Dave O'Brien
Biography
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Dave O'Brien (born David Poole Fronabarger, May 31, 1912 – November 8, 1969) was an American film actor, director, and writer.
O'Brien was best known to movie audiences in the 1940s as the hero of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy short film series Pete Smith Specialties narrated by Pete Smith. O'Brien wrote and directed many of these subjects under the name David Barclay. He also appeared in many low-budget Westerns, often billed as Tex O'Brien. In 1942, O'Brien starred in the movie serial Captain Midnight.
Modern audiences perhaps best remember O'Brien as a frantic dope addict in the 1936 low-budget exploitation film Tell Your Children (better known under its reissue title, Reefer Madness).
As a writer for The Red Skelton Show, O'Brien shared an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 1961 and shared a nomination for the same award in 1963.
O'Brien died, aged 57, of a heart attack while competing in a yachting race.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1912-05-31
Place of birth
Big Spring, Texas, USA
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Cast
Welcome Home
1935
0.00
The Devil Bat
1940
5.30
Million Dollar Racket
1937
6.00
Spooks Run Wild
1941
4.85
Song of the Buckaroo
1938
0.00
Tell Your Children
1938
4.28
Those Good Old Days
1949
0.00
Man's Country
1938
0.00
Bowery at Midnight
1942
5.10
Born to Be Wild
1938
7.00
The Sign of the Cross
1932
6.20
Neighbor Pests
1947
0.00
The Secret of Treasure Island
1938
4.00
Let's Cogitate
1948
5.00
Trigger Smith
1939
0.00
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956
6.40
Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
1941
0.00
Flying Wild
1941
5.90
On the Spot
1940
5.50
Forbidden Trails
1941
5.40
Frontier Scout
1938
4.50
Riders of the Sage
1939
5.00
Whirlwind Horseman
1938
4.00
Wonder Bar
1934
6.10
Crashing Thru
1939
6.00
Enemy of the Law
1945
5.00
Gangsters of the Frontier
1944
3.80
Frontier Fugitives
1945
0.00
The Phantom of 42nd Street
1945
4.50
Consolation Marriage
1931
6.10
Down Texas Way
1942
0.00
The Man Who Walked Alone
1945
5.50
Queen of the Yukon
1940
5.00
The Black Coin
1936
6.00
Law and Order
1942
6.00
Brothers of the West
1937
6.00
Daughter of the Tong
1939
4.20
Where the Buffalo Roam
1938
5.00
Utah Trail
1938
5.00
The Singing Cowgirl
1938
5.00
One Man's Journey
1933
7.10
Gun Packer
1938
0.00
Out for Fun
1954
0.00
Phantom Rancher
1940
3.50
Drifting Westward
1939
0.00
Flaming Lead
1939
4.00
Captain Midnight
1942
5.00
Good News
1930
5.00
T.V. of Tomorrow
1953
6.40
Buried Alive
1939
4.70
Hot Saturday
1932
6.50
Water Rustlers
1939
2.50
Flying High
1931
4.80
Woman Wanted
1935
6.30
College Humor
1933
5.60
The Whispering Skull
1944
4.67
On Your Toes
1939
3.90
Roar of the Dragon
1932
6.00
Guns of the Law
1944
5.00
Code of the Cactus
1939
5.50
Undercover Agent
1939
3.88
Outlaws' Paradise
1939
0.00
Wyoming Outlaw
1939
5.60
New Frontier
1939
5.50
Fighting Mad
1939
3.00
The Fighting Renegade
1939
5.70
The Arizona Kid
1939
5.80
Mutiny in the Big House
1939
4.40
Billy the Kid Wanted
1941
5.70
Double Trouble
1941
0.00
The Pinto Bandit
1944
0.00
Texas Wildcats
1939
0.00
Danger Ahead
1940
0.00
Murder on the Yukon
1940
3.50
The Texas Marshal
1941
0.00
Yukon Flight
1940
3.90
Sky Bandits
1940
5.00
Rollin' Westward
1939
5.00
Trail of Terror
1943
0.00
Tahiti Nights
1944
0.00
Bad Men of Thunder Gap
1943
0.00
Things We Can Do Without
1953
8.00
Carry Harry
1942
0.00
That Gang of Mine
1940
5.60
Boys of the City
1940
5.00
Search for Beauty
1934
5.90
East Side Kids
1940
6.67
Prisoner of Japan
1942
4.30
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942
6.35
Ain't It Aggravatin'
1954
6.00
Did'ja Know?
1950
6.00
The Rangers Take Over
1942
6.00
The Gunman From Bodie
1941
4.00
Rough Riding Rhythm
1937
0.00
The Cowboy from Sundown
1940
0.00
Student Tour
1934
5.00
Sitting Pretty
1933
7.50
Tomorrow's Children
1934
4.57
Gift of Gab
1934
1.00
College Coach
1933
4.20
Son of the Navy
1940
5.50
Isle Of Destiny
1940
5.00
Movie Pests
1944
5.60
The Fall Guy
1955
6.00
I Love My Husband, But!
1946
0.00
Sure Cures
1946
5.00
Hold That Woman!
1940
5.00
Murder at the Vanities
1934
5.40
We're Rich Again
1934
4.00
Doubting Thomas
1935
7.00
Is My Face Red?
1932
5.00
Pick-up
1933
4.80
The Girl on the Front Page
1936
0.00
The Deadly Game
1941
6.00
Border Buckaroos
1943
0.00
Boss of Rawhide
1943
5.50
The Spider Returns
1941
8.70
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
1942
4.50
Studio Visit
1946
3.50
Sheriff of Sage Valley
1942
5.60
Gun Code
1940
0.00
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
1941
4.00
Fighting Valley
1943
0.00
The Return of the Rangers
1943
0.00
West of Texas
1943
0.00
Brand of the Devil
1944
5.00
Dead or Alive
1944
4.25
Outlaw Roundup
1944
0.00
Marked for Murder
1945
4.20
Gunsmoke Mesa
1944
1.00
Spook Town
1944
0.00
Three in the Saddle
1945
0.00
Flaming Bullets
1945
5.00
Starlight Over Texas
1938
0.00
The Desperados Are in Town
1956
0.00
Murder by Invitation
1941
5.60
Lightnin' Crandall
1937
2.00
The Dawn Patrol
1930
6.70
I Love My Wife BUT!
1947
7.50
A Wife's Life
1950
6.00
I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
1948
7.30
Cash Stashers
1953
6.00
I Love Children, But!
1952
0.00
Just What I Needed
1955
0.00
The Man Around the House
1955
0.00
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
5.33
Wrong Way Butch
1950
5.80
You Can't Win
1948
4.33
Do Someone a Favor!
1954
0.00
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
6.90
Just Suppose
1948
6.00
Reducing
1952
2.00
Have You Ever Wondered?
1947
0.00
Victory Quiz
1942
6.00
Calling All Pa's
1942
6.00
Safety Sleuth
1944
0.00
King of the Stallions
1942
6.00
Treasures from Trash
1946
8.00
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
6.30
70,000 Witnesses
1932
4.80
Ship Cafe
1935
0.00
Seventh Column
1943
0.00
Kiss Me Kate
1953
6.40
Wanted - A Master
1936
6.43
No More Ladies
1935
5.10
Sportsman's Memories
1944
0.00
Tennessee Champ
1954
5.80
The Yanks Are Coming
1942
4.50
She Married Her Boss
1935
7.00
Madam Satan
1930
5.90
What About Daddy?
1942
0.00