Hugh O'Brian
Hugh O'Brian, born Hugh Charles Krampe (April 19, 1925 – September 5, 2016)O'Brian was an actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961) and Search (1972–1973), as well as films including the Agatha Christie adaptation Ten Little Indians (1965); he also had a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976). He was highly regarded for creating the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, a non-profit youth leadership development program for high school scholars which has sponsored over 400,000 students since he founded the program in 1958 following an extended visit with Nobel Peace Prize-winning theologian and physician Albert Schweitzer. O'Brian also appeared in fight scenes with a Bruce Lee lookalike in Lee's last – partially completed – film, the controversial Game of Death. O'Brian recreated his Wyatt Earp role for three 1990s projects: Guns of Paradise (1990) and The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991), with fellow actor Gene Barry doing likewise as lawman Bat Masterson for each, as well as the independent film Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994). He also had a small role in the Danny DeVito/Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy Twins (1988). O'Brian died at his home in Beverly Hills, California on September 5, 2016 at the age of 91. He is buried at Forest Lawn in Glendale, CA.
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