Edmond O'Brien

 Edmond O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985)

O'Brien was an actor who appeared in more than 100 films from the 1940's to the 1970's, often playing character parts. He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe for his supporting role in The Barefoot Contessa (1954), as well as a second Golden Globe and another Academy Award nomination for Seven Days in May (1964). His other notable films include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The Killers (1946), A Double Life (1947), White Heat (1949), D.O.A. (1949), The Hitch-Hiker (1953), Julius Caesar (1953), 1984 (1956), The Girl Can't Help It (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1961), Fantastic Voyage (1966), and The Wild Bunch (1969) . O'Brien appeared extensively in television, including the 1957 live 90-minute broadcast on Playhouse 90 of The Comedian, a drama written by Rod Serling. He also had appearances on Target: The Corruptors!, The Eleventh Hour, Breaking Point and Mission: Impossible.

O'Brien worked steadily throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. However his memory problems were beginning to take their toll. A heart attack meant he had to drop out of The Glass Bottom Boat (1966). His last works, both in 1974, were an episode of the television series Police Story and main role in the film 99 and 44/100% Dead. In the late 1970s, He was married twice, to actress Nancy Kelly and later actress Olga San Juan, and had three children with his second wife. O'Brien fell ill with Alzheimer's disease. He died on May 9, 1985, at St. Erne's Sanitarium in Inglewood, California, of complications from the disease at age 69. He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.