
Robert Emmett O'Connor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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).
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American Madness
7

Little Lord Fauntleroy
6.7

A Star Is Born
7.119

Blonde Venus
6.816

Penthouse
6.7

Framed
5.3

Lady for a Day
7

Blessed Event
6.5

Air Raid Wardens
7.1

A Night at the Opera
7.438

Return of the Terror
6

The Mysterious Mr. Wong
4.125

The Big House
6.705

The Booster
0

The Public Enemy
7.237

Picture Snatcher
7

Midnight Mary
6.773

Whistling in Brooklyn
6.3

The Dark Horse
7.2

The Big Shakedown
5.6

The Kid from Spain
6.556

Trapped by G-Men
0

The Crime Nobody Saw
5

Don't Bet on Love
0

Reckless Living
3

The Singing Fool
5

Rationing
3

Boys' Ranch
6.5

Park Avenue Logger
6

Boy of the Streets
5

The Big Timer
3.5

Up the River
5.8

Drink Hearty
0

The Arm of the Law
4.5

The Hucksters
6.9

Adventure
6.2

Till the Clouds Roll By
5.7

Three Who Loved
5.4

Anchors Aweigh
6.8

Night World
6.929

The Big Fight
3

Two Kinds of Women
5

The Frame-Up
6

Shooting Straight
6

Desire
6.9

Frisco Jenny
6.3

Man to Man
5.7

The Single Sin
0

Alias French Gertie
5

Weary River
5.667

The Lone Wolf Returns
5.9

At Sea Ashore
0

Gentle Annie
5.2

We Who Are About to Die
6.8

Wells Fargo
5.154

Waikiki Wedding
5.455

New Faces of 1937
4

Bottoms Up
4.75

Stolen Harmony
6

The Public Defender
6

Fanny Foley Herself
0

Made for Each Other
6.1

Professor Beware
6.1

Sergeant Madden
6

Star of Midnight
6

Main Street After Dark
4.8

The Lone Wolf Strikes
6.3

Meet Me in St. Louis
6.982

The Noose
7

Who Killed Who?
7.2

Tenth Avenue Angel
6.1

The Human Comedy
6.3

I Take This Oath
4.3

Merton of the Movies
6.8

In the Next Room
0

Jailbreak
6.4

The Hoodlum Saint
5.2

Sunset Boulevard
8.3

Waterfront Lady
4

No Time for Comedy
5.4

Dance, Girl, Dance
6.4

Dressed to Kill
0

Diamond Jim
6

Jackass Mail
7

Sinner Take All
4.8

The Harvey Girls
6.5

The Great American Mug
6.5

Barbary Coast Gent
4.6

A Wicked Woman
5

Double Alibi
4.5

Courage of Lassie
5.7

Taxi!
6.8

His Royal Slyness
5.8

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
6.6

Paid
6.8

Easter Parade
7

The Clock
7.2

The Omaha Trail
7

Our Blushing Brides
5.9

Mystery of the Wax Museum
6.5

Bed of Roses
6.3

Week-End Marriage
6

Play Girl
5.2

They Were Expendable
6.6

Gabriel Over the White House
6.9

The Beast of the City
5.9

Super-Sleuth
5

Shoe Shine Boy
7

Slightly Dangerous
6

Girl Overboard
0

Return from Nowhere
5

The Greatest Gift
7

Tin Gods
0

A Fugitive from Justice
3.5

Best Foot Forward
6

A Gun in His Hand
5.714

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
5.5

Undercurrent
5.8

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
2

Inflation
5

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
5.7

Freedom of the Press
0

Four Walls
7

Streets of New York
4.833

Swing Shift Maisie
6.5

Maisie Gets Her Man
6.5

Up Goes Maisie
6.7

Hot Steel
0

The Isle of Lost Ships
0

Smiling Irish Eyes
0

You Can't Get Away with Murder
5.6

High Barbaree
5.5

The Last Train from Madrid
4.7

The Thin Man Goes Home
7.1