Pat O'Brien - A Quiet Christmas
Who's Pat O'Brien? (For those who know, please feel free to skip ahead). Pat O'Brien was an actor whose work for Warner Brothers back in the 1930s and 1940s is legendary. He appeared eight times together with Jimmy Cagney; most notably in " Angels With Dirty Faces " in 1938. Two years later, he was forever immortalized in " Knute Rockne All-American " playing the lead role. Remember Ronald Reagan saying "win one for the Gipper?" This is it! My personal favorite role of O'Brien's came many years later in 1959. He played the Chicago cop who tracked down George Raft (and Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon to a degree) in " Some Like It Hot ". By the late 1950s, movie roles for O'Brien were scarce. He began appearing on television quite regularly in westerns, drama anthologies, and the like. In 1964, O'Brien scored a television special entitled "Here Pat O'Brien" which featured him singing and recit...