Actor, movie star, humanitarian and world-class cut-up, Hugh O'Brian died this morning at age 91. O'Brian, who had several health issues, died with his wife, Virginia, nearby at their Beverly Hills home, his publicist Harlan Boll says. Ironically, the show he was most famous for, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, premiered on ABC 61 years ago, on this date, September 6. The show was billed as “TV’s first adult Western." Asked to define "adult Western," O'Brian once quipped, "The


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