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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.
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11 July 1941
Falsely accused of murder, Billy is able to escape thanks to his pals. Once in Santa Fe, he meets once again the man who lied during the trial.
05 September 1940
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler.
30 September 1937
Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey.
08 July 1932
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area.
05 March 1943
Tex Wyatt is blamed for a murder actually committed by Ransom and Holman, a couple of thieves. Tex manages to escape and is reunited with his two ranger pals Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins, both of whom are working undercover as performers in a medicine show.
06 July 1940
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company.
18 April 1939
Bill Carson assumes the identity of gang leader Trigger Mallory in order to fool his gang and his girlfriend.
29 May 1948
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.
01 November 1956
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw.
31 August 1933
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York.
16 September 1938
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).
01 March 1939
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are trying to swindle them out of their cattle ranch.
09 April 1939
Lightning Bill Carson and sidekick Magpie are after Burrows, the man that killed a friend of theirs. Burrows is after the Arden ranch and his gang are rustling their cattle.
22 January 1940
The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold.
21 November 1931
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
22 March 1939
A cowboy goes after a gang of stagecoach robbers who murdered his brother.
16 November 1938
Jack has been called in to investigate stage robberies where the stolen gold bullion mysteriously disappears, He finds the Professor, an elderly ex-con, and convincing him they used to work together, gets the Professor to get him in to the gang.
25 January 1939
Manuel and Carga are after the hidden map of a gold mine which is somewhere in the hacienda willed to Manuel's brother, Don Careta.
31 March 1940
Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
31 July 1943
This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.
10 March 1941
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
26 October 1943
The Texas Rangers round up rustlers by masquerading as the same. Trouble ensues when while in disguise one of the Rangers is accused of a killing.
10 February 1944
Ranger Tex Wyatt introduces himself as the notorious bandit Spade Norton. Crooked saloon owner Red Hayden believes him until the real Spade turns up and all hell breaks loose.
02 January 1940
When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) suspect murder.
27 June 1939
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
06 September 1943
Texas Ranger O'Brien has an outlaw twin brother. When his sibling is killed, O'Brien assumes his identity in order to infiltrate a gang of stagecoach robbers.
21 November 1941
Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.
04 July 1951
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.
19 April 1939
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
22 August 1930
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
10 July 1935
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production.
08 April 1941
Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions.
09 November 1942
A popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During rehearsals, a battle erupts and the musicians must exchange their musical instruments for guns and fight.
01 May 1942
Knowing the Army is arriving to establish a post. Doc Hagan and his gang and the crooked Sheriff are trying to drive the ranchers off the land.
03 October 1941
Billy the Kid and his pal Jeff help their friend Fuzzy Jones escape from jail, and the trio heads for Paradise Valley, where they find the Paradise Land Development Company, ran by Matt Brawley and Jack Saunders, is somewhat less than honest in their dealings with the homesteaders.
21 March 2006
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
07 May 1945
Charley Gray is about to be released from the state penitentiary after serving a long term for the robbery of a government gold shipment.
12 August 1938
Tex and his sidekicks arrive to help out his friend Jeffers, a railroad owner, only to find that he has been killed.
24 October 1939
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
05 November 1939
Ann Fenwick is a witness to a bank robbery in the U.S. and the bandits, led by Trigger and Leon capture her and when she disappears, a warrant is issued for her arrest as a material witness.
29 April 1938
Ken and Happy, looking for their friend Cherokee, run into an outlaw gang led by Ritter who have been terrorizing the ranchers.
01 August 1939
In an effort to get Jim Martin to sell his ranch, the Halsey brothers have kidnapped his son Tom. When Bob Burke goes after him alone, he gets help from the gang known as the Riders of the Sage.
13 July 1934
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
08 July 1944
This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
02 September 1942
Billy and his pals, on the run from the law again, travel to Sage Valley where Billy is made Sheriff.
06 June 1953
A variety of fanciful innovations in "future" T.V. sets, including a model with a built-in stove, and a number of highly interactive models.
30 March 1940
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
15 August 1941
The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster.
11 June 1940
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence.
26 November 1953
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew.
01 November 1939
Cowhand Ken Clark is stranded in Chicago, and temporarily takes a job as a sharp-shooter entertainer in a night club, with the intention of getting enough money together to get back to his beloved Arizona.
08 February 1945
In this western, the Texas Rangers must stop a range war between sheepherders and cattle ranchers from erupting.
28 October 1932
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
02 May 1945
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
26 April 1944
A masked desperado wants to disrupt the mail service between two frontier communities.
17 June 1932
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit.
02 September 1964
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
04 November 1933
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player.
20 November 1942
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer.
09 November 1935
The singing stoker and the vamp.
