George O'Hara

George O'Hara (born George Bolger, February 22, 1899 – October 16, 1966) was an American motion picture actor and screenwriter of the silent film era.

Biography Born in New York City and raised in Hollywood, California, George O'Hara began his acting career under contract as a performer for early Hollywood director Mack Sennett. Sennett was immediately charmed by the handsome, cleft-chinned young actor and saw O'Hara as a potentially popular matinee idol. O'Hara's acting career received an early boost when Sennett cast the young actor in the commercially successful 1920 romantic film Love, Honor, and Behave opposite the popular silent film actress Marie Prevost. In his most popular serial, Fighting Blood, O'Hara was cast as a boxer; a role well-suited to O'Hara, who in his free time was a boxing aficionado and moderately successful in the amateur lightweight division of the sport.

O'Hara never again achieved the success he had attained in his early career and spent the next several decades playing as an extra in often uncredited roles. O'Hara died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, in 1966.

Partial filmography

Love, Honor and Behave (1920) - Newlywed Groom A Small Town Idol (1921) - Cameraman Queenie (1921) - Vivian Van Winkle The Crossroads of New York (1922) - Michael Flint Shirley of the Circus (1922) - Pierre Fighting Blood (1923) - Gale Galen Six Second Smith A Midsummer Night's Scream (1923) Listen Lester (1924) - Jack Griffin Darwin Was Right (1924) - Robert Lee The Sea Beast (1926) - Derek Ceeley Casey of the Coast Guard (1926) - Ensign John Casey Why Girls Go Back Home (1926) - John Ross Bigger Than Barnum's (1926) - Robert Blandim Going the Limit (1926) - Gordon Emery The False Alarm (1926) - Tim Casey The Timid Terror (1926) - Talbot Trent Is That Nice? (1926) - Ralph Tanner California or Bust (1927) - Jeff Daggett Burnt Fingers (1927) - Dick Yours to Command (1927) - Robert Duane Ladies Beware (1927) - Jack O'Diamonds Pirates of the Pines (1928) - John Markham A Single Man (1929, writer) Side Street (1929, writer) Jesse James (1939) - Teller (uncredited) News Is Made at Night (1939) - Usher (uncredited) The Honeymoon's Over (1939) - Elevator Operator (uncredited) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - Clerk (uncredited) The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941) - Melvyn Cadet Girl (1941) - Waiter (uncredited) Remember the Day (1941) - Photographer (uncredited) The Dolly Sisters (1945) - Frank Tinny (uncredited) When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948) - Stagehand (uncredited) (final film role)