Hugh O'Brian Filmography

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Harry Carey, Jr., Bruce Boxleitner

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV Western drama, Wyatt Earp (Hugh O'Brian) revisits the town of Tombstone, AZ as he recalls his adventures with gunfighters, cowboys, and fellow lawmen a quarter of a century after the shootout at the O.K. Corral made him a living legend. This unusual feature was built around Read More

Tombstone

Actors: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Robert John Burke, Dana Delany

Synopsis: A high-energy action adventure based on legend rather than historical fact finds Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) desiring to retire from law enforcement. With brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton), he arrives in Tombstone, Arizona intending to build his fortune. He discovers that Read More

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

Actors: Gene Barry, James Drury, Doug McClure, Rick Rossovich, Kenny Rogers, Reba McEntire

Synopsis: The fourth of Kenny Rogers' Gambler TV movies, 1991's The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw is regarded by many Western diehards as the best. This time, gambler Brady Hawkes is en route to a high-stakes poker game in San Francisco. His travelling companions are a trouble-prone frontier Romeo (Rick Rossovich Read More

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache

Actors: James Arness, Richard Kiley, Michael Learned

Synopsis: Matt Dillon is the only one available from the series in this movie. This time he discovers that he has a daughter he never even knew that he had. Unfortunately, however, she has been kidnapped by some renegade Apaches. Needless to say, the now retired Marshall Dillon comes out of retirement to go Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Body to Die For

Synopsis: The ladies of Cabot Cove are enchanted by a newcomer to the community, handsome gym instructor Wayne Bennett (Jason Beghe). Especially fascinated by Bennett is Eve Simpson (Julie Adams), who naturally is an old friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). When Bennett's onetime partner, con Read More

Twins

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb, Bonnie Bartlett

Synopsis: The central "gimmick" of the comedy-adventure Twins is established early on. Unbeknownst to one another, king-sized Arnold Schwarzenegger and gnomeish Danny De Vito are twin brothers. Even better: Schwarzenegger is a mild-mannered, bookish type, while De Vito is a vitriolic troublemaker. The film Read More

Doin' Time on Planet Earth

Actors: Nicholas Strouse, Hugh Gillin, Gloria Hendry, Hugh O'Brian, Martha Scott

Synopsis: Ryan Richmond (Nicholas Strouse) is a lonely teen from Sunnydale, Arizona who believes he is a space alien in this offbeat comedy. Charles (Adam West) and his wife Edna (Candice Azzara) are the new neighbors who reinforce Ryan's vivid imagination. Hugh O'Brien plays a former U.S. vice-president Read More

David and Goliath

The Seekers

Synopsis: The Seekers was the third and last TV movie based on John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the others were The Bastard and The Rebels). Heading the huge all-star cast is Randolph Mantooth as Abraham Kent, son of elderly Revolutionary War vet Andrew Kent (played by Martin Milner, replacing the first Read More

Cruise into Terror

Synopsis: This delightfully bad made-for-TV movie throws together an assortment of television stalwarts and movie has-beens for what is essentially a horror version of The Love Boat. The plot involves a vacation cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, during which some of the passengers find an ancient Egyptian Read More

The Game of Death

Actors: Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Hugh O'Brian, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: Star Bruce Lee died before this film was completed, thus the producers were forced to pad out the running time with outtakes and alternate shots. They also lifted chunks of footage from Enter the Dragon and Return of the Dragon. The finished product finally hit the screens in 1978, five years Read More

Fantasy Island

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: The long-running Aaron Spelling TV series Fantasy Island was launched with a two-hour pilot film, which originally aired January 14, 1977. Ricardo Montalban stars as the enigmatic, sartorially splendiferous Mr. Roarke, who welcomes those willing to pony up the $50,000 to spend a weekend on Read More

Benny and Barney: Las Vegas Undercover

Actors: Marty Allen, George Gobel, Bobby Troup

Synopsis: Terry Kiser is Benny and Tim Thomerson is Barney, two undercover cops operating in Vegas. So as not to attract attention to their sleuthing, Benny and Barney pose as nightclub entertainers. The case of the moment is the rescue of a kidnapped singer, which B and B pull off successfully within the Read More

Murder at the World Series

Synopsis: A kidnapping plot includes 5 women along with the last 2 games of the baseball World Series. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Charlie's Angels: Lady Killer

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David F. Doyle, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Someone has been killing the centerfold models of Feline magazine, the girlie publication run by Hefner-like Tony Mann (Hugh O'Brian). In order to flush out the killer, who is apparently determined to sabotage the magazine's operation, the Angels go undercover -- with Jill (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) Read More

The Shootist

Actors: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Bill McKinney, James Stewart

