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Dave O'Brien
Known for: ActingFrom 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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New Frontier
as Jason Braddock 
The Devil Bat
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as Johnny Layton 
Kiss Me Kate
+3
as Ralph 
Rasputin and the Empress
as Soldier (uncredited) 
Forbidden Trails
as Jim Cramer 
Down Texas Way
as Dave Dodge 
Undercover Agent
as Billiards Player 
Son of the Navy
as Nelson 
Bowery at Midnight
+2
as Det. Pete Crawford 
Tell Your Children
+6
as Ralph 
The Dawn Patrol
as Pilot (uncredited) 
Flaming Bullets
as Dave Wyatt / Steve Carson 
Three in the Saddle
as Dave Wyatt 
Gangsters of the Frontier
as Dave Wyatt 
Devil and the Deep
as Submarine Crewman (uncredited) 
Captain Midnight
as Captain Albright / Captain Midnight 
Fighting Valley
as Tex Wyatt 
The Phantom of 42nd Street
as Tony Woolrich 
Is My Face Red?
as Chorus Boy (uncredited) 
Water Rustlers
as Bob Lawson 
Consolation Marriage
as Man Picking Up Stack of Newspapers (uncredited) 
She Married Her Boss
as Shopper 
Murder on the Yukon
as Constable Kelly 
Spooks Run Wild
+2
as Jeff Dixon 
The Man Who Walked Alone
as Marion Scott 
The Kettles in the Ozarks
as Conductor 
Mutiny in the Big House
as Daniels 
Queen of the Yukon
as Bob Adams 
The Return of the Rangers
as Tex Wyatt 
Boys of the City
as Knuckles Dolan 
The Gunman From Bodie
as Joe Martin 
Billy the Kid Wanted
as Jeff 
The Rangers Take Over
as Tex Wyatt 
Brand of the Devil
as Tex Wyatt 
Riders of the Sage
as Tom Martin 
Enemy of the Law
as Dave Wyatt 
Spook Town
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as Tex Wyatt 
The Cowboy from Sundown
as Steve Davis 
Sheriff of Sage Valley
as Jeff 
Where the Buffalo Roam
as Jeff Gray 
That Gang of Mine
as Knuckles Dolan 
Flying Wild
as Tom Lawson 
Marked for Murder
as Dave Wyatt 
Code of the Cactus
as Bob Swane 
Guns of the Law
as Tex Wyatt 
Bad Men of Thunder Gap
as Tex Wyatt 
Brothers of the West
as Bart 
Dead or Alive
as Dave Wyatt 
Law and Order
as Jeff Travis 
The Pinto Bandit
as Tex Wyatt 
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
as Sgt. Phil Lyons 
Outlaw Roundup
as Tex Wyatt 
Danger Ahead
as Corporal Kelly 
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
as Jeff 
Trail of Terror
as Tex Wyatt / Curly Wyatt 
Sky Bandits
as Constable Kelly 
Frontier Fugitives
as Dave Wyatt 
East Side Kids
+1
as Knuckles Dolan 
Crashing Thru
as Fred Chambers 
Boss of Rawhide
as Tex Wyatt 
Gunsmoke Mesa
as Tex Wyatt 
West of Texas
as Tex Wyatt 
Yukon Flight
as Constable Kelly 
The Whispering Skull
+4
as Dave Wyatt 
Border Buckaroos
as Tex Wyatt 
Fighting Mad
as Constable Kelly