
Dave O'Brien
Born May 31, 1912 · Big 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.
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The Sign of the Cross

Tell Your Children

Murder at the Vanities

The Big Parade of Comedy

Double Trouble

The Gunman From Bodie

Devil and the Deep

Wonder Bar

Rasputin and the Empress

Music in the Air

Is My Face Red?

We're Rich Again

The Cowboy from Sundown

Born to Be Wild

She Married Her Boss

That Gang of Mine

Billy the Kid in Santa Fe

The Man Who Walked Alone

Madam Satan

Gangsters of the Frontier

T.V. of Tomorrow

Just Suppose

Three in the Saddle

Flaming Bullets

Water Rustlers

Captain Midnight

Enemy of the Law

The Kettles in the Ozarks

Pick-up

Undercover Agent

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

One Man's Journey

Song of the Buckaroo

The Phantom of 42nd Street

Forbidden Trails

Roar of the Dragon

Lightnin' Crandall

The Girl on the Front Page

Fighting Valley

Mutiny in the Big House

Tennessee Champ

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

The Rangers Take Over

Spooks Run Wild

Victory Quiz

King of the Stallions

Where the Buffalo Roam

The Desperados Are in Town

The World Changes

The Secret of Treasure Island

Bad Men of Thunder Gap

Wyoming Outlaw

Flying High

Carry Harry

Meet the O'Briens

New Frontier

Sheriff of Sage Valley

Riders of the Sage

Daughter of the Tong

No More Ladies

Studio Visit

Murder on the Yukon

The Return of the Rangers

College Humor

The Dawn Patrol

Son of the Navy

Woman Wanted

Code of the Cactus

Boys of the City

On Your Toes

Queen of the Yukon

Consolation Marriage

Isle Of Destiny

Guns of the Law

Dead or Alive

Phantom Rancher

The Devil Bat

Good News

Billy the Kid Wanted

College Coach

Brand of the Devil

Hot Saturday

The Yanks Are Coming

Tomorrow's Children

Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns

Gift of Gab

Ship Cafe

The Spider Returns

The Arizona Kid

Tahiti Nights

70,000 Witnesses

Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto

Brothers of the West

Outlaw Roundup

The Deadly Game

Lover Come Back

Prisoner of Japan

Flaming Lead

Starlight Over Texas

Boss of Rawhide

Hold That Woman!

Murder by Invitation

Sky Bandits

Fighting Mad

Student Tour

Bowery at Midnight

Frontier Fugitives

Crashing Thru

Rough Riding Rhythm

Frontier Scout

The Fighting Renegade

Buried Alive

Whirlwind Horseman

Flying Wild

Danger Ahead

Doubting Thomas

Marked for Murder

East Side Kids

Calling All Pa's

Rollin' Westward

Trigger Smith

Ain't It Aggravatin'

Things We Can Do Without

On the Spot

Sitting Pretty

Search for Beauty

Man's Country

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

Texas Wildcats

Let's Cogitate

The Black Coin

The Texas Marshal

The Pinto Bandit

Gun Packer

The Singing Cowgirl

Wanted - A Master

Down Texas Way

Law and Order

The Whispering Skull

Treasures from Trash

Trail of Terror

Million Dollar Racket

Spook Town

Yukon Flight

Welcome Home

You Can't Win

Did'ja Know?

Outlaws' Paradise

Movie Pests

West of Texas

What About Daddy?

Gun Code

Border Buckaroos

Drifting Westward

I Love Children, But!

Gunsmoke Mesa

Sure Cures

Seventh Column

Cash Stashers

Utah Trail

Reducing




