Dave O'Brien
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 Kettles in the Ozarks
The Desperados Are in Town
Tennessee Champ
Kiss Me Kate
T.V. of Tomorrow
The Phantom of 42nd Street
The Man Who Walked Alone
Marked for Murder
Frontier Fugitives
Three in the Saddle
Enemy of the Law
Flaming Bullets
The Whispering Skull
Dead or Alive
Movie Pests
Spook Town
The Pinto Bandit
Guns of the Law
Gunsmoke Mesa
Outlaw Roundup
Brand of the Devil
Gangsters of the Frontier
Trail of Terror
Fighting Valley
Border Buckaroos
West of Texas
Boss of Rawhide
Bowery at Midnight
Sheriff of Sage Valley
Law and Order
Captain Midnight
King of the Stallions
Down Texas Way
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
The Rangers Take Over
Prisoner of Japan
Double Trouble
Spooks Run Wild
The Deadly Game
Murder by Invitation
The Spider Returns
Flying Wild
The Texas Marshal
The Gunman from Bodie
Billy the Kid Wanted
Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
Forbidden Trails
The Devil Bat
That Gang of Mine
The Cowboy from Sundown
Boys of the City
Hold That Woman!
On the Spot
Son of the Navy
Murder on the Yukon
East Side Kids
Danger Ahead
Gun Code
Phantom Rancher
Yukon Flight
Sky Bandits
Queen of the Yukon
Crashing Thru
Fighting Mad
Flaming Lead
Mutiny in the Big House
Daughter of the Tong
Riders of the Sage
Texas Wildcats
The Fighting Renegade
Code of the Cactus
Outlaws' Paradise
Rollin' Westward
Water Rustlers
Man's Country
Tell Your Children
Whirlwind Horseman
Where the Buffalo Roam
The Singing Cowgirl
Frontier Scout
Gun Packer
Utah Trail
Million Dollar Racket
Brothers of the West
Lightnin' Crandall
Rough Riding Rhythm
Wanted - A Master
The Black Coin
Welcome Home
Tomorrow's Children
Is My Face Red?
Lover Come Back
