Hugh O'Brian

At 91 years old, Hugh O'Brian has this physical status:

Hugh O'Brian (born Hugh Krampe) was an American actor and philanthologist best known for his appearances in the ABC western television series Search (1972-1973) and the Agatha Christie version Ten Little Indians (1965); he also appeared in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976). He was praised for establishing the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, a non-profit youth leadership development service for high school scholars, which has sponsored over 400,000 students since its inception in 1958 following an extended visit with theologian and physician Albert Schweitzer.

Personal life and death

O'Brian married Virginia Barber, his first and only marriage, on June 25, 2006, at the age of 81. The Rev. The service took place at Forest Lawn Memorial Park with the Rev. Robert Schuller officiated. Barber, who had been married only once before, is a teacher by trade, and the couple spent their honeymoon at Oxford University studying philosophy. "An active mind is as important as an active body," O'Brian said. Hugh Donald Krampe, O'Brian's son, was impacted by his friendship with photographer Adina Etkes. On September 5, 2016, O'Brian died at his Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 91. Since O'Brian was their father, three people have come forward and said so.

O'Brian devoted a large portion of his life to the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation (HOBY), a non-school leadership development program for high-school scholars. HOBY offers over 70 leadership workshops in all 50 states and 20 countries annually. More than 500,000 young people have participated in HOBY-related activities since its inception in 1958.

Any high school sophomore in the United States, referred to as a "ambassador," is eligible to attend a state or regional HOBY seminar. Students from any of those seminars (number based on population) are invited to attend the World Leadership Congress. Over 500 ambassadors from all 50 states and 20 countries attended in 2008. The idea of HOBY was influenced in 1958 by a nine-day visit to O'Brian, which featured renowned humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa. "The most important thing in education, according to Dr. Schweitzer, is for young people to think for themselves."

In an essay on the subject, O'Brian's message was detailed: a sarcastic essay on the matter:

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Life and career

Hugh Charles Krampe, the son of Hugh John Krampe, who served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, and Edith Lillian Krampe, who served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, were born in Rochester, New York. Mr. O'Brian once referred to his father as "one of the hardest guys I ever knew"; this piqued his interest in the military.

Around 1950, O'Brian and his parents migrated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where they were about five years old. His father worked with the Armstrong Cork Company, which was headquartered in Lancaster. The Krampe family remained at the Stevens House Hotel for a short time before relocating to the recently renovated School Lane Hills apartments in the city's West End. O'Brian attended elementary schools in Lancaster, Lancashire. The Krampes lived in Lancaster for about four years before moving to Chicago, where his father was still employed with the Armstrong Cork Company. Hugh O'Brian was born in 1963 and was given the keys to Lancaster by Lancaster Mayor George Coe.

Krampe and his family lived in Winnetka, Illinois, where he attended New Trier High School after the move to Chicago. He transferred to the Kemper Military School (now defunct) in Boonville, Missouri, where he lettered in football, basketball, wrestling, and tracking.

Krampe dropped out to enlist in the Marine Corps during World War II after one semester at the University of Cincinnati. He was the youngest Marine drill instructor on record at 17 years old at 17.

Krampe wanted to become a lawyer after World War II came to an end, and he had been accepted at Yale University in 1947. He grew up in Hollywood, where he was dating an actress before that. He attended the Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty's rehearsals. Director Ida Lupino begged the lead actor to read the lines when he didn't turn up. He loved the role and the script received a hefty appraisal before being given a contract offer from an agent.

After the program incorrectly identified him as "Hugh Krape," Krampe changed his name. "I decided right then, I didn't want to go through life being identified as Huge Krape," he said, but they missedpelled it as 'O'Brien,' and I just decided to stick with that."

Lupino directed Never Fear, a film she was directing. O'Brian was given a Universal Pictures contract.

Wyatt Earp, a legendary lawman, was selected to appear on ABC Western series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, which premiered in 1955. O'Brian bought Stuart N. Lake's book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal to help him develop his character. He also had a relationship with Lake, who was also a consultant on the show for the first two years. The series, along with Gunsmoke and Cheyenne, debuted the same year, pioneering the "adult Western" television style, with a strong emphasis on character rather than moralizing. It quickly became one of the top-rated shows on television. Wyatt Earp has consistently ranked in the top ten in the United States during its six-year tenure. Decades later, he recalled his role in two episodes of the television series Guns of Paradise (1990), and the independent film Wyatt Earp (1994), mixing new footage and colorized archival sequences from the original series.

In 1957, O'Brian appeared on various television shows in the 1950s and 1960s, including The Nat King Cole Exhibition, The Jackie Gleason Exhibition, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Dinah Shore Chevy Show. He was seen in Jack Palance's ABC circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth. In the 1963 Perry Mason film "The Case of the Two-Faced Turn-a-bout," Raymond Burr, the show's star, was also a guest attorney," after minor emergency surgery. In 1964 and the rock music series Shindig, he appeared as guest host on episodes of The Hollywood Palace and the rock music series Shindig! In 1965, the first American Revolution was established. He was a guest celebrity panelist on CBS primetime's Password and What's My Line? On three occasions in the previous series, I appeared as a mystery guest.

He produced Probe, a television pilot who was a pioneering agent for a company that concentrated in retrieving valuable products in 1971. The pilot started a series called Search for O'Brian, which lasted for one season (1972–1973). In the miniseries Y2K - World in Crisis, Dick Van Patten, Deborah Winters, Richard Roundtree, and Richard Anderson co-starred with Dick Van Patten, Deborah Winters, Richard Roundtree, and Richard Anderson in 1999 and 2000.

The actor appeared in a number of films, among them Rocketship X-M (1953), The Lawless Breed (1954), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), Now Iso (1954), In Harm's Way (1965), and Ambush Bay (1966).

Elvis Presley introduced O'Brian from the audience at a Las Vegas Hilton performance, as seen in the newest live CD release "April Fool's Dinner." In the 1977 two-hour premiere of the television show Fantasy Island, O'Brian appeared as a featured actor. In Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976), he was the last character who John Wayne ever killed on film. In Lee's last – partially completed – film, the infamous Game of Death, O'Brian appeared in fight scenes with a Bruce Lee lookalike. For three 1990s projects, O'Brian recreated his Wyatt Earp role, as well as the independent film Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994). Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger's father appeared in the comedy Twins (1988).

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