Highest rated movie: 42nd Street (1933)
Lowest rated movie: Tell Your Children (1938)
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Looking for reviews of Dave O'Brien movies? Cinafilm has a total of 757 reviews across 34 movies.
Movies starring Dave O'Brien have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 54%.
42nd Street - released in 1933 - is Dave O'Brien's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 181 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Dave O'Brien is Tell Your Children - released in 1938 - with a score of 39% based on 315 reviews.
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 has acted in films with Dennis O'Keefe, Sterling Holloway, Bela Lugosi and Charles Middleton.
Dave O'Brien has worked with these film directors: Cecil B. DeMille, William A. Seiter, Lloyd Bacon and Phil Rosen.
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