First wife Dorothy Short was a "B" actress in westerns and appeared with him in the cult classic Reefer Madness (1936) (original title "Tell Your Children" but better known as "Reefer Madness"), the serial Captain Midnight (1942) and the Pete Smith ...
[Just prior to his death] I've had a full, enjoyable life, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.
An accomplished stuntman, he made a series of comedy shorts in the 1940s for MGM in which he took spectacular pratfalls.
Dave Barclay
David Poole Fronabarger
Big Spring, Texas, USA
(age 57)
Catalina Island, California, USA