Eugene O'Brien

Eugene O'Brien may refer to:

Eugene O'Brien (racing driver)

Eugene O'Brien (born 22 March 1960 in Manchester) is a British auto racing driver and coach.

Career

He started his racing career in single-seaters, winning his first race in 1983 (FF1600). After finishing third in the Junior Formula Ford Series in 1983, he was forced to take a break from racing due to lack of finance. He returned in 1987, competing in Formula First, where he finished the year as runner-up. He switched to Formula Vauxhall Lotus in 1988, ending his second year in the championship as runner-up. He won his first title in 1990 with the British Sports 2000 Championship. His second title came in 1992, winning the Formula Forward series.

His success got him a drive in the British Touring Car Championship, with the works Peugeot team in 1993. He competed for two seasons in the series, but struggled with the underfunded Peugeot 405 finishing 16th in his first season, and 17th in 1994. Ater leaving the BTCC he competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Agusta Racing Team, finishing third in the GT2 Class.

Eugene O'Brien (actor)

Eugene O'Brien (November 14, 1880 – April 29, 1966) was an American silent film star and stage actor.

Biography

He was born Louis O'Brien on November 14, 1880 in Boulder, Colorado.

He studied medicine at the University of Colorado at Boulder but was keener on the stage than becoming a doctor. O'Brien switched to civil engineering under his family's guidance, but his heart was still set on becoming an actor. He moved to New York City and was "discovered" by theatrical impresario Charles Frohman who signed O'Brien to a three-year contract and put him in The Builder of Bridges, which opened on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on October 26, 1909.

O'Brien made his name playing opposite Ethel Barrymore, in a revival of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play Trelawny of the 'Wells', which opened at the Empire Theatre on New Year's Day, 1911.

O'Brien's first film, Essanay Film's The Lieutenant Governor, in which he had the starring role, played in Boulder's Curran Theater in February 1915, giving his family its first opportunity to see him act. World Film Corp. chief executive Lewis J. Selznick made O'Brien a screen star, putting him in an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. Subsequently he was leading man opposite some of the leading female stars of the day, including Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge and Gloria Swanson and became a silent screen matinée idol.

O'Brien

The O'Brien dynasty were a royal dynasty who ruled Thomond, Ireland.

O'Brien is a common surname. See List of people named O'Brien.

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O'Brien (TV series)

O'Brien is a British talk show presented by James O'Brien. It was broadcast on ITV from 30 March 2015 to 10 April 2015.

Episodes

Reception

The majority has been negative with Gerard O'Donovan of The Daily Telegraph describing the show as "low rent" and "disappointing".

References

List of people named O'Brien

O'Brien is a surname of Irish origin which has many variants in the Irish diaspora worldwide, such as O'Bryan, O'Brian, O'Briant, O'Brient, O'Bryant, O'Brine, O'Bryen etc., which all claim a general common ancestry with the original Gaelic surname being Ó Briain or Uí Briain. Notable people with the surname include:

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