Synopsis: About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne), "You have a cancer." Knowing that his death will be painful and lingering, Books is determined to be shot in the line of "duty." In his remaining two months, Books Read More

Killer Force

Actors: Telly Savalas, Peter Fonda, Hugh O'Brian, Christopher Lee, O.J. Simpson

Synopsis: Peter Fonda stars as a diamond mine security officer who fakes a robbery in order to gain the respect of the group of mercenaries he needs to help him pull off the biggest heist in history. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder on Flight 502

Synopsis: While bound for London from New York, the occupants of a 747 are terrorized by a mad bomber. The jet's pilot (Robert Stack) and several brave passengers must thwart the plot. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Probe

Synopsis: This pilot for the TV adventure series Search stars Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lockwood, a secret agent implanted with a electronic transmitter which allows everything he sees and hears to be beamed back to police headquarters. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Harpy

Synopsis: The harpy of the title is Elizabeth Ashley, the greedy, demanding ex-wife of architect Hugh O'Brian. As a means of escaping his former spouse's tirades, O'Brian quietly trains his pet eagle to be a hunter. A confrontation between eagle and "ex" is inevitable, but masterfully handled. Tom Nardini Read More

Wild Women

Synopsis: While tension runs high between Americans and Mexicans in Texas, a group of Army engineers travel in disguise, with female prisoners posing as their wives, while they attempt to map important routes for the war effort. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Strategy of Terror

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Barbara Rush, Neil Hamilton, Frederick O'Neal, Will Corry

Synopsis: Strategy of Terror began life as "In Darkness Waiting," a two-part 1964 installment of TV's Kraft Suspense Theatre. Newswoman Barbara Rush discovers that a right-wing extremist plans to kill four UN employees. No one believes her at first, but when she herself is attacked, a police officer Hugh O'Brian Read More

Africa - Texas Style!

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, John Mills, Tom Nardini, Adrienne Corri, Ronald Howard

Synopsis: In this Ivan Tors action adventure (that later served as the basis for the television series Cowboy in Africa, John Mills appears as Wing Commander Howard Hayes, now having hung up his wings for ranching in Kenya. Hayes hatches a solution to alleviate the hunger of Masai villagers with a plan to Read More

Ambush Bay

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Mickey Rooney, James Mitchum, Peter Masterson, Harry Lauter

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, a unit of Marines have 96 hours to make it through the dense Philippine jungle and locate a Japanese-American girl who has information needed to plan the invasion of the Japanese-occupied island. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Assassination in Rome

Actors: Cyd Charisse, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Danger and romance are in plentiful supply in one of Europe's most beautiful cities in this sophisticated thriller. Shelley North (Cyd Charisse) is an American tourist who has come to Rome on a vacation with her husband. When he disappears without warning, Shelley visits the American embassy in Read More

In Harm's Way

Actors: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Dana Andrews, Paula Prentiss

Synopsis: In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell Read More

Ten Little Indians

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: The third of many film and TV adaptations of the popular Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians is the title of the American edition, the hit play, and most of the movies), this 1965 version moves the action from a remote island to an isolated ski resort and otherwise Read More

Love Has Many Faces

Actors: Lana Turner, Cliff Robertson, Hugh O'Brian, Ruth Roman, Stefanie Powers

Synopsis: Repeated infidelities and an unexplained death set the stage for this glossy soap opera. Kit Jordan (Lana Turner) is a wealthy woman slipping into middle age who likes attractive men and isn't averse to the notion of paying for their company. Her husband Pete (Cliff Robertson) is a one-time gigolo Read More

Come Fly With Me

Actors: Dolores Hart, Hugh O'Brian, Karl Heinz Böhm, Pamela Tiffin, Karl Malden

Synopsis: The lives and loves of a trio of airline hostesses is the whole story in this piece of fluff from MGM. Each of these perky women have cute and cuddly romances from an assortment of wealthy men as they offer coffee or tea on a flight from New York to Paris. Dolores Hart is searching for a rich Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Two-Faced Turnabout

Synopsis: This is the third of four consecutive episodes in which Perry Mason appears only briefly, while a "guest" lawyer handles the case at hand (Raymond Burr was at the time recovering from minor surgery). Subbing for Perry on this occasion is Bruce Jason (Hugh O'Brian), a lawyer who normally Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Ride the Nightmare

Synopsis: This episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour was adapted by frequent Twilight Zone contributor Richard Matheson from his own novel. In his youth, Christopher Martin (Hugh O'Brian) drove the getaway car for a robbery committed by three of his friends. But Christopher panicked, driving off and leaving Read More

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp: Season 06

Actors: Hugh O'Brian

Alias Jesse James

Actors: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Jay Silverheels, Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Gloria Talbott

