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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe sad news comes to us that Hugh O’Brian, the actor who played Wyatt Earp on the television during my youngest days, has passed at the age of 91<\/a>. He was a homeboy of mine, too, born in Rochester, New York as Hugh Charles Krampe. Like most of his generation, he was a veteran, according to Wiki<\/a>;<\/p>\n O’Brian dropped out of the University of Cincinnati after one semester to enlist in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. At seventeen, he became the youngest Marine drill instructor.<\/p>\n After World War II ended, O’Brian moved to Los Angeles. He planned on becoming a lawyer and had been accepted at Yale University in the fall of 1947. He was dating an actress and attending her rehearsals of the Somerset Maugham\u2019s play Home and Beauty when the the lead actor failed to show up. Director Ida Lupino asked him to read the lines. He got the part and the play received a tremendous review. An agent offered to sign O’Brian.<\/p>\n He changed his name after the show’s playbill misspelled his name as “Hugh Krape.” \u201cI decided right then I didn’t want to go through life being known as Huge Krape, so I decided to take my mother’s family name, <\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"Hugh_O'Brian_Wyatt_Earp_1959\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hugh_OBrian_Wyatt_Earp_1959-257x333.jpg\")
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