Dave O'Brien
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.
Filmography (181 Appearances)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
That's Entertainment, Part II
The Big Parade of Comedy
The Desperados Are in Town
The Kettles in the Ozarks
MGM Parade
The Fall Guy
Just What I Needed
The Man Around the House
Meet the O'Briens
Out for Fun
Do Someone a Favor!
Tennessee Champ
Ain't It Aggravatin'
Things We Can Do Without
Kiss Me Kate
Cash Stashers
T.V. of Tomorrow
I Love Children, But!
Reducing
Wrong Way Butch
A Wife's Life
Did'ja Know?
Pest Control
Those Good Old Days
Let's Cogitate
Just Suppose
You Can't Win
I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
Have You Ever Wondered?
Neighbor Pests
I Love My Wife BUT!
I Love My Husband, But!
Sure Cures
Treasures from Trash
Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11
Studio Visit
Flaming Bullets
Frontier Fugitives
Three in the Saddle
Enemy of the Law
The Phantom of 42nd Street
The Man Who Walked Alone
Marked for Murder
The Whispering Skull
Tahiti Nights
Safety Sleuth
Dead or Alive
Gangsters of the Frontier
Gunsmoke Mesa
Brand of the Devil
Movie Pests
Spook Town
The Pinto Bandit
Sportsman's Memories
Guns of the Law
Outlaw Roundup
Boss of Rawhide
The Return of the Rangers
Trail of Terror
Fighting Valley
Seventh Column
Border Buckaroos
West of Texas
Bad Men of Thunder Gap
The Rangers Take Over
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
The Yanks Are Coming
Bowery at Midnight
Calling All Pa's
King of the Stallions
Carry Harry
Sheriff of Sage Valley
Law and Order
Prisoner of Japan
Down Texas Way
Victory Quiz
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
What About Daddy?
Captain Midnight
Forbidden Trails
Double Trouble
Spooks Run Wild
Billy the Kid Wanted
The Gunman From Bodie
The Deadly Game
The Texas Marshal
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Murder by Invitation
The Spider Returns
Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
Flying Wild
The Devil Bat
That Gang of Mine
The Cowboy from Sundown
Queen of the Yukon
Gun Code
Boys of the City
Sky Bandits
Hold That Woman!
On the Spot
Phantom Rancher
Son of the Navy
Isle Of Destiny
Murder on the Yukon
East Side Kids
Danger Ahead
Yukon Flight
Crashing Thru
Buried Alive
Fighting Mad
Flaming Lead
Mutiny in the Big House
On Your Toes
The Arizona Kid
The Fighting Renegade
Daughter of the Tong
New Frontier
Riders of the Sage
Wyoming Outlaw
Undercover Agent
Outlaws' Paradise
Texas Wildcats
Trigger Smith
Rollin' Westward
Code of the Cactus
Drifting Westward
Water Rustlers
Song of the Buckaroo
Gun Packer
Where the Buffalo Roam
Frontier Scout
Starlight Over Texas
Utah Trail
Man's Country
Tell Your Children
The Singing Cowgirl
Whirlwind Horseman
The Secret of Treasure Island
Born to Be Wild
Million Dollar Racket
Rough Riding Rhythm
Brothers of the West
Lightnin' Crandall
Wanted - A Master
The Girl on the Front Page
The Black Coin
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Ship Cafe
She Married Her Boss
Welcome Home
Woman Wanted
Doubting Thomas
No More Ladies
Music in the Air
Student Tour
Gift of Gab
We're Rich Again
Tomorrow's Children
Murder at the Vanities
Wonder Bar
Search for Beauty
The World Changes
Sitting Pretty
College Coach
One Man's Journey
College Humor
Pick-up
The Sign of the Cross
Rasputin and the Empress
Hot Saturday
70,000 Witnesses
Devil and the Deep
Roar of the Dragon
Is My Face Red?
Consolation Marriage
Flying High
Lover Come Back
Madam Satan
Good News
The Dawn Patrol