Dave O'Brien
American actor and director (1912-1969) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 57
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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Lloyd Bacon Directed 42nd Street and Footlight Parade
Gail Patrick Also in Murder at the Vanities and Rumba
Charles Middleton Also in The Sign of the Cross and Wyoming Outlaw
Guy Kibbee Also in 42nd Street and Footlight Parade
Louis J. Gasnier Directed Reefer Madness and Murder on the Yukon
George Sherman Directed New Frontier and Wyoming Outlaw
Buster Keaton Produced Speak Easily (1932)
Bela Lugosi Also in The Devil Bat and Bowery at Midnight
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced 42nd Street (1933)
Ann Sheridan Also in Murder at the Vanities (1934)
Dick Powell Also in 42nd Street and Footlight Parade
Busby Berkeley Directed Wonder Bar (1934)
Harry Warren Wrote 42nd Street and Footlight Parade
Charles King Also in The Rangers Take Over (1942)
George Irving Also in 42nd Street and Wonder Bar
Lloyd Ingraham Also in The Man Who Walked Alone and Ship Cafe
Lona Andre Also in College Humor and Murder at the Vanities
Edward Nugent Also in 42nd Street and College Humor
Richard Alexander Also in The Sign of the Cross and Reefer Madness
Frank Sully Also in Murder at the Vanities (1934)
John Wayne Also in New Frontier and Wyoming Outlaw
Cecil B. DeMille Produced The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Karl Freund Directed Gift of Gab (1934)
Kurt Neumann Produced The Desperados Are in Town (1956)
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United States
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Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1912 to 1969 · aged 57
