Dave O'Brien
Birthday: 1912-05-31 | Place of Birth: Big Spring, Texas, USAFrom 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Conductor
as Man on TV
as Dave Wyatt
as Dave Wyatt
as Tony Woolrich
as Tex Wyatt / Curly Wyatt
as Captain Albright / Captain Midnight
as Dave Dodge
as Det. Pete Crawford
as Jeff Travis
as Sgt. Phil Lyons
as Tex Wyatt
as Jeff
as Jeff Dixon
as Jim Cramer
as Constable Kelly
as Henchman Lucke
as Johnny Layton
as Knuckles Dolan
as Bob Lawson
as Bob Swane
as Dr. Jerry Leonard
as Ed Arden
as Frank Gordon
as Ralph
as Steve Norris
as Bart, Tracy Henchman
as Detective Waters
as Terry Navarro
