Known for Acting
Una O'Connor (born Agnes Teresa McGlade) was an Irish-American actress who worked extensively in theatre before becoming a character actress in film and in television. She often portrayed comical wives, housekeepers and servants.
Born
October 22, 1880
Died
February 4, 1959 (age 78)
Birthplace
Belfast, Ireland, UK [now Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK]
Filmography
65 films, 7 shows
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · 1h 56m
country: United States
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
Ha da venì... don Calogero!
1952 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.
Studio One: Wuthering Heights
1950 · 1h
country: United States
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
Adventures of Don Juan
1948 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under threat from sinister forces.
Fighting Father Dunne
1948 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Ivy
1947 · 1h 39m
country: United States
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
Banjo
1947 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Family drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she's sent to live with her aunt in Boston.
Lost Honeymoon
1947 · 1h 11m
country: United States
An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.
Unexpected Guest
1947 · 1h 1m
country: United States
At the reading of his late cousin's will, California learns the estate will be divied among whoever remains of the seven relatives. With one already dead, another immediately murdered, and the Lawyer telling them the ranch is almost worthless, Hoppy investigates.
The Return of Monte Cristo
1946 · 1h 31m
country: United States
The grandson of Edmond Dantes was cheated out of his fortune and falsely imprisoned, only to escape and wreak vengeance on his betrayers by assuming the guise of the Count of Monte Cristo. Just like grandpa, the younger Dantes is framed by a trio of connivers and shipped off to Devil's Island. Escaping with a fellow convict, political radical Bombelles, Dantes adopts the bearded guise of an elderly man in order to destroy his enemies and reclaim his birthright.
Child of Divorce
1946 · 1h 2m
country: United States
An eight-year-old girl is an unwilling and disturbed witness of parental quarrels in her home, and when the parents finally secure a divorce, the judge decrees that the young girl live with her mother for eight months and her father the other four months. The divided life affects her both mentally and physically.
Of Human Bondage
1946 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.
Cluny Brown
1946 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
The Bells of St. Mary's
1945 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
Christmas in Connecticut
1945 · 1h 42m
country: United States
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
My Pal, Wolf
1944 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A lonely child, neglected by her parents, encounters and befriends a German Shepherd, but she's unaware the animal is a military dog being trained for service in WW2.
The Canterville Ghost
1944 · 1h 35m
country: United States
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
Government Girl
1943 · 1h 33m
country: United States
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
Holy Matrimony
1943 · 1h 27m
country: United States
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
This Land Is Mine
1943 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Forever and a Day
1943 · 1h 44m
country: United States
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Random Harvest
1942 · 2h 5m
country: United States
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
My Favorite Spy
1942 · 1h 26m
country: United States
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Always in My Heart
1942 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.
Three Girls About Town
1941 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Kisses for Breakfast
1941 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife.
Her First Beau
1941 · 1h 17m
country: United States
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
The Strawberry Blonde
1941 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
The Sea Hawk
1940 · 2h 7m
country: United States
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Lillian Russell
1940 · 2h 7m
country: United States
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
It All Came True
1940 · 1h 37m
country: United States
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
His Brother’s Keeper
His Brother’s Keeper
1940 · 1h 10m
country: United Kingdom
“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.
All Women Have Secrets
1939 · 1h 6m
country: United States
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
We Are Not Alone
1939 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
The Moon in the Yellow River
The Moon in the Yellow River
1938 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Television broadcast of The Moon in the Yellow River by Denis Johnston.
The Return of the Frog
1938 · 1h 13m
country: United Kingdom
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
Call It a Day
1937 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
Personal Property
1937 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
The Plough and the Stars
1936 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
Lloyd's of London
1936 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936 · 1h 42m
country: United States
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.
Rose Marie
1936 · 1h 53m
country: United States
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.
The Perfect Gentleman
1935 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
Thunder in the Night
1935 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a message from a blackmailer, threatening her husband. When the blackmailer winds up dead, Madalaine appears to be the most likely suspect. Torok, however, knows the case is more complicated than it seems and dedicates himself to revealing the truth behind the mystery.
The Informer
1935 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.
David Copperfield
1935 · 2h 10m
country: United States
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
Father Brown, Detective
1934 · 1h 8m
country: United States
After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Later Flambeau sends notes to both Leopold Fischer, who unknown to him is Evelyn's uncle, and Father Brown, in which he vows he will steal from them the ten diamonds that comprise the "Flying Star." Flambeau intends to give these diamonds to Evelyn. Father Brown, whose gold cross contains some of the Flying Star diamonds, is determined to meet Flambeau before he is arrested, to reform and redeem his soul.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
Chained
1934 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
Stingaree
1934 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
All Men Are Enemies
1934 · 1h 18m
country: Unknown
A British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the outbreak of World War I.
Orient Express
1934 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople.
The Poor Rich
1934 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
The Invisible Man
1933 · 1h 11m
country: United States
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together. While Mary struggles to earn respect because of her gender, Don gets caught up in his ambitions for a bigger life.
Horse Play
1933 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle throw him off their property because he is a poor bumbler. One day a stranger buys Slim's ranch for one million dollars because the land contains valuable minerals. Slim and his partner, Andy Jones, are overwhelmed by their new found wealth, but it does not help to soothe Slim's hurt feelings when he finds out that Angelica has gone to England to stay with her other aunt. He decides to bring her his horse, "Cynthia Ann," as a gift, and with Andy and the horse, he sets sail.
Timbuctoo
Timbuctoo
1933 · 1h 12m
country: Unknown
'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)
Pleasure Cruise
1933 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
Cavalcade
1933 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
Murder!
1930 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
Dark Red Roses
1929 · 1h 3m
country: United Kingdom
David Cardew, a talented sculptor, lives an idyllic life in the English countryside with his wife, Laura, and their two children. But his happiness spoils as he becomes increasingly fixated on the idea that Laura is having an affair with a young cellist, Anton Falk. The three attend a fête where David watches Anton and Laura during a ballet about brutal and violent revenge - and his obsession begins to take an even darker turn....