What famous actor met Wyatt Earp at the beginning of his career as a film extra?
THE LIFE & LEGEND OF WYATT EARP aired on ABC with Hugh O’Brian as Wyatt Earp. An action packed Western drama loosely based on the real life character & featured many other historically well known characters, both good guys & bad guys. The program was one of the very first Westerns aimed at strictly adult audiences. Marshall Wyatt Earp was identified by his “Buntline Special” pistols that had barrels that were a foot long! Despite leading a very dangerous lifestyle, the real Wyatt Earp lived 81 years! He was born in 1848 and died in 1929. Hugh O’Brian as the heroic Marshall, in this top-rated ABC Television series ran from 1955 until 1961. The series begins with Earp in Ellsworth, Kansas, where he meets with Ned Buntline who presents Marshal Earp with a pair of oversize Colt .45 revolvers with lengthened 16 inch barrels which Ned calls “Buntline Specials”. By season two we find our hero in Dodge City, and in subsequent series he has travelled to Tombstone. Set in the Kansas towns of Ell
John Wayne. On the set of one movie, he met a young extra and prop man who would eventually become John Wayne. Wayne later told Hugh O’Brian that he based his image of the Western lawman on his conversations with Earp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Earp#Life_after_Tombstone Life after Tombstone After the killing of Curley Bill, the Earps left Arizona and headed to Colorado. Sherman McMasters made it to Colorado with the Earps, contrary to the movie Tombstone that showed him being murdered on orders from Johnny Ringo. In a stop over in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Wyatt and Holliday had a falling out but remained on fairly good terms. The group split up after that, with Holliday heading to Pueblo and then Denver. The Earps and Texas Jack set up camp on the outskirts of Gunnison, Colorado, where they remained quiet at first, rarely going into town for supplies. Eventually, Wyatt took over a faro ga
John Wayne worked as an extra and prop hand early in his acting career. He would meet Wyatt Earp on the set of a movie. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
THE LIFE & LEGEND OF WYATT EARP aired on ABC with Hugh O’Brian as Wyatt Earp. An action packed Western drama loosely based on the real life character & featured many other historically well known characters, both good guys & bad guys. The program was one of the very first Westerns aimed at strictly adult audiences. Marshall Wyatt Earp was identified by his “Buntline Special” pistols that had barrels that were a foot long! Despite leading a very dangerous lifestyle, the real Wyatt Earp lived 81 years! He was born in 1848 and died in 1929. Hugh O’Brian as the heroic Marshall, in this top-rated ABC Television series ran from 1955 until 1961. The series begins with Earp in Ellsworth, Kansas, where he meets with Ned Buntline who presents Marshal Earp with a pair of oversize Colt .45 revolvers with lengthened 16 inch barrels which Ned calls “Buntline Specials”. By season two we find our hero in Dodge City, and in subsequent series he has travelled to Tombstone. Set in the Kansas towns of Ell
