
Actor
Born March 29, 1908 in New York City, New York, USA
Arthur O'Connell (March 29, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in films (starting with a small role in Citizen Kane) in 1941 and television programs (mostly guest appearances). Among his screen appearances were Picnic, Anatomy of a Murder, and as the watch-maker who hides Jews during WWII in The Hiding Place. A veteran vaudevillian, O'Connell, from New York City, made his legitimate stage debut in the mid 1930s, at which time he fell within the orbit of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. Welles cast O'Connell in the tiny role of a reporter in the closing scenes of Citizen Kane (1941), a film often referred to as O'Connell's film debut, though in fact he had already appeared in Freshman Year (1939) and had costarred in two Leon Errol short subjects as Leon's conniving brother-in-law.

Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
Self - (archive footage)

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actor 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Medical Story
Dr. Avery Loomis

The Hiding Place
Casper ten Boom, 'Papa'

Huckleberry Finn
Col. Grangerford

Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Henry Gills

Adam's Rib
Judge

Wicked, Wicked
Mr. Fenley, Hotel Engineer

The Poseidon Adventure
John, the Chaplain

They Only Kill Their Masters
Ernie

Ghost Story
Chief Owen Huston

The Paul Lynde Show

Ben
Bill Hatfield

Emergency!

A Taste of Evil
John

Cannon

The Last Valley
Hoffman

Alias Smith and Jones

Night Gallery

There Was a Crooked Man...
Mr. Lomax

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Mr. Kruft

McCloud

Nanny and the Professor

Seven in Darkness
Larry Wise

Room 222

If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
Prosecutor

The Name of the Game
Charlie Sherwin

The Power
Prof. Henry Hallson

The Second Hundred Years
Edwin Carpenter

The Reluctant Astronaut
Arbuckle "Buck" Fleming

Ironside

A Covenant with Death
Judge Hockstadter

Fantastic Voyage
Col. Donald Reid

Birds Do It
Professor Wald

The Silencers
Joe Wigman

Ride Beyond Vengeance
The Narrator

The F.B.I.
Smitty

The Wild Wild West

The Big Valley
Jubal

The Monkey's Uncle
Darius Green III

The Third Day
Dr. Wheeler

The Great Race
Henry Goodbody

Nightmare in the Sun
Sam Wilson

Your Cheatin' Heart
Fred Rose

7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Clint Stark

Kissin' Cousins
Pappy Tatum

Petticoat Junction
William Lawrence

Burke's Law
Dr. Stuart Alexander

The Fugitive
Dr. Josephus Harrison Adams

Arrest and Trial

Marilyn
archive footage

Sam Benedict

Follow That Dream
Pop Kwimper

Pocketful of Miracles
Count Alfonso Romero

The New Breed
Peter Capples

A Thunder of Drums
Sgt. Karl Rodermill

Misty
Grandpa Clarence Beebe

The Great Impostor
Warden J.B. Chandler

Cimarron
Tom Wyatt

Special for Women
Joe Lawson

Route 66

My Three Sons

Operation Petticoat
Chief Motor Machinist's Mate Sam Tostin

Hound-Dog Man
Aaron McKinney

Startime
Self

Bonanza
Dr. Samuel Hubert

Anatomy of a Murder
Parnell Emmett "Parn" McCarthy

Gidget
Russell Lawrence

Man of the West
Sam Beasley

Voice in the Mirror
Bill Tobin

The Violators
Solomon Baumgarten

April Love
Jed Bruce

Alcoa Theatre

DuPont Show of the Month

Wagon Train

Operation Mad Ball
Col. Rousch

The Monte Carlo Story
Mr. Homer Hinkley

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Lyman

Bus Stop
Virgil Blessing

The Solid Gold Cadillac
Mark Jenkins

The Proud Ones
Jim Dexter

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Gordon Walker

Picnic
Howard Bevans

Matinee Theater

The Oscars
Self

Omnibus

The Whistle at Eaton Falls
Jim Brewster

Force of Evil
Link Hall (uncredited)

The Taming of the Shrew
Curtis

Studio One
Curtis

The Countess of Monte Cristo
Assistant Director Jensen

The Philco Television Playhouse

One Touch of Venus
Reporter

State of the Union
First Reporter

Homecoming
Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)

The Naked City
Sgt. Shaeffer (uncredited)

Open Secret
Carter

Hello, Annapolis
Pharmacist Mate

Fingers at the Window
Photographer (uncredited)

Blondie's Blessed Event
Interne (uncredited)

Canal Zone
New Recruit (uncredited)

Law of the Jungle
Simmons

Man From Headquarters
Goldie Shores

Citizen Kane
Reporter (uncredited)

Hullabaloo
Fourth Page

Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Intern (uncredited)

The Golden Fleecing
Cameraman (uncredited)

Bested by a Beard
Phil

'Taint Legal
Book Salesman

I Take This Oath
Court Clerk

Two Girls on Broadway
Reporter at Wedding (uncredited)

And One Was Beautiful
Moroni's Parking Attendant

Murder in Soho
Lefty