Eugene O'NeillFilmography

Occupation:: Screenwriter, Play Author
Birth name:: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Biography:: From the 1920s until the 1950s, Eugene O'Neill was regarded as the leading playwright in the United States, and in the English-speaking world. His works have regularly shown up in big- and small-screen adaptations, not only in the United States but in various countries around the world as well...Read More

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Deception

Crew: Transportation Captain

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Bruce Altman, Andrew Ginsburg, Maggie Q

Synopsis: A disconnected accountant finds his mundane life injected with a new sense of urgency after striking up a friendship with a charismatic attorney in director Marcel Langenegger's sexually charged action thriller. Jonathan (Ewan McGregor) is an accountant who has lost his passion in life. When his Read More

4/25/08
Long Day's Journey into Night

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This slightly abridged version of Eugene O'Neill's classic play was originally staged by director David Wellington at the prestigious Stratford Festival in Canada. In order to better fit the unusually designed stage at the Tom Patterson Theatre where the production was staged, Wellington utilized Read More

1996
The Strange Interlude

Crew: Play Author

Actors: David Dukes, Rosemary Harris, Glenda Jackson, Ken Howard

Synopsis: Previously filmed (and truncated) in 1932, Eugene O'Neill's marathon 1928 Pulitzer-winning stage drama Strange Interlude was adapted for television in 1988. Broadcast in three 90-minute installments, the nine-act play covers some 25 years in the life of New England woman Nina Leeds (Glenda Read More

1990
Long Day's Journey into Night

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Bethel Leslie, Kevin Spacey, Peter Gallagher, Jodie Lynne McClintock

Synopsis: Previously filmed by director Sidney Lumet in 1962, Eugene O'Neill's gloomy Pulitzer Prize-winning play Long Day's Journey Into Night is given a vibrant videotaped treatment by Jonathan Miller. Set on one hot August day and night in 1912, the story concerns the tragic Tyrone family (based, as any Read More

1987
Oyun La Tanam

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Madiha Kamel

Synopsis: Four brothers run a car-repair shop in Cairo, with the eldest dominating the lot. Worried about the care of his brothers and wanting an heir himself, the oldest brother has a matchmaker arrange a marriage for him. Once his bride arrives, dissension drives two of the brothers away, and animosity Read More

1981
The Iceman Cometh

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Fredric March, Jeff Bridges

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer's screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play The Iceman Cometh is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's dingy waterfront saloon. On the occasion of Hope's birthday, several derelicts enter the scene to pontificate on the lives they'd planned, the lives they still dream about Read More

1973
Long Day's Journey into Night

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Constance Cummings, Denis Quilley, Ronald Pickup, Maureen Lipman

Synopsis: British actors perform Eugene O'Neill's family drama A Long Day's Journey Into Night in a made-for-television performance. This filmed play was originally broadcast on March 10, 1973. For his portrayal of aging actor James Tyrone, Laurence Olivier won an Emmy for Outstanding Single Performance by Read More

1973
Long Day's Journey into Night

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Jr., Dean Stockwell, Jeanne Barr

Synopsis: Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play not be produced during O'Neill's lifetime. Two years after the playwright's death in 1953, the play was given its first Broadway staging and won a Pulitzer Prize. Set in Read More

1962
Desire under the Elms

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Frank Overton, Pernell Roberts

Synopsis: Director Delbert Mann and screenwriter Irwin Shaw adapt Eugene O'Neill's 20th-century version of a Greek tragedy to the screen with a bit more discretion than need be. The story takes place in the New England of the 1840s. Emotionally cool but passionately hot farmer Burl Ives the smoldering Sophia Loren Read More

1958
Summer Holiday

Crew: Play Author

Actors: John Alexander, Mickey Rooney, Gloria de Haven, Walter Huston, Ruth Brady, Virginia Brissac, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Summer Holiday is a musical remake of the 1935 MGM comedy-drama Ah, Wilderness!, which in turn was adapted from the play by Eugene O'Neill. Mickey Rooney (who played a supporting role in the 1935 film) stars as O'Neill's alter ego Richard Miller, a young man coming of age in early 20th century New Read More

1948
Mourning Becomes Electra

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Leo Genn

Synopsis: Rosalind Russell stars in this marathon adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play. The O'Neill original transposed Euripides' Agamemnon/Clytemnestra legend to post-Civil War New England. Russell plays the daughter of a returning war hero (Raymond Massey), who comes home to find his wife (Katina Paxinou Read More

1947
The Hairy Ape

Crew: Play Author

Actors: William Bendix, Susan Hayward, John Loder, Dorothy Comingore, Alan Napier, Roman Bohnen

Synopsis: Despite a few Hollywood compromises, The Hairy Ape remains one of the more artistically successful filmizations of Eugene O'Neill. William Bendix is nothing less than brilliant as ship's stoker Hank Smith, a brutish but sensitive lug who is convinced that his strength is derived from the hair that Read More

1944
The Long Voyage Home

Crew: Play Author

Actors: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfred Lawson

Synopsis: John Ford welded four of Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, The Zone, and Moon of the Caribees, into this melancholy film about wayfaring seamen, changing the setting from the turn of the century to WWII. This was O'Neill's favorite of the Read More

1940
Ah, Wilderness!

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, Cecilia Parker, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Playwright Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! was filmed by MGM in 1935. Impressionable turn-of-the-century lad Eric Linden, whose knowledge of the ways of the world has come from French novels, is anxious to taste life to the fullest. Linden's father Lionel Barrymore sternly advises Read More

1935
The Emperor Jones

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank Wilson, Fredi Washington, Ruby Elzy

Synopsis: Adapted by DuBose Heyward from a Eugene O'Neill play, Emperor Jones is one of Paul Robeson's earliest and most powerful leading roles. Railroad porter Brutus Jones (Robeson) leaves his girlfriend Dolly (Ruby Elzy) in favor of Undine (Fredi Washington), but he soon leaves her too. Brutus is a Read More

1933
Strange Interlude

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan, Robert Young

Synopsis: A remarkably smooth 110-minute adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's marathon eight-hour play, Strange Interlude was advertised as "the picture in which you hear the characters think," a nod to O'Neill's technique of having the characters speak their innermost thoughts out loud between dialogue passages Read More

1932
Anna Christie

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Greta Garbo, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, Charles Bickford

Synopsis: Accompanied by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Hollywood history, Greta Garbo made her "talking picture" debut in this carefully chosen vehicle, the second screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1922 play about the Minnesota-raised Swedish girl who desperately attempts to keep her Read More

1930
Anna Christie

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Blanche Sweet, William Russell, George F. Marion, Eugénie Besserer

Synopsis: In this silent drama based on the play by Eugene O'Neill, Blanche Sweet plays Anna Christie, a young woman whose father Chris (George F. Marion) is a sailor and knows enough of the life of seafaring men to be certain that he doesn't want his daughter to become involved with one. Hoping to guide Read More

1923