All us kids boys and girls wanted a “Buttline Special” cap-gun.
Ok. We are really getting close to the end.
I was attending a football game 20 years ago and was going up the team’s hotel escalator, when I saw this guy going down who looked familiar to me. I was staring at him trying to figure out who he was and just as he passed me, he whistled the theme music from Wyatt Earp. I started laughing when I realized it was Hugh O’Brian and since he had already passed me, I turned around looked down at him and said thank you and he turned around looking up at me and said “thank you!” A moment I will never forget. May he Rest In Peace!
who all remembers the show “Search” with him and Franciosa and McClure and Burgess Meredith? That was a cool show.
He was one of the good guys.
Somebody help me here.......is Clint Walker the only one left of those old western TV shows? I’ve gone over it again and again trying to come up with someone else that might still be with us. We loved Wyatt Earp......RIP Mr. O’Brien and thanks for the memories.
He was a Marine I believe.
He did a play at Melodyland Theater in Anaheim. Cast and crew were invited to a pool party at his house. I went and he was very pleasant.
One of my daughters was a HOBY award winner many years ago. It was a good program teaching young juniors about being leaders. By all accounts, Mr. OBrian seemed like a very good person. One little tidbit many may not know, he was a United States Marine during WWII as a drill instructor. Oooohh Rahh! As the third verse of the Marine Corps Hymn states, he’s guarding the gates of heaven.