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Acting

Hugh O'Brian

Career: Active from 1950 to 1994, with a break from 1979 to 1993, with up to 5 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 21
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Invitation to a Gunfighter
83/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 50 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Hugh O'Brian Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.6, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.9, average 3.0
Absurdist Humor
1.0, average 2.0
Cringe Humor
1.2, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 5
Social Commentary 5
Western 4
Classic Western 4
Historical Setting 3
Escapist Fantasy 2
Frontier Justice 2
Black-and-White Cinema 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

84

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

3 titles · average score 61

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

63

as Wyatt Earp

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

56

as Wyatt Earp

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache

64

as Gen. Nelson Miles

1980s

6 titles · average score 64

Twins

52

as Granger

Paradise

70

TV show · as Wyatt Earp

Doin' Time on Planet Earth

43

as Richard Camalier

L.A. Law

77

TV show · as Raymond Holtz

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Fred Keppard

Matt Houston

64

TV show · as Thomas 'Buck' McCune

1970s

15 titles · average score 59

The Seekers

72

TV show · as Andrew Piggot

Game of Death

48

as Steiner

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Gabriel

Fantasy Island

73

as Paul Henley

Benny & Barney: Las Vegas Undercover

as Jack Davis

The Shootist

77

as Jack Pulford

Killer Force

40

as Lewis

Charlie's Angels

44

TV show · as Tony Mann

Probe

64

as Hugh Lockwood

Search

76

TV show · as Hugh Lockwood

Harpy

as Peter Clune

Wild Women

59

as Killian

1960s

16 titles · average score 59

Strategy of Terror

as Matt Lacey

Africa: Texas Style!

47

as Jim Sinclair

Dial M for Murder

as Mark Halliday

Ambush Bay

50

as Sgt. Steve Corey

Ten Little Indians

64

as Hugh Lombard

Love Has Many Faces

47

as Hank Walker

Assassination in Rome

54

as Dick Sherman

Come Fly with Me

56

as First Officer Ray Winsley

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

66

TV show · as Quinton Morrow / Mig Semple

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

54

TV show · as Christopher Martin

The Virginian

70

TV show · as Paul Taylor

Feathertop

as Feathertop

1950s

42 titles · average score 64

The Fiend Who Walked the West

64

as Daniel Slade Hardy

Invitation to a Gunfighter

83

as Matt Jeffers

The Brass Legend

62

as Sheriff Wade Addams

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

72

TV show · as Wyatt Earp

The Twinkle In God's Eye

as Marty Callahan

Saskatchewan

62

as Carl Smith

Broken Lance

75

as Mike Devereaux

Fireman Save My Child

as Smitty

The Man from the Alamo

82

as Lt. Lamar

Son of Ali Baba

47

as Hussein

Never Fear

62

as Len Randall

Rocketship X-M

38

as Harry Chamberlain

1940s

2 titles · average score 72

D.O.A.

80

as Jazz Fan (uncredited)

Kidnapped

64

as Sailor (uncredited)