Dave O'Brien

Known for Acting

Dave O'Brien's portrait

Details

Birthday: May 31, 1912

Deathday: November 08, 1969

Place of birth: Big Spring, Texas, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Actor

2006

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

1956

The Kettles in the Ozarks

1956

The Desperados Are in Town

1955

The Fall Guy

1955

Just What I Needed

1955

The Man Around the House

1954

Out for Fun

1954

Ain't It Aggravatin'

1954

Do Someone a Favor!

1954

Tennessee Champ

1954

Meet the O'Briens

1953

T.V. of Tomorrow

1953

Things We Can Do Without

1953

Cash Stashers

1953

Kiss Me Kate

1952

I Love Children, But!

1952

Reducing

1950

Did'ja Know?

1950

A Wife's Life

1950

Wrong Way Butch

1950

Pest Control

1949

Those Good Old Days

1948

Let's Cogitate

1948

I Love My Mother-In-Law But...

1948

You Can't Win

1948

Just Suppose

1947

Neighbor Pests

1947

I Love My Wife BUT!

1947

Have You Ever Wondered?

1946

I Love My Husband, But!

1946

Sure Cures

1946

Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11

1946

Studio Visit

1946

Treasures from Trash

1945

Enemy of the Law

1945

Frontier Fugitives

1945

The Phantom of 42nd Street

1945

The Man Who Walked Alone

1945

Marked for Murder

1945

Three in the Saddle

1945

Flaming Bullets

1944

Gangsters of the Frontier

1944

The Whispering Skull

1944

Guns of the Law

1944

The Pinto Bandit

1944

Tahiti Nights

1944

Movie Pests

1944

Brand of the Devil

1944

Dead or Alive

1944

Outlaw Roundup

1944

Gunsmoke Mesa

1944

Spook Town

1944

Safety Sleuth

1944

Sportsman's Memories

1943

Trail of Terror

1943

Bad Men of Thunder Gap

1943

Border Buckaroos

1943

Boss of Rawhide

1943

Fighting Valley

1943

The Return of the Rangers

1943

West of Texas

1943

Seventh Column

1942

Bowery at Midnight

1942

Down Texas Way

1942

Law and Order

1942

Captain Midnight

1942

Carry Harry

1942

Prisoner of Japan

1942

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

1942

The Rangers Take Over

1942

Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns

1942

Sheriff of Sage Valley

1942

Victory Quiz

1942

Calling All Pa's

1942

King of the Stallions

1942

The Yanks Are Coming

1942

What About Daddy?

1941

Spooks Run Wild

1941

Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto

1941

Flying Wild

1941

Forbidden Trails

1941

Billy the Kid Wanted

1941

Double Trouble

1941

The Texas Marshal

1941

The Gunman From Bodie

1941

The Deadly Game

1941

The Spider Returns

1941

Billy the Kid in Santa Fe

1941

Murder by Invitation

1940

The Devil Bat

1940

On the Spot

1940

Queen of the Yukon

1940

Phantom Rancher

1940

Danger Ahead

1940

Murder on the Yukon

1940

Yukon Flight

1940

Sky Bandits

1940

That Gang of Mine

1940

Boys of the City

1940

East Side Kids

1940

The Cowboy from Sundown

1940

Son of the Navy

1940

Isle Of Destiny

1940

Hold That Woman!

1940

Gun Code

1939

Trigger Smith

1939

Riders of the Sage

1939

Crashing Thru

1939

Daughter of the Tong

1939

Drifting Westward

1939

Flaming Lead

1939

Buried Alive

1939

Water Rustlers

1939

On Your Toes

1939

Code of the Cactus

1939

Outlaws' Paradise

1939

Undercover Agent

1939

Wyoming Outlaw

1939

New Frontier

1939

Fighting Mad

1939

The Fighting Renegade

1939

The Arizona Kid

1939

Mutiny in the Big House

1939

Texas Wildcats

1939

Rollin' Westward

1938

Song of the Buckaroo

1938

Tell Your Children

1938

Man's Country

1938

Born to Be Wild

1938

The Secret of Treasure Island

1938

Frontier Scout

1938

Whirlwind Horseman

1938

Utah Trail

1938

Where the Buffalo Roam

1938

The Singing Cowgirl

1938

Gun Packer

1938

Starlight Over Texas

1937

Million Dollar Racket

1937

Brothers of the West

1937

Rough Riding Rhythm

1937

Lightnin' Crandall

1936

The Black Coin

1936

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

1936

The Girl on the Front Page

1936

Wanted - A Master

1935

Welcome Home

1935

Woman Wanted

1935

Doubting Thomas

1935

Ship Cafe

1935

No More Ladies

1935

She Married Her Boss

1934

Wonder Bar

1934

Search for Beauty

1934

Student Tour

1934

Tomorrow's Children

1934

Gift of Gab

1934

Murder at the Vanities

1934

We're Rich Again

1934

Music in the Air

1933

One Man's Journey

1933

College Humor

1933

Sitting Pretty

1933

College Coach

1933

Pick-up

1933

The World Changes

1932

The Sign of the Cross

1932

Hot Saturday

1932

Roar of the Dragon

1932

Is My Face Red?

1932

Rasputin and the Empress

1932

70,000 Witnesses

1932

Devil and the Deep

1931

Consolation Marriage

1931

Flying High

1931

Lover Come Back

1930

Good News

1930

The Dawn Patrol

1930

Madam Satan

Director

1955

The Fall Guy

1955

The Man Around the House

1955

Just What I Needed

1954

Out for Fun

1954

Ain't It Aggravatin'

1954

Film Antics

1954

Do Someone a Favor!

1953

Things We Can Do Without

1953

Cash Stashers

1953

The Mosconi Story

1952

Reducing

1952

I Love Children, But!

1952

Musiquiz

1951

Camera Sleuth

1951

Bargain Madness

1950

Did'ja Know?

1950

Crashing the Movies

1950

Wrong Way Butch

1950

A Wife's Life

1950

Pest Control

1949

Super Cue Men

1949

Those Good Old Days

1949

We Can Dream, Can't We?

1948

Bowling Tricks

1948

You Can't Win

1948

Let's Cogitate

1948

I Love My Mother-In-Law But...

1948

Just Suppose

1948

Ice Aces

1947

Diamond Demon

1947

Neighbor Pests

1947

I Love My Wife BUT!

1947

Early Sports Quiz: What's Your I.Q. No. 13

1947

Have You Ever Wondered?

1947

Football Thrills No. 10

1947

Surfboard Rhythm

1946

Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11

1946

I Love My Husband, But!

1946

Sure Cures

1946

Treasures from Trash

Writer

1954

Out for Fun

1952

I Love Children, But!

1951

Camera Sleuth

1951

Bargain Madness

1948

You Can't Win

1948

Just Suppose

1948

Ice Aces

1947

Diamond Demon

1947

Have You Ever Wondered?

1946

Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11

1946

Sure Cures