rustiness result in O'Hara's being found...

6.6

294 votes

6.6

294 votes

The Great O'Malley

1937 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Pat O'Brien · Sybil Jason · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan

Plot Officer O'Malley arrests John Phillips for a traffic violation and costs him a chance at a good job. Phillips has a wife and crippled child, so he commits robbery and...

6.5

68 votes

6.5

68 votes

Castle on the Hudson

1940 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast John Garfield · Ann Sheridan · Pat O'Brien · Burgess Meredith

Plot Mobster Tommy Gordon isn't worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison because his political pals have promised him a quick parole. A troublesome prisoner, he finally concedes that his...

6.4

67 votes

6.4

67 votes

Bombshell

1933 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Jean Harlow · Lee Tracy · Frank Morgan · Franchot Tone

Plot Lola Burns is at the top of the pile in Hollywood. But life ain't easy, what with her father and brother always hanging around for handouts, and devious studio publicity...

6.4

43 votes

6.4

43 votes

Riffraff

1947 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Pat O'Brien · Anne Jeffreys · Walter Slezak · Percy Kilbride

Plot A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil-location maps;...

6.3

31 votes

6.3

31 votes

Torrid Zone

1940 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast James Cagney · Ann Sheridan · Pat O'Brien · Andy Devine

Plot Banana Company executive Steve Case on a Caribean plantation group tries to convince his former co-worker Nick Butler to take over the plantation No 7. But he is on his...

6.2

39 votes

6.2

39 votes

Air Mail

1932 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Gloria Stuart · Pat O'Brien · Slim Summerville

Plot Level headed Mike Miller runs Desert Airport, an air mail base full of daring young pilots risking their lives to get the mail through-regardless of the weather. Following the death...

6.2

60 votes

6.2

60 votes

Virtue

1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Carole Lombard · Pat O'Brien · Ward Bond · Shirley Grey

Plot A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver--who first meet when she stiffs him for the fare--but other matters keep getting in...

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

The Boy with Green Hair

1948 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Pat O'Brien · Robert Ryan · Barbara Hale · Dean Stockwell

Plot Peter Frye, typical American boy, is orphaned when his parents are caught in the London Blitz. He is not told of their fate, but shuttled from one selfish relative to...

6.2

441 votes

6.2

441 votes

Crack-Up

1946 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

6.2

65 votes

6.2

65 votes

San Quentin

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Pat O'Brien · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan · Barton MacLane

Plot Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries...

Max

6.1

255 votes

6.1

255 votes

Hell's House

1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Howard Higgin

Cast Bette Davis · Pat O'Brien · Junior Durkin · Frank Coghlan Jr.

Plot Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to...

6.0

31 votes

6.0

31 votes

His Butler's Sister

1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Deanna Durbin · Franchot Tone · Pat O'Brien · Akim Tamiroff

Plot A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.

6.0

37 votes

6.0

37 votes