Synopsis: Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he can (supposedly) do little harm. Hope manages to sell a $100,000 life insurance policy--to outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey), one of the worst "risks" in history! In his Read More

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp: Season 05

Actors: Hugh O'Brian

The Fiend Who Walked the West

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Robert Evans, Dolores Michaels, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally

Synopsis: This off-beat western is a freely-adapted remake of the violent film noir Kiss of Death. The story centers on a naive thief, Dan Hardy, who is captured after a bank robbery and placed in a jail cell alongside the maniacal, vicious Felix Griffin. O'Brian gets himself into deep trouble when he tells Read More

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp: Season 04

Actors: Hugh O'Brian

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp: Season 03

Actors: Hugh O'Brian

The Brass Legend

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Nancy Gates, Raymond Burr, Reba Tassell

Synopsis: During the summer lay-off of the TV series Wyatt Earp, Hugh O'Brian found time to star in the superior sagebrusher The Brass Legend. O'Brien plays a sheriff who takes full credit for the arrest of dangerous outlaw Raymond Burr. In fact, young Donald McDonald, the brother of O'Brien's fiancee Nancy Gates Read More

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp: Season 02

Actors: Hugh O'Brian

The Twinkle in God's Eye

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Coleen Gray, Hugh O'Brian, Joey Forman

Synopsis: Twinkle in God's Eye, Mickey Rooney's second personal production for Republic Pictures, is at the very least an improvement upon the first (The Atomic Kid). More subdued than usual, Rooney stars as Rev. Macklin, a greenhorn clergyman who tries to spread the Good Word to a rowdy western town. Read More

White Feather

Actors: Robert Wagner, John Lund, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Eduard Franz

Synopsis: Unusual for its time, this 1955 film is a sympathetic treatment of the U.S. Army's resettlement of Native Americans in the Old West. The Cheyenne tribe agrees to leave its hunting grounds in Wyoming so that white settlers looking for gold can move in. Colonel Lindsay (John Lund) is in charge of Read More

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp: Season 01

Actors: Hugh O'Brian

Broken Lance

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: In this Western with curiously Shakespearean undertones, Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) is a ranch owner who has tried to raise his sons to carry on the fierce, hard-working spirit that helped make him a success. However, as a consequence, he never learned to show them affection and treats his Read More

There's No Business Like Show Business

Actors: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray

Synopsis: Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its thinnish plot held together by an itinerary of Irving Berlin tunes. The story chronicles some twenty years in the lives of a showbiz family, headed by Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman Read More

Saskatchewan

Actors: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, Robert Douglas, J. Carrol Naish, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Saskatchewan is a "northern" starring Alan Ladd as tight-lipped Canadian Mountie Sgt. Thomas O'Rourke. He rescues Grace Markey (Shelley Winters), sole survivor of a Sioux uprising, and the two of them set out across the treacherous Saskatchewan terrain to safety. To keep himself and his companion Read More

Drums Across the River

Actors: Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan, Lyle Bettger, Lisa Gaye, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Audie Murphy is at his taciturn best in the Universal western Drums Along the River. Murphy is cast as Gary Brannon, a peaceful homesteader living a quiet existence with his father Sam (Walter Brennan). No-account Frank Walker (Lyle Bettger), hoping to open up the Ute Indian territory for Read More

Fireman Save My Child

Actors: Buddy Hackett, Hugh O'Brian, Tom Brown

Synopsis: Fireman Save My Child started out as an Abbott and Costello picture, but then Lou Costello became ill with rheumatic fever. Or Costello turned down the script. Or the team decided to film Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde instead. Whatever the reason, when the film was finally Read More

The Man from the Alamo

Actors: Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Hugh O'Brian, Victor Jory

Synopsis: The Man From the Alamo manages to pack a few nuances and surprises in its traditional western plotline. During the siege at the Alamo, John Stroud (Glenn Ford) is chosen by lot to leave the fort and warn the families of the mission's defenders of the impending arrival of General Santa Ana. But Read More

Back to God's Country

Actors: Rock Hudson, Marcia Henderson, Steve Cochran, Hugh O'Brian, Chubby Johnson

Synopsis: The oft-filmed James Oliver Curwood yarn Back to God's Country is given the Technicolor treatment in this 1953 cinemadaptation. Set in the Great White North, the story concerns a romantic triangle consisting of sea captain Peter Keith (Rock Hudson), his wife Dolores (Marcia Henderson), and his Read More

Seminole

Actors: Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn, Richard Carlson, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Rock Hudson stars in Seminole as 19th-century army officer Lance Caldwell. Born and raised in Florida, Caldwell is assigned to Fort King in the Everglades. Immediately clashing with his commanding officer Major Dade (Richard Carlson), Caldwell opposes Dade's plans to wipe out the Seminole Indians. Read More

