Hugh O'Brian

Love Has Many Faces

Director: Alexander Singer
1965

He joined the Marines at age 18 and became one of the youngest drill instructors in the Corp's history. Before long Hollywood got him and he found minor success in action movies, and then major success in television. From 1955 to 1961, as the star of ABC's The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, he was a full-fledged TV western hero. (If you go to an open window right this very minute and toss a penny out into the street, it will probably land on somebody who can still sing the Wyatt Earp theme song -- but I digress.) Even though Hugh O'Brian owes most of his name-recognition status to Wyatt Earp, he also found considerable success with various business enterprises and he eventually earned much respect for his various charitable activities. But perhaps more important than anything else was the fact that as late as 1965 he still looked just terrific in skin-tight bathing trunks -- which of course is fundamentally what many of our better films are all about.

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