Biography
Dave O'Brien was an American film actor, stunt man, film director, and Emmy awarded comedy writer. He was well known for his portrayal, in the 1942 serial films of the title character in Captain Midnight, performer and comedy writer in the Pete Smith Specialties and as one of Red Skelton's comedy writers.
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Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series · 1961
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame · 1960
Filmography50+ titles
Three in the Saddle
The Cowboy from Sundown
Texas Wildcats
Outlaws' Paradise
Man's Country
Crashing Thru
The Singing Cowgirl
Born to Be Wild
The Red Skelton Show
That's Entertainment, Part II
Frontier Fugitives
Brand of the Devil
Spook Town
The Rangers Take Over
Hold That Woman!
Gun Packer
Utah Trail
Starlight Over Texas
Whirlwind Horseman
42nd Street
The Fighting Renegade
The Dawn Patrol
Boss of Rawhide
Kiss Me Kate
Down Texas Way
Riders of the Sage
East Side Kids
The Sign of the Cross
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Captain Midnight
Brothers of the West
Son of the Navy
Code of the Cactus
Flying Wild
The Arizona Kid
Flaming Bullets
Enemy of the Law
Guns of the Law
The Whispering Skull
Murder by Invitation
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Queen of the Yukon
Frontier Scout
The Man Who Walked Alone
Madam Satan
That Gang of Mine
New Frontier
Sheriff of Sage Valley
Isle Of Destiny
Sky Bandits