Robert Emmett O'Connor
Robert Emmett O'Connor (March 18, 1885 – September 4, 1962) was an American film actor. He appeared in 204 films between 1919 and 1950. He is probably best known as the warmhearted bootlegger Paddy Ryan in The Public Enemy (1931) and as Detective Sergeant Henderson pursuing the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera (1935). He also appeared as Jonesy (the older Paramount gate guard) in Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, as well as made a cameo appearance at the very beginning and very end of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short Who Killed Who? (1943).
Filmography (137 Appearances)
Sunset Boulevard
Easter Parade
Tenth Avenue Angel
Merton of the Movies
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
The Hucksters
High Barbaree
Trail Street
Till the Clouds Roll By
Undercurrent
Courage of Lassie
Boys' Ranch
The Hoodlum Saint
Up Goes Maisie
The Harvey Girls
Adventure
They Were Expendable
The Great American Mug
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
A Gun in His Hand
Anchors Aweigh
The Clock
Main Street After Dark
The Thin Man Goes Home
Gentle Annie
Meet Me in St. Louis
Return from Nowhere
Barbary Coast Gent
Rationing
Shoe Shine Boy
Whistling in Brooklyn
Best Foot Forward
Swing Shift Maisie
Who Killed Who?
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Air Raid Wardens
Slightly Dangerous
The Human Comedy
The Greatest Gift
The Omaha Trail
Jackass Mail
Maisie Gets Her Man
Inflation
No Time for Comedy
Dance, Girl, Dance
A Fugitive from Justice
Hot Steel
I Take This Oath
Double Alibi
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Streets of New York
Sergeant Madden
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Made for Each Other
Professor Beware
Boy of the Streets
Wells Fargo
Trapped by G-Men
Super-Sleuth
New Faces of 1937
The Last Train from Madrid
The Frame-Up
A Star Is Born
Waikiki Wedding
Park Avenue Logger
The Crime Nobody Saw
Girl Overboard
We Who Are About to Die
Sinner Take All
Jailbreak
Desire
At Sea Ashore
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Lone Wolf Returns
White Lies
A Night at the Opera
Waterfront Lady
Diamond Jim
Stolen Harmony
Star of Midnight
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
A Wicked Woman
Return of the Terror
Bottoms Up
The Big Shakedown
Lady for a Day
Penthouse
The Big Brain
Don't Bet on Love
Midnight Mary
Bed of Roses
Picture Snatcher
Gabriel Over the White House
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Frisco Jenny
The Kid from Spain
Blonde Venus
Blessed Event
American Madness
Week-End Marriage
The Dark Horse
Night World
The Arm of the Law
Play Girl
The Big Timer
The Beast of the City
Taxi!
Two Kinds of Women
Reckless Living
Fanny Foley Herself
The Public Defender
Three Who Loved
The Public Enemy
The Single Sin
Paid
Man to Man
Up the River
Shooting Straight
Our Blushing Brides
The Big House
The Big Fight
Alias French Gertie
Framed
In the Next Room
The Isle of Lost Ships
Smiling Irish Eyes
Weary River
The Booster
Freedom of the Press
The Singing Fool
Four Walls
Dressed to Kill
The Noose
Tin Gods
Drink Hearty
His Royal Slyness