Hugh O'Brian
Hugh O'Brian (born Hugh Charles Krampe) was a prominent American actor and humanitarian best known for starring as the legendary frontier lawman in the ABC Western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp from 1955 to 1961 and the NBC action television series Search (1972–1973), as well as films, including the Agatha Christie adaptation Ten Little Indians (1965) and a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976). Known for his athletic, square-jawed build and quick-draw skills, he became one of television's definitive early Western heroes. Beyond acting, he left a massive global legacy as the founder of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation (HOBY), a nonprofit organization that has trained over 500,000 high school scholars in leadership and service.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7798 |
| Birthday | 1925-04-19 |
| Place of Birth | Rochester, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Hugh Charles Krampe, Hugh O'Brien, |
1968
The Movie Orgy
6.842/19
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...
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The Movie Orgy
1965
Love Has Many Faces
5.222/9
A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.
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Love Has Many Faces
1965
Ten Little Indians
6.298/141
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.
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Ten Little Indians
1954
There's No Business Like Show Business
6.08/113
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fa...
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There's No Business Like Show Business
1984
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
0/0
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpt...
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
1976
The Shootist
7.1/396
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from...
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The Shootist
1988
Twins
6.054/2607
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proporti...
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Twins
1978
Cruise Into Terror
5.125/8
An Egyptian sarcophagus that is cargo on a pleasure cruise ship has a secret - it contains the son of Satan, and its effects start to make the ship's...
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Cruise Into Terror
1954
Broken Lance
6.5/87
Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the ranch.
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Broken Lance
1952
The Cimarron Kid
6.109/23
Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old frie...
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The Cimarron Kid
1951
Vengeance Valley
5.4/60
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, a...
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Vengeance Valley
1950
Rocketship X-M
4.9/56
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations ca...
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Rocketship X-M
1953
Seminole
5.6/31
Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
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Seminole
1953
The Man from the Alamo
6.6/43
During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish...
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The Man from the Alamo
1984
Bruce Lee, the Legend
7.9/114
The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee.
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Bruce Lee, the Legend
1971
The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
8/2
A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida.
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The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
1976
Killer Force
5.4/19
Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly m...
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Killer Force
1977
Fantasy Island
7.5/5
Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a brief romance that took place in London 30 years ago...
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Fantasy Island
1966
Ambush Bay
5.583/12
A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.
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Ambush Bay
1950
Never Fear
6.233/30
A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has con...
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Never Fear
1952
The Lawless Breed
6.7/24
After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished re...
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The Lawless Breed
1954
Drums Across the River
5.8/24
All the gold in a small Colorado town has been panned, save for a bit on land belonging to the Ute. Greedy Frank Walker rounds up the locals and makes...
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Drums Across the River
1975
Murder on Flight 502
5.806/18
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
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Murder on Flight 502
1958
The Fiend Who Walked the West
6.4/5
A convicted bank robber, serving his sentence and yearning for freedom, becomes entangled with a psychotic, homicidal inmate. This inmate turns on him...
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The Fiend Who Walked the West
1952
Sally and Saint Anne
8.7/3
An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.
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Sally and Saint Anne
1963
Come Fly with Me
5/13
Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.
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Come Fly with Me
1951
Cave of Outlaws
5.433/15
Having served a prison sentence for robbery, Pete Carver decides to go back for the hidden loot. But someone is on his trail.
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Cave of Outlaws
1956
The Brass Legend
6.3/9
During a ride with his new pony Sinoya, the young Clay Gibson by chance finds the secret housing of the multiple murderer Tris Hatten. He reports imme...
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The Brass Legend
1951
Little Big Horn
6.1/14
Two cavalry officers (Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland) lead a patrol to warn Gen. Custer about an ambush.
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Little Big Horn
1954
Saskatchewan
5.981/26
Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the Great...
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Saskatchewan
1970
Wild Women
6.3/7
Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840
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Wild Women
1952
The Red Ball Express
6/22
August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the m...
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The Red Ball Express
1953
Back to God's Country
6.7/3
In a small village in the icy wilderness of Alaska Captain Peter Keith has to defend himself against two especially mean villains, who are after his w...
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Back to God's Country
1955
The Twinkle In God's Eye
7.5/2
A reverend goes West to a town where the Indians killed his priest-father and burned his church but the local townsfolk are keener about cash than rel...
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The Twinkle In God's Eye
1972
Probe
5.8/5
That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner, detect...
