Often confused with the British-born comic actor J. Pat O'Malley, who is the better remembered, silent dramatic film star Pat O'Malley had an enduring career that stands on its own. He was of solid Irish-American stock, born in Forest City, Pennsylvania, in 1890. A one-time railroad switchman, he also had circus experience by the time he discovered an interest in movie making. He began with the Kalem Studio in 1913 and appeared in a few Irish films before signing on with Thomas Edison's company in 1914. The following year, he married actress Lillian Wilkes, and three of their children, Eileen, Mary Katherine, and Sheila, would become actors as well. His brother Charles O'Malley was a sometime actor, appearing in westerns on occasion. His first identifiable film is The Alien (1913). He began freelancing in 1916 and from then on, appeared in scores of silents as both a rugged and romantic lead, some classic films being The Heart of Humanity (1918), My Wild Irish Rose (1922), and The Virginian (1923). He did not age well come sound pictures, and he was quickly relegated to supporting parts. He appeared in hundreds upon hundreds of bits (mostly unbilled) until 1956, when he retired. He died a decade later.
Known For
| Birth Location | Forest City, Pennsylvania, USA |
|---|---|
| Born | 1890-09-02 |
| Died | 1966-05-21 |
Movies
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
as Mr. Wilson (archive footage)
2019
Days of Wine and Roses
as Tenant (uncredited)
1963
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
as Doc Blaine
1956
A Star Is Born
as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1954
The Wild One
as Sawyer (uncredited)
1953
Small Town Girl
as Doorman
1953
The Bad and the Beautiful
as Man Outside the Club (uncredited)
1952
Everything I Have Is Yours
as Conductor (Uncredited)
1952
The Old West
as Townsman (uncredited)
1952
The Killer That Stalked New York
as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
1950
The Reckless Moment
as Bank Guard (uncredited)
1949
All the King's Men
as Politician (Uncredited)
1949
The Secret Of St. Ives
as Sergeant (uncredited)
1949
Alias Nick Beal
as Committee Man
1949
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
as Officer Jim
1949
Key Witness
as Detective Norris (uncredited)
1947
The Missing Juror
as Priest (Uncredited)
1944
One Mysterious Night
as Police Sergeant (Uncredited)
1944
The Whistler
as Police Detective in Alley (Uncredited)
1944
1944
The Racket Man
as Postman
1944
Double Up
as Jim Bowers
1943
Destroyer
as Postman
1943
Batman
as Cop
1943
Redhead from Manhattan
as Cop
1943
Mission to Moscow
as Irish-American in Montage (uncredited)
1943
Quiet Please, Murder
as Guard Killed in Library
1943
Duck Soup
as Cop
1942
Gentleman Jim
as Detective (uncredited)
1942
Deep in the Heart of Texas
as Jonathan Taylor
1942
The Glass Key
as Politician (uncredited)
1942
Thru Different Eyes
as Coroner
1942
This Gun for Hire
as Conductor (uncredited)
1942
The Great Man's Lady
as Officer Murphy (uncredited)
1942
Gang Busters
as Police Chemist Crandall
1942
Over My Dead Body
as Petie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)
1942
Blue, White, and Perfect
as Police Sergeant
1942
Steel Against the Sky
as Construction Worker (uncredited)
1941
Honky Tonk
as Party Guest
1941
Reg'lar Fellers
as Mr. Dugan Sr.
1941
Cracked Nuts
as Officer #1
1941
Law of the Range
as Mr. Howard
1941
Pals of the Pecos
as Dan Burke
1941
The Great Mr. Nobody
as Policeman
1941
Blonde Inspiration
as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
1941
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
as Editor Gunnigan
1940
The Bank Dick
as Cop (uncredited)
1940
Little Nellie Kelly
as Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
1940
East of the River
as Policeman (uncredited)
1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
as Laborer (uncredited)
1940
Lucky Cisco Kid
as Minor Role
1940
A Fugitive from Justice
as Policeman (uncredited)
1940
Girl in 313
as Bartender
1940
Rocky Mountain Rangers
as Captain Taylor
1940
Tear Gas Squad
as Patrolman
1940
Shooting High
as Lem Pritchard
1940
The House Across the Bay
as Prison Guard
1940
Castle on the Hudson
as Guard (uncredited)
1940
The Saint's Double Trouble
as Express Man (uncredited)
1940
Remember the Night
as Jury Member (uncredited)
1940
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
as Laboratory Technician
1940
Emergency Squad
as Fire Captain
1940
Invisible Stripes
as Jailhouse Lieutenant with Capt. Johnson (uncredited)
1939
The Light That Failed
as Bullock
1939
The Night of Nights
as Actor (uncredited)
1939
The Roaring Twenties
as Jailer (uncredited)
1939
The Housekeeper's Daughter
as Policeman
1939
Smashing the Money Ring
as Second Convict Custodian on Train (uncredited)
1939
The Escape
