Oscar-winner Edmond O'Brien was one of the most respected character actors in American cinema from his heyday of the mid-1940s through the late 1960s. Born on September 10, 1915 in New York, New York, O'Brien learned his craft in the theater, appearing with Orson Welles's Mercury Players. He made his uncredited debut as an extra in Prison Break (1938), but his real debut was with the plum supporting part of Gringoire in _Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939) . After returning from his wartime ...[Read Story]