Dave O'Brien

Hollywood Stars : David Poole Fronabarger

Born Name: David Poole Fronabarger Birthday: 1912-05-31 (Year-Month-Day) Website: Spouse(s): Nancy O Brien (1955-1969) (his death) 3 children Dorothy Short (1936-1954) (divorced) 2 children Children: Medium:

Dave OBrien (actor), Dave OBrien (May 31, 1912 – November 8, 1969) was an American film actor, director and writer. Born David Poole Fronabarger in Big Spring, Texas, OBrien started his film career in bit parts before gradually winning larger roles, mostly in B pictures.[edit] BiographyOBrien became familiar to movie audiences in the 1940s as the hero of the famous MGM comedy short film series Pete Smith Specialties narrated by Pete Smith. OBrien wrote and directed many of these subjects under the name David Barclay.He also appeared in many low-budget Westerns, often billed as Tex OBrien, alluding to his home state. To modern audiences, he is most likely best to be remembered as a frantic dope addict in the low-budget exploitation film Reefer Madness (1936), yelling Play it faster, play it faster!! to a piano-playing girl. He appeared in Queen Of The Yukon (1940) as Bob Adams. In 1940, he appeared in The Devil Bat as part of a comedy team with Donald Kerr. They also appeared together in Son of the Navy (1940) and The Man Who Walked Alone (1945).In 1942, OBrien starred in the movie serial Captain Midnight.One of his later roles was in the film musical version of Kiss Me, Kate (1953), a rare featured role for the actor in an A list big-budget production.OBrien married one of his co-stars of Reefer Madness, Dorothy Short, in 1936, but they divorced in 1954 after having two children. In 1955, he married Nancy OBrien and had three more children. A very keen yachtsman and sailor, he died aged 57 of a heart attack aboard a 60-foot sloop named The White Cloud while competing in a yachting race off the California coast near Catalina Island.[edit] External linksDave OBrien at the Internet Movie Databasev В· d В· ePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy SeriesJames Allardice / Jack Douglas / Hal Kanter / Harry Winkler (1955) В· Arnold M. Auerbach / Barry Blitzer / Vincent Bogert / Nat Hiken / Coleman Jacoby / Harvey Orkin / Arnold Rosen / Terry Ryan / Tony Webster (1956) В· Billy Friedberg / Nat Hiken / Coleman Jacoby / Arnold Rosen / A.J. Russell / Terry Ryan / Phil Sharp / Tony Webster / Sydney Zelinka (1958) В· George Balzer / Hal Goldman / Al Gordon / Sam Perrin (1959) В· George Balzer / Hal Goldman / Al Gordon / Sam Perrin (1960) В· Dave OBrien / Martin Ragaway / Sherwood Schwartz / Al Schwartz / Red Skelton (1961) В· Carl Reiner (1962) В· Carl Reiner (1963) В· Sam Denoff / Bill Persky (1966) В· Buck Henry / Leonard B. Stern (1967) В· Allan Burns / Chris Hayward (1968) В· James L. Brooks / Allan Burns (1971) В· Burt Styler (1972) В· Lee Kalcheim / Michael Ross / Bernie West (1973) В· Treva Silverman (1974) В· Rosalyn Drexler / Ann Elder / Karyl Geld Miller / Robert Illes / Lorne Michaels / Richard Pryor / Jim Rusk / Herb Sargent / James R. Stein / Lily Tomlin / Jane Wagner / Rod Warren / George Yanok (1974) В· Stan Daniels / Ed. Weinberger (1975)Complete list: (1955–1975) В· (1976–2000) В· (2001–present)PersondataNameObrien, DaveAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birthMay 31, 1912Place of birthBig Spring, Texas, USADate of deathNovember 8, 1969Place of deathRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_O%27Brien_(actor)Categories: 1912 births | 1969 deaths | American film actors | American film directors | Deaths from myocardial infarctionHidden categories: Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesFranГ§ais This page was last modified on 3 November 2010 at 19:11.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimersif ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.config.set({wgCanonicalNamespace: , wgCanonicalSpecialPageName: false, wgNamespaceNumber: 0, wgPageName: Dave_O\Brien_(actor), wgTitle: Dave O\Brien (actor), wgAction: view, wgArticleId: 10315931, wgIsArticle: true, wgUserName: null, wgUserGroups: [*], wgCurRevisionId: 394636287, wgCategories: [Infobox person using deprecated parameters, Articles with hCards, 1912 births, 1969 deaths, American film actors, American film directors, Deaths from myocardial infarction], wgBreakFrames: false, wgRestrictionEdit: [], wgRestrictionMove: [], wgFlaggedRevsParams: {tags: {status: {levels: 1, quality: 2, pristine: 3}}}, wgStableRevisionId: null, wgRevContents: {error: Unable to get content., waiting: Waiting for content}, wgWikimediaMobileUrl: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki, wgCollapsibleNavBucketTest: false, wgCollapsibleNavForceNewVersion: false, wgArticleAssessmentJUIPath: http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions-1.17/UsabilityInitiative/js/js2stopgap/jui.combined.min.js, Geo: {city: , country: }, wgNoticeProject: wikipedia});}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.loader.load([mediawiki.legacy.wikibits, mediawiki.util, mediawiki.legacy.ajax, ext.vector.collapsibleNav, ext.vector.collapsibleTabs, ext.vector.editWarning, ext.vector.simpleSearch]);mediaWiki.loader.go();}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.user.options.set({ccmeonemails:0,cols:80,contextchars:50,contextlines:5,date:default,diffonly:0,disablemail:0,disablesuggest:0,editfont:default,editondblclick:0,editsection:1,editsectiononrightclick:0,enotifminoredits:0,enotifrevealaddr:0,enotifusertalkpages:1,enotifwatchlistpages:0,extendwatchlist:0,externaldiff:0,externaleditor:0,fancysig:0,forceeditsummary:0,gender:unknown,hideminor:0,hidepatrolled:0,highlightbroken:1,imagesize:2,justify:0,math:1,minordefault:0,newpageshidepatrolled:0,nocache:0,noconvertlink:0,norollbackdiff:0,numberheadings:0,previewonfirst:0,previewontop:1,quickbar:1,rcdays:7,rclimit:50,rememberpassword:0,rows:25,searchlimit:20,showhiddencats:0,showjumplinks:1,shownumberswatching:1,showtoc:1,showtoolbar:1,skin:vector,stubthreshold:0,thumbsize:4,underline:2,uselivepreview:0,usenewrc:0,watchcreations:1,watchdefault:0,watchdeletion:0,watchlistdays:3,watchlisthideanons:0,watchlisthidebots:0,watchlisthideliu:0,watchlisthideminor:0,watchlisthideown:0,watchlisthidepatrolled:0,watchmoves:0,wllimit:250,flaggedrevssimpleui:1,flaggedrevsstable:false,flaggedrevseditdiffs:true,flaggedrevsviewdiffs:false,vector-simplesearch:1,useeditwarning:1,vector-collapsiblenav:1,usebetatoolbar:1,usebetatoolbar-cgd:1,variant:en,language:en,searchNs0:true,searchNs1:false,searchNs2:false,searchNs3:false,searchNs4:false,searchNs5:false,searchNs6:false,searchNs7:false,searchNs8:false,searchNs9:false,searchNs10:false,searchNs11:false,searchNs12:false,searchNs13:false,searchNs14:false,searchNs15:false,searchNs100:false,searchNs101:false,searchNs108:false,searchNs109:false});mediaWiki.loader.state({user.options:ready});} if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha();