Dave O'Brien Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety for "The Red Skelton Show" in 1960
• Made his screen acting debut with a bit part in the 1930 film "The Dawn Patrol․"
• Worked as a welder and in a drug store before getting into the acting business
• Was also a band singer, appearing early in his career in the chorus line in the 1933 film "42nd Street․"
• Best known as the head writer of "The Red Skelton Show" and for his film roles in "Captain Midnight" and "Brand of the Devil․"
• Played the "Bungler" in several of Pete Smith's two-reel films in the 1940s
• Had a memorable role as a marijuana addict in the 1936 classic camp film "Reefer Madness․"