as Neighbor
1939
Dust Be My Destiny
as Bailiff (uncredited)
1939
Frontier Marshal
as Bar Patron
1939
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
as Police Guard (uncredited)
1939
Stunt Pilot
as Sheehan
1939
Five Came Back
as Mike Mulvaney (uncredited)
1939
Wolf Call
as RCMP Sergeant
1939
Women in the Wind
as Cleveland Official (uncredited)
1939
They Made Her a Spy
as Intelligence Service Man
1939
Dodge City
as Conductor (uncredited)
1939
Romance of the Redwoods
as Yerkes
1939
Let Us Live
as Captain (uncredited)
1939
Sergeant Madden
as Police Sergeant
1939
Secret Service of the Air
as Guard Cooper
1939
Persons in Hiding
as Deputy Driver (uncredited)
1939
The Phantom Creeps
as AMI Chief
1939
Always Goodbye
as Cop (uncredited)
1938
He Couldn't Say No
as Policeman in Car
1938
Love on a Budget
as Townsman
1938
Alcatraz Island
as Prison Guard (uncredited)
1937
Music for Madame
as Policeman (Uncredited)
1937
Ever Since Eve
as Police Officer (uncredited)
1937
The Great Hospital Mystery
as Detective
1937
Beloved Enemy
as Patrick Callahan
1936
Wanted: Jane Turner
as Joe - Lansing's Assistant (uncredited)
1936
Hollywood Boulevard
as Pat O'Malley - Pago Pago Patron
1936
Crash Donovan
as Patrolman (uncredited)
1936
36 Hours to Kill
as G-Man
1936
High Tension
as Ship's Mate
1936
The Big Noise
as Boyle, Policeman with Kerrigan (uncredited)
1936
Trouble for Two
as Purser (Uncredited)
1936
Champagne Charlie
as Ship's Officer
1936
Exclusive Story
as Third Officer (uncredited)
1936
Paddy O'Day
as Immigration Officer Tom Wilson
1936
We're Only Human
as Police Officer Jordan
1935
Heir to Trouble
as Mining Engineer
1935
The Fighting Marines
as Capt. Grayson [Ch. 1]
1935
His Family Tree
as Seated Pub Sailor
1935
Special Agent
as Roark (uncredited)
1935
Public Hero Number 1
as Federal Agent (uncredited)
1935
The Drunkard
as First Drunk
1935
The Perfect Clue
as Police Officer
1935
Girl in Danger
as Police Sgt. Rollins (uncredited)
1934
The Crime Doctor
as Detective (uncredited)
1934
Love Past Thirty
as Lon Burt
1934
Pirate Treasure
as John Craig
1934
Perils of Pauline
as Tim Sullivan
1933
A Man of Sentiment
as Officer Ryan
1933
Before Dawn
as Detective Brady (uncredited)
1933
Riot Squad
as Det. Bob Larkin
1933
Laughing at Life
as Detective Agency Official
1933
I Love That Man
as Prison Interne
1933
The Whirlwind
as Pat Patrick
1933
Mystery of the Wax Museum
as Plainclothesman (Uncredited)
1933
Parachute Jumper
as Pilot (uncredited)
1933
Frisco Jenny
as Policeman Pat O'Hoolihan
1933
Sundown Rider
as Lafe Armstrong
1932
The Penal Code
as Sergeant Detective W. J. Bender
1932
Call Her Savage
as Fireman (Uncredited)
1932
Those We Love
as Daley
1932
Klondike
as Burke
1932
Exposure
as Van Avery - City Editor
1932
1932
Speed Madness
as McCarey
1932
Attorney for the Defense
as Dr. Strong
1932
High Speed
as Paul Whipple
1932
The Reckoning
as Bob
1932
The Shadow of the Eagle
as Ames
1932
The Fighting Marshal
as Deputy Ed Myers
1931
The Lightning Warrior
as Sheriff A. W. Brown
1931
Anybody's Blonde
as Reporter
1931
Night Life in Reno
as District Attorney
1931
The Sky Spider
as Jim Morgan
1931
Homicide Squad
as Man
1931
1931
Mothers Cry
as Frank Williams
1930
The Fall Guy
as Charles Newton
1930
The Man I Love
as D.J. McCarthy
1929
Alibi
as Detective Sgt. Tommy Glennon
1929
Perch of the Devil
as Gregory Compton
1927
Spangles
as Dick Hale
1926
My Old Dutch
as Joe Brown
1926
The Midnight Sun
as Grand Duke Sergius of Russia
1926
1925
Proud Flesh
as Patrick O'Malley
1925
Let Women Alone
as Tom Benham
1925
The Mine with the Iron Door
as Hugh Edwards
1924
Bread
as Roy Beardsley
1924
The Fighting American
as Bill Pendleton
1924
The Beauty Prize
as George Brady
1924
Happiness
as Fermoy MacDonough
1924
Fools Highway
as Mike Kildare
1924
The Man from Brodney's
as Robert Browne
1923
The Eternal Struggle
as Bucky O'Harra
1923
Cause for Divorce
as Howard Metcliffe
1923
The Virginian
as Steve
1923
Slippy McGee
as Lawrence Mayne
1923
Brass
as Harry Baldwin
1923
The Last Hour
as Philip Logan
1923
A Game Chicken
as Rush Thompson
1922
1921
Bob Hampton of Placer
as Lt. Brant
1921
Dinty
as Jack North
1920
The Breath of the Gods
as T. Caraway Dodge
1920
Go and Get It
as Kirk Connelly
1920
The Blooming Angel
as Chester Framm
1920
False Evidence
as Richard MacTavish (as Patrick O'Malley)
1919
The Red Glove
as Kern Thodes (early chapters)
1919
The Heart of Humanity
as Clancy
1918
The Prussian Cur
as Jimmie O'Grady
1918
The Love That Lives
as Jimmy
1917
The Tell-Tale Step
as Hugh Graham
1917
The Law of the North
as Cpl. John Emerson
1917
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Sybil Vane
1916
1915
On Dangerous Paths
as Roger Sterritt
1915
1915
McQuade of the Traffic Squad
as Pat McQuade
1915
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