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Caption: Still of James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Jerome Cowan, Ann Sheridan, George Tobias and Helen Vinson in Torrid Zone (1940)
About William Joseph Patrick O'Brien
Actor, Soundtrack, Producer
Born: November 11, 1899
Star sign: Scorpio
Height: 5' 11" (1.8 m)
Known for: Some Like It Hot (1959), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Ragtime (1981), Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Source: IMDB
Although he came to be called "Hollywood's Irishman in Residence"--and, along with good friends James Cagney, Allen Jenkins, Frank McHugh and a few others were called "The Irish Mafia"--and he often played Irish immigrants, Pat O'Brien was US-born and -bred. As a young boy the devoutly Roman Catholic O'Brien considered entering the seminary to ...
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