George O’Brien got the lead role in John Ford’s epic silent western, THE IRON HORSE (1924). O'Brien would spend the remainder of the 1920s as an extremely popular leading man in silent films, often starring in action and adventure roles alongside such popular actresses of the era . With the advent of sound, George O'Brien became a popular star of Westerns and rarely took parts outside of the Western film genre. Throughout the 1930s, O'Brien was a consistent Top Ten box-office draw appearing in scores of Westerns.
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