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Known for:	Twins, The Shootist, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Birth name:	Hugh Charles Krampe
Birthday:	19 April 1925, Rochester, New York, USA

Founder of HOBY (Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership), seeks out and helps recognize leadership potential in highschool sophomores. Brother of Don Krampe According to an article on TV westerns in Time Magazine (March 30, 1959), O'Brian stood 6 feet tall, weighed 170 lbs, and had chest-waist-hips measurements of 44-32-36 Attended Kemper Military School & College in Boonville, Missouri. Was the youngest Drill Instructor in Marine Corps history - Age 17. Was once a soda-jerk at Schwab's drug store on Sunset Boulevard One of the first celebrities to frontline tours of Vietnam at the request of the State Department, Hugh once staged and directed a company of "Guys and Dolls" which toured Vietnam, Thailand and Japan for the troops. The Hugh O'Brian Acting Awards Competition was developed in 1964 at UCLA with cash awards going to acting talents. Was awarded one of the space community's highest honors with the 1972 Freedom Award for his variety of space-orientated projects, including the Hugh O'Brien Youth Foundation seminars at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Once recorded an album of popular songs and sang on the Ed Sullivan, Dinah Shore and Jackie Gleason variety shows. Hugh's vast investments over the years have been wise and fruitful with dividends paying well in stocks and bonds, real estate, bowling alleys, a building equipment firm, a theatre-in-the-round, an oil syndicate and his own TV production company. Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1992. Hugh O'Brian and teacher Virginia Barber had dated for 18 years before their marriage on June 25, 2006, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif. It was his first marriage; her second. She was 54; he was 81. The Rev. Robert Schuller, pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, officiated, and the couple was serenaded by close friend Debbie Reynolds. Dubbed "A Wedding to Die For", the ceremony concluded with a cocktail reception. Alumnus of New Trier High School, Winnetka, Illinois, 1941. Was the last person killed on screen by John Wayne, in The Shootist (1976).

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