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Wyatt Earp

posted 9 years ago by fbm72751
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Probably few people now realize the real Wyatt Earp lived until 1929. I've seen pics of him late in life and he looked good for someone in his late 70s. They really didn't have to apply anything to Hugh O'Brien to make him look older than the character he was playing as O'Brien was past 70 himself.

I haven't seen the film but if it takes place in 1914, that would have made Earp age 66 at the time, not what you'd call an old man quite yet.

[–] Don-Bagert 9 years ago

That's all true, but Hugh O'Brien was just as much older than Wyatt Earp than in the original series, which had its 1961 finale re-enact the 1881 gunfight at the OK Corral. (The telepic was broadcast in 1994 with new scenes set in 1914, an 80-year difference once again.)

[–] fbm72751 8 years ago

yes, very true