An organic EL element drive circuit comprises a current mirror circuit including an input side transistor supplied with a predetermined current and a plurality of output side transistors provided correspondingly to terminal pins of an organic EL display panel, for obtaining drive currents to be supplied to the respective terminal pins, a switch circuit connected in parallel to or in series with the input side transistor of the current mirror circuit, a memory for storing display data indicative of luminous intensities of the organic EL elements driven through the terminal pins and a control circuit for ON/OFF controlling the switch circuit to cut predetermined current supplied to the input side transistor when the display data stored in the memory for one horizontal display line or for a part of the one horizontal display line indicates that the organic EL elements are not to be driven.