Dave O'Brien
Cunoscut Pentru
Acting
Born
May 31, 1912 (age 113)
Birth Place
Big Spring, Texas, USA
Died
November 8, 1969
Biografie
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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.
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.
Filmografie
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006 — Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 — (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 — Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage)
The Desperados Are in Town
1956 — Dock Lapman / Mr. Brown
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956 — Conductor
The Fall Guy
1955 — Himself as Various Characters (archive footage)
The Fall Guy
1955 — director
Just What I Needed
1955 — screenplay
Just What I Needed
1955 — Harry Horseknuckle
Just What I Needed
1955 — director
The Man Around the House
1955 — Hugo Hightonsil (uncredited)
The Man Around the House
1955 — story