Lillian O'Malley
Biography
Born Lillian Wilkes, Lillian O’Malley was a character actress who started her career in minor roles during the 1930s and was most frequently seen in western movies playing supporting bit parts. She married silent film star and fellow but part player Pat O’Malley, with whom she had three daughters.
Known For & Full Filmography28 Titles
Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as Wagon Train Member
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • as Miss Meredith
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as Mrs. Whitney
An inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore 'The Beaver' Cleaver, has adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as Last Nurse
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as Hotel Maid
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as Juror (uncredited)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as Library patron (uncredited)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as The Cleaning Woman
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as Housekeeper
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as Flora
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as Sunday Worshipper
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as Newspaperwoman
Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Woman in Front of Chronicle Building (uncredited)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Extra (uncredited)
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Spectator (uncredited)
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes • as Worker (uncredited)
Dan Adams, former Naval Intelligence officer, works in San Diego as a private detective.
Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes • as Cantina Patron (uncredited)
Dan Adams, former Naval Intelligence officer, works in San Diego as a private detective.
Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • as Onlooker at Crime Scene (uncredited)
Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "Waldo's" jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village, featuring performances by the Pete Candoli jazz combo which included Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Red Norvo and Johnny Williams. The theme was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Woman on Street
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Townswoman (uncredited)
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Parent at Meeting (uncredited)
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Settler
A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Juror
In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Cook
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!