The Stand at Apache River

Actors: Stephen McNally, Hugh O'Brian, Julie Adams, Hugh Marlowe, Jaclynne Greene

Synopsis: In this western, eight stagecoach passengers are stranded while Apache warriors lay siege upon a trading post. Among the travelers is a sheriff and his prisoner. It is the brave lawman who retains order in the post and eventually defeats the marauders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Son of Ali Baba

Actors: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Susan Cabot, William Reynolds

Synopsis: In this swashbuckling adventure-satire, Kashma Baba's famous father Ali, sends the reluctant youth to military school to prepare him for the troubles ahead. Meanwhile, an evil Caliph kidnaps and enslaves an Arabian princess as part of his plan to steal Ali Baba's fabulous treasure. He then sends Read More

The Lawless Breed

Actors: Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle, John McIntire, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: The Lawless Breed is based on the exploits of Texas bad man John Wesley Hardin, played here quite convincingly by Rock Hudson. The film takes the Cecil B. DeMille approach of condemning evil by showing as much evil as the censor will allow. After nearly an hour of unrepentant perfidy, Hardin Read More

Meet Me at the Fair

Actors: Dan Dailey, Diana Lynn, Chet Allen, Scatman Crothers, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Despite its ebullient title and the presence of lightweight dancing star Dan Dailey, Meet Me at the Fair has a lot more meat on its bones than most musicals of the early 1950s. Dailey plays an early-1900s medicine show huckster who finds himself the reluctant guardian of orphanage escapee Chet Allen Read More

The Battle at Apache Pass

Actors: John Lund, Jeff Chandler, Beverly Tyler, Bruce Cowling, Susan Cabot

Synopsis: Two of the cast members from the 1950 western Broken Arrow, Jeff Chandler and Jay Silverheels, recreate their earlier roles in 1952's Battle at Apache Pass. Chandler plays temperate Indian leader Cochise, while Silverheels is the more explosive Geronimo. The film takes place several years before Read More

Red Ball Express

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake, Judith Braun, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Red Ball Express deals with the little-known activities of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps during WW II. It so happened that many of the Corps' most courageous drivers were black men, who otherwise would have been denied an opportunity for combat duty. Sidney Poitier plays Corporal Andrew Read More

The Raiders

Actors: Richard Conte, Viveca Lindfors, Barbara Britton, Hugh O'Brian, Richard Martin

Synopsis: It's always a pleasure to see ace western director Leslie Selander in action, and Riders of Vengeance is no exception. Originally released as The Raiders, this Universal programmer stars Richard Conte as a miner who leads an expedition of his compatriots to the California Gold Rush. Crooked Morris Ankrum Read More

Sally and Saint Anne

Actors: Ann Blyth, Edmund Gwenn, John McIntire, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Young Sally Moyne (Ann Blyth) seldom makes a move in life without first consulting Saint Anne, patron saint of all young girls. Sally's faith in the efficacy of St. Anne has a salutary affect on all those in her orbit. It can also be said that Sally's tight relationship with her patron saint is of Read More

The Cimarron Kid

Actors: Audie Murphy, Yvette Dugay, Beverly Tyler, John Hudson, James Best

Synopsis: Though director Budd Boetticher is best known to western fans for his collaborative efforts with star Randolph Scott, Boetticher also turned out several worthwhile actioners with other cowboy stars. The Cimarron Kid stars Audie Murphy in the title role. After being falsely accused of a payroll Read More

Cave of Outlaws

Actors: MacDonald Carey, Alexis Smith, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: MacDonald Carey and Alexis Smith star in the heavily plotted western Cave of Outlaws. Carey plays Pete Carver, who has spent 10 years in jail for participating in a train holdup. Upon his release, Pete heads to the huge cave where his cohorts had hidden their loot. Not surprisingly, he is trailed Read More

Fighting Coast Guard

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Richard Jaeckel, William Murphy

Synopsis: The Coast Guard is highlighted in this propaganda drama set during WW II. In addition to the usual blend of romance and military adventure, the film also features an interesting glimpse in to the training of the young Guards as they prepare for war. The story centers around a crew of shipyard Read More

Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas

Actors: Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen, Hugh O'Brian, James Bell, Gaylord "Steve" Pendleton

Synopsis: Ever in pursuit of novelty, Republic Pictures assembled a series of westerns in the early 1950s starring youngsters Michael Chapin and Eileen Janssen. In Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas, the kids are left virtually alone when their elders ride off to war. Bad guy Tristram Coffin tries to take advantage Read More