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Probe
1951
On the Loose
6.6/5
After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, desperate teenager Jill Bradley (Joan Evans) makes a...
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On the Loose
1949
D.O.A.
6.853/205
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determi...
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D.O.A.
1967
Africa: Texas Style!
9/1
Two American cowboys are hired by a British rancher to oversee his estate in Kenya. Shot on location in Africa, this film led to the TV show Cowboy in...
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Africa: Texas Style!
1950
Beyond the Purple Hills
9/1
Gene Autry becomes the new Sheriff after bank robbers kill the former sheriff. When Judge Beaumont is murdered, evidence points to the judge's wild so...
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Beyond the Purple Hills
1969
Strategy of Terror
9/1
A reporter and a New York City cop team up to find out who is trying to assassinate a UN leader. Film was a re-edit of two Kraft Suspense Theatre epi...
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Strategy of Terror
1977
Benny & Barney: Las Vegas Undercover
8/1
Two undercover cops find their avocation -- a musical act -- helpful in tapping informants on the Las Vegas Strip regarding the alleged kidnapping of...
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Benny & Barney: Las Vegas Undercover
1952
The Raiders
6.25/8
A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous claim-jumpers who have stolen his claim and murdered...
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The Raiders
1950
The Return of Jesse James
6/2
Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.
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The Return of Jesse James
1952
The Battle at Apache Pass
6.6/21
Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically am...
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The Battle at Apache Pass
1999
Television: The First Fifty Years
0/0
Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter...
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Television: The First Fifty Years
2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
5.25/4
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
1994
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
6.5/15
Combining colorized footage from the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) with new scenes shot in Tombstone, Arizona, this film...
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Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
1953
The Stand at Apache River
6.357/14
Sheriff Lane Dakota captures robbery-murder suspect Greiner just as the latter is wounded in an Apache ambush. At remote outpost Apache River, Lane an...
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The Stand at Apache River
1951
Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
6/2
At the end of the Civil War, Sam White returns home to his ranch in the Texas ranch -The Panhandle - to find it in the hands of a gang of outlaws
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Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
1955
White Feather
6.821/14
The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surv...
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White Feather
1954
Fireman Save My Child
8/2
Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.
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Fireman Save My Child
1978
Game of Death
6.39/757
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
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Game of Death
1951
Fighting Coast Guard
6.667/3
Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
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Fighting Coast Guard
1967
Dial M for Murder
7.5/2
Wealthy Margo Wendice's husband (Laurence Harvey) plots her murder to inherit her fortune after discovering her affair, leading to a tense, failed, an...
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Dial M for Murder
1971
Harpy
5.667/3
Architect's life is plagued by his ex-wife, a master manipulator, whose constant clawing is about to drive off his new love, and his clientèle. As a h...
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Harpy
1990
Gunsmoke: The Last Apache
7/12
James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the US Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 TV series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named...
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Gunsmoke: The Last Apache
1959
Alias Jesse James
6.069/29
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent t...
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Alias Jesse James
2001
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
7/2
Documentary short about the making of John Wayne's final movie, the 1976 film The Shootist.
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The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
1965
Assassination in Rome
5.5/10
In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate...
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Assassination in Rome
1953
Meet Me at the Fair
7.667/3
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions...
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Meet Me at the Fair
1948
Kidnapped
6.667/3
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
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Kidnapped
1988
Doin' Time on Planet Earth
4.042/12
Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Holiday Inn they own in Sunnyvale, Arizona, the prune...
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Doin' Time on Planet Earth
1954
Moby Dick
9/1
The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.
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Moby Dick
1961
Feathertop
9/1
When Madame Eau Charme, a social-climbing witch, fails to receive an invitation to the Governor's Ball, the most prestigious event of the season, she...
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Feathertop
1991
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
4.8/10
Hawkes, Jones and Cassidy are on their way to the biggest poker game in history. But a few folks want to see them fold before they even get there.
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The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
1957
Invitation to a Gunfighter
0/0
A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The...
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Invitation to a Gunfighter
1952
Son of Ali Baba
5.6/15
In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl w...
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Son of Ali Baba
2003
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
8/1
A retrospective of the 50-year history of the American Broadcasting Company, showcasing clips from past shows and current programs.
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ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
1965
In Harm's Way
6.57/166
A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
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In Harm's Way
1970
Swing Out, Sweet Land
5.667/6
John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
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