Pat O'Malley

Pat O'Malley was an American actor who started in vaudeville and on the stage before launching a prolific film career at sixteen. Born in Forest City, Pennsylvania, he gained circus experience before he became interested in motion pictures, and his early screen work was with Kalem and Edison Studios. Between 1918 and 1927 he acted in many silent films, sometimes as a leading man and sometimes in character roles, among them The Heart of Humanity (1918), My Wild Irish Rose, The Virginian, and an adaptation of the bestseller Brothers Under the Skin. When sound arrived his career declined, and he moved into supporting parts and bit roles, appearing in roughly four hundred films. He also guest starred in the early CBS musical series Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, and into the early 1960s he was still called on for television shows including The Twilight Zone and films including Days of Wine and Roses. He died in 1966.