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Vaudeville and stage performer Pat O`Malley was a mere lad of seventeen (or thereabouts) when he inaugurated his film career at the Edison company in 1907. A dependable "collar-ad" leading man possessed of an athlete`s physique, O`Malley rose to stardom at the Kalem Studios during the teens. From 1918 to 1927, O`Malley hopscotched around Hollywood, appearing at Universal, First National, Vitagraph and Paramount; he starred in war films (Heart of Humanity [1918]), westerns (The Virginian [1922]) and adaptations of bestsellers (Brothers Under the Skin [1922]). His talkie debut in 1929`s Alibi would seem to have heralded a thriving sound career, but O`Malley had aged rather suddenly, and could no longer pass as a romantic lead. He worked in some 400 films in bits and supporting roles, frequently showing up in "reunion" films in the company of his fellow silent screen veterans (Hollywood Boulevard [1936], and A Little Bit of Heaven [1941]). O`Malley remained "on call" into the early `60s for such TV shows as The Twilight Zone and such films as The Days of Wine and Roses (1962). Pat O`Malley`s film credits are often confused with those of Irish comedian/dialectian J. Pat O`Malley (1901-1985) and Australian performer John P. O`Malley (1916-1959).