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).
Filmography
Sunset Boulevard
They Were Expendable
Anchors Aweigh
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Public Enemy
Mystery of the Wax Museum
A Night at the Opera
Undercurrent
Easter Parade
A Star Is Born
Desire
Lady for a Day
High Wall
The Last Train from Madrid
The Thin Man Goes Home
Blonde Venus
Penthouse
The Harvey Girls
The Hucksters
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Taxi!
Dance, Girl, Dance
Weary River
Made for Each Other
The Hoodlum Saint
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Midnight Mary
Till the Clouds Roll By
The Big House
Gabriel Over the White House