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Hugh O'Brian
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Actor Born: April 19, 1925 in Rochester, NY Biography:American actor "Hugh O'Brian" accrued his interest in acting while dancing with movie starlets at the Hollywood Canteen during his wartime Marine days. O'Brian attended the University of Cincinnati briefly, and later supported himself selling menswear door-to-door. He made his first film, "Never Fear", in 1950, working but sporadically during the next five years; what few acting parts he received were on the basis of his broad shoulders and six-foot height. In one film, "Fireman Save My Child" (1954), O'Brian was cast because he and costar "Buddy Hackett" physically matched the previously filmed long shots of "Fireman"'s original stars, Abbott and Costello. Answering a cattle-call tryout for the new ABC TV western "Wyatt Earp" in 1955, O'Brian was almost instantly chosen for the leading role by author Stuart Lake, who'd known the real Wyatt and had been his biographer for many years (reportedly Earp's... Full Biography
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