Dave O'Brien
Acting
Born 1912-05-31
Died 1969-11-08
Big Spring, Texas, USA
201 credits
Primetime Emmy Awards 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award
Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won
- 1961 Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Won The Red Skelton Show
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- 1960 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
52 credits
MGM Parade
Kiss Me Kate
The Sign of the Cross
That's Entertainment, Part II
Double Trouble
Do Someone a Favor!
42nd Street
Forbidden Trails
Three in the Saddle
Pick-up
Isle Of Destiny
College Humor
Safety Sleuth
Wonder Bar
Rasputin and the Empress
The Big Parade of Comedy
Tell Your Children
Bowery at Midnight
Just Suppose
Madam Satan
Flaming Bullets
New Frontier
Consolation Marriage
She Married Her Boss
On Your Toes
The Dawn Patrol
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Studio Visit
That Gang of Mine
The World Changes
I Love My Wife BUT!
Hot Saturday
Carry Harry
The Devil Bat
Phantom Rancher
Lightnin' Crandall
Water Rustlers
Fighting Valley
Woman Wanted
Murder at the Vanities
Spooks Run Wild
The Man Who Walked Alone
No More Ladies
On the Spot
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Where the Buffalo Roam
Rough Riding Rhythm
The Arizona Kid
Code of the Cactus
A Wife's Life
Search for Beauty
Son of the Navy
Directing
10 credits
Diamond Demon
Do Someone a Favor!
Camera Sleuth
Just Suppose
Film Antics
Musiquiz
Ice Aces
I Love My Wife BUT!
A Wife's Life
Neighbor Pests
Writing
8 credits
The Red Skelton Show
Diamond Demon
Do Someone a Favor!
Camera Sleuth
Just Suppose
Ice Aces
I Love My Wife BUT!
A Wife's Life
Other credits
1 credit
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