Job Actor: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Years active 1948-1995
Top Roles Carl Smith, Lt. Robert Harley, Mike Devereaux, Dick Fasken, U.S. Army Air Corps major
Top GenresWestern, Drama, Action, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Top TopicsBook-Based, Screwball Comedy, World War II
Top Collaborators , , (Producer), (Producer)
Shares birthday with Madge Kennedy, Constance Talmadge, Nevill Coghill  see more..

Hugh O'Brian Overview:

Actor, Hugh O'Brian, was born Hugh Charles Krampe on Apr 19, 1925 in Rochester, NY. O'Brian died at the age of 91 on Sep 5, 2016 in Beverly Hills, CA .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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The Youth Leadership Foundation

By The Metzinger Sisters on Jun 28, 2017 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

Back in 1958, , the handsome star of the popular western television series Wyatt Earp received a cable from Dr. Albert Schweitzer, a renowned humanitarian who was currently working in a hospital he built on the banks of the Ogooue River in French Equatorial Africa. The message simply rea... Read full article


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Hugh O'Brian Quotes:

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Clay Gipson: How's that, Wade? Hit him every time!
Sheriff Wade Addams: Well, your marksmanship: not bad; but you speed, not so good. That's because you're wastin' a lot of time slappin' leather. You're wearin' your gunbelt a little too high. That's it, lower it a little. You gotta have your wrist just so it's about touchin' your gun handle. That's about right. Now watch... you watch his eyes, never his hands.
[Addams puts a hole right between the eyes of Tris Hatten's wanted poster]


U.S. Army Air Corps Major, Liz Eddington's Lover: [searching the skies with a hand over his eyes; spots the first six planes] My God, they're Japs.
Liz Eddington: What?
U.S. Army Air Corps Major, Liz Eddington's Lover: They're Japs... MY GOD, THEY'RE JAPS!
[Exeunt, hastily, getting strafed all the way]


Frank Hudson: What did you try to do? Make love to her while telling her she just became a widow?


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Hugh O'Brian Facts
One of the first celebrities to frontline tours of Vietnam at the request of the State Department, Hugh once staged and directed a company of "Guys and Dolls" which toured Vietnam, Thailand and Japan for the troops.

Hugh O'Brian and teacher Virginia Barber had dated for 18 years before their marriage on June 25, 2006, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif. It was his first marriage; her second. She was 54; he was 83. The Rev. Robert Schuller, pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, officiated, and the couple was serenaded by close friend Debbie Reynolds. Dubbed "A Wedding to Die For", the ceremony concluded with a cocktail reception.

Was once a soda-jerk at Schwab's drug store on Sunset Boulevard

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