1. Arthur Joseph O'Connell was an American stage, film and television actor, who achieved prominence in character roles in the 1950s.
19 Facts About Arthur O'Connell
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Arthur O'Connell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for both Picnic and Anatomy of a Murder.
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Arthur O'Connell's father died when O'Connell was two, and his mother when he was 12.
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Arthur O'Connell was the youngest of four siblings: William, Kathleen, and Juliette.
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Arthur O'Connell went into acting in 1929, landing a role in summer stock at the Frankin Stock Company in Dorchester, Massachusetts, playing a role in The Patsy.
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Arthur O'Connell costarred in two Leon Errol short subjects as Errol's conniving brother-in-law.
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Arthur O'Connell entered the US Army in 1945 and served in the Signal Corps during World War II.
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Arthur O'Connell recreated the Bevans role in the 1955 film version, opposite Rosalind Russell as the schoolteacher, earning an Oscar nomination.
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Arthur O'Connell frequently appeared as a father in movies starring teen idols such as Elvis Presley, Pat Boone and Fabian.
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Arthur O'Connell frequently played alcoholics, and consulted members of Alcoholics Anonymous in preparation for one of his roles.
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In 1959, Arthur O'Connell played the part of Chief Petty Officer Sam Tostin, engine room chief of the fictional World War II submarine USS Sea Tiger, opposite Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in Operation Petticoat.
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In 1961, Arthur O'Connell played the role of Grandpa Clarence Beebe in the children's film Misty, the screen adaptation of Marguerite Henry's story Misty of Chincoteague.
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On Christmas Day, 1962, Arthur O'Connell was cast as Clayton Dodd in the episode "Green, Green Hills" of the western series Empire, starring Richard Egan as the rancher Jim Redigo.
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In 1967, Arthur O'Connell co-starred with Monte Markham in The Second Hundred Years, playing the aging son of a gold miner who was frozen for a hundred years in Alaska.
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Arthur O'Connell worked in commercials, playing a friendly pharmacist as a spokesperson for Crest.
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Arthur O'Connell made his final film appearance in The Hiding Place, portraying a Dutch watch-maker who hides Jews during World War II.
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In 1962, Arthur O'Connell married Ann Hall Dunlop of Washington, DC, widow of William Laird Dunlop III.
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On May 18,1981, Arthur O'Connell died of Alzheimer's disease at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles.
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Arthur O'Connell was interred at Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York.