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Arthur OConnell (March 29, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in films (starting with a small role in Citizen Kane) in 1941 and television programs (mostly guest appearances). Among his screen appearances were Picnic, Anatomy of a Murder, and as the watch-maker who hides Jews during WWII in The Hiding Place.A veteran vaudevillian, OConnell, from New York City, made his legitimate stage debut in the mid 1930s, at which time he fell within the orbit of Orson Welles Mercury Theatre. Welles cast OConnell in the tiny role of a reporter in the closing scenes of Citizen Kane (1941), a film often referred to as OConnells film debut, though in fact he had already appeared in Freshman Year (1939) and had costarred in two Leon Errol short subjects as Leons conniving brother-in-law.After numerous small movie parts, OConnell returned to Broadway, where he appeared as the erstwhile middle-aged swain of a spinsterish schoolteacher in Picnic - a role hed recreate in the 1956 film version, earning an Oscar nomination in the process. Later the jaded looking OConnell was frequently cast as fortyish losers and alcoholics; in the latter capacity he appeared as James Stewarts boozy attorney mentor in Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and the result was another Oscar nomination. In 1962 OConnell portrayed the father of Elvis Presleys character in the motion picture Follow That Dream, and in 1964 in the Presley-picture Kissin Cousins.OConnell continued appearing in choice character parts on both TV and films during the 1960s, but avoided a regular television series, holding out until he could be assured top billing. He appeared as Joseph Baylor in the 1964 episode A Little Anger Is a Good Thing on the ABC medical drama about psychiatry, Breaking Point. The actor accepted the part of a man who discovers that his 99-year-old father has been frozen in an iceberg on the 1967 sitcom The Second Hundred Years, assuming hed be billed first per the producers agreement. Instead, top billing went to newcomer Monte Markham in the dual role of OConnells father and his son. OConnell accepted the demotion to second billing as well as could be expected, but he never again trusted the word of any Hollywood executive.Ill health forced OConnell to significantly reduce his acting appearances in the mid 70s, but the actor stayed busy as a commercial spokesman, a friendly pharmacist who was a spokesperson for Crest toothpaste. At the time of his death from Alzheimers disease in California in May 1981, OConnell was appearing solely in these commercials, by his own choice.OConnell was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York.Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur OConnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Col. Donald Reid
Film 1966
Interne (uncredited)
Film 1942
Virgil Blessing
Film 1956
Grandpa Clarence Beebe
Film 1961
Gordon Walker
Film 1956
Clint Stark
Film 1964
Bill Hatfield
Film 1972
Sam Beasley
Film 1958
Arbuckle "Buck" Fleming
Film 1967
Howard Bevans
Film 1955
Carter
Film 1948
Intern (uncredited)
Film 1940
Fred Rose
Film 1964
Mark Jenkins
Film 1956
Mr. Fenley, Hotel Engineer
Film 1973
Sgt. Karl Rodermill
Film 1961
Assistant Director Jensen
Film 1948
Mr. Homer Hinkley
Film 1956
John
Film 1971
Self (from Bus Stop [1956]) (archive footage)
Film 1986
Judge Hockstadter
Film 1967
Dan Ryan
Film 1962
Goldie Shores
Film 1942
Darius Green III
Film 1965
Bill Tobin
Film 1958
Larry Wise
Film 1969
Sgt. Shaeffer (uncredited)
Film 1948
Jed Bruce
Film 1957
John, the Chaplain
Film 1972
Simmons
Film 1942
Chief Motor Machinist's Mate Sam Tostin
Film 1959
Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Film 1948
Link Hall (uncredited)
Film 1950
Reporter at Wedding (uncredited)
Film 1940
Court Clerk
Film 1940
Aaron McKinney
Film 1959
New Recruit (uncredited)
Film 1942
Fourth Page
Film 1940
Cameraman (uncredited)
Film 1940
Moroni's Parking Attendant
Film 1940
First Reporter
Film 1948
Reporter (uncredited)
Film 1941
Pharmacist Mate
Film 1942
Solomon Baumgarten
Film 1957
Book Salesman
Film 1940
Henry Gills
Film 1974
Jim Brewster
Film 1951
Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1963
Phil
Film 1940
Photographer (uncredited)
Film 1942
actor 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1991
Col. Rousch
Film 1957
Dr. Stuart Alexander
Tv 1963
Tv 1960
Tv 1960
Tv 1971
Tv 1952
William Lawrence
Tv 1963
Tv 1969
Tv 1963
Tv 1970
Tv 1972
Tv 1971
Tv 1967
Tv 1962
Tv 1963
Tv 1965
Tv 1970
Tv 1970
Tv 1957
Tv 1955
Tv 1972
Tv 1967
Peter Capples
Tv 1961
Self
Tv 1953
Tv 1954
Chief Owen Huston
Tv 1972
Charlie Sherwin
Tv 1968
Tv 1957
Dr. Samuel Hubert
Tv 1959
