Dave O'Brien

Known for ActingBorn 1912-05-31Died 1969-11-08Big Spring, Texas, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

I Love Children, But!

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

I Love My Husband, But!

Outlaw Roundup

Border Buckaroos

Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto

Double Trouble

Song of the Buckaroo

Out for Fun

Surfboard Rhythm

Three in the Saddle

Tahiti Nights

The Cowboy from Sundown

Trigger Smith

Rough Riding Rhythm

Welcome Home

The Spider Returns

The Desperados Are in Town

Those Good Old Days

Super Cue Men

Football Thrills No. 10

Trail of Terror

Bad Men of Thunder Gap

West of Texas

The Texas Marshal

Danger Ahead

Gun Code

Drifting Westward

Outlaws' Paradise

Texas Wildcats

Man's Country

Ship Cafe

Sitting Pretty

Diamond Demon

The Fall Guy

MGM Parade

Let's Cogitate

Law and Order

The Red Skelton Show

Crashing Thru

Born to Be Wild

The Singing Cowgirl

Things We Can Do Without

Doubting Thomas

She Married Her Boss

The Big Parade of Comedy

King of the Stallions

That's Entertainment, Part II