George O'hara Silent Film Actor Original and 50 similar items

Authentic, vintage promotional photograph of silent film actor George O'Hara with printed signature. Measures 5" x 7", on textured stock. Condition: This is an original photograph, not a reproduction. It is in very good condition. Additional Information: George O'Hara (February 22, 1899 - October 16, 1966) was an American motion picture actor and screenwriter of the silent film era. Raised in Hollywood, 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. O'Hara was most popular with the public when starring in two-reel action and adventure serials of the 1920s, such as The Pacemakers and Casey of the Coast Guard. 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 afficienado and moderately successful in the amateur lightweight division of the sport. Throughout the 1920s, O'Hara continued working as an actor and became a quite popular matinee idol. He costarred with John Barrymore and Dolores Costello in a silent film adaptation of Moby-Dick called The Sea Beast playing Barrymore's evil half-brother.