The producer and star of the Australian silent film The Face at the Window (1919), D. B. O’Connor was an actor, director and producer of numerous musical theatre productions. He started his entrepreneurial activities in 1906 with a tour of India, having first established himself as an actor with Pollards Opera Company, and continued touring his own companies up until the 1940s.
O’Connor’s involvement in variety theatre included Warton and O’Connor’s Frivolities (ca. 1924). In 1936 his company North Shore Theatres Ltd bought and began operating Sydney’s Roseville Theatre.
[Source: Australian Variety Theatre Archive]
