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)
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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:

Margot Eliot: What do I like about you?
Hank Walker: You want me to tell you? Or show you?


Sheriff Wade Addams: There's a few punchin' jobs open.
George Barlow: We don't like nursemaidin' cows. Hard on the hands.
Earl Barlow: Never did like rope burns.
Sheriff Wade Addams: Well, on the hands they're not so bad, but on *other* parts of the body, they'd be kind of irritating.


Mize: Those dime novels which do nothing but glorify their subjects are a thing of the past, Mr. Earp. Now, my publisher wants the facts behind the legend; the real Wyatt Earp, warts and all, Mr. Marshal.
Marshal Wyatt Earp: I don't know that warts is how I want to be remembered, Mr. Mize.


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Hugh O'Brian Facts
Broke into acting by happenstance. Dating an actress in Los Angeles at the time, he visited her at a couple of her rehearsals for a play. The director asked Hugh to step in after the leading man dropped out of the show. An L.A. Times reporter saw the production and gave Hugh excellent reviews.

Was the youngest Drill Instructor in Marine Corps history - Age 17.

Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1992.

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