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4 unusual facts about The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp


Damian O'Flynn

He appeared in two secondary roles in sixty episodes of the American Broadcasting Company/Desilu series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, with Hugh O'Brian in the title role of Marshal Wyatt Earp.

Franklin Leslie

The actor James Coburn portrayed Leslie in the 1959 episode "The Noble Outlaws" of the ABC television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, with Hugh O'Brian in the starring role.

Lloyd Corrigan

Three times Corrigan portrayed the western author Ned Buntline in ABC's The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.

Nellie Cashman

The 1959-1960 season of the ABC television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, with Hugh O'Brian starring as Wyatt Earp, featured a fictional character based on Nellie Cashman and played by actress Randy Stuart.


Colt Buntline

The Buntline Special was further popularized by The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp television series.

Don Haggerty

Haggerty appeared as a regular, Marsh Murdock, in twenty-one episodes on ABC western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955-1961), starring Hugh O'Brian in the title role.

Eddy Waller

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Rawhide Geraghty in "The Truth About Rawhide Geraghty" (1959); Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp rides shotgun for the retiring 69-year-old Wells Fargo stagecoach driver Rawhide Geraghty on his last run from Tucumcari, New Mexico Territory, to Amarillo, Texas.

John Milford

From 1959 to 1960, Milford was cast in ten episodes as the historical Ike Clanton on the ABC/Desilu series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp.

Marjorie Stapp

Throughout the 1950s - 1990s, she appeared in both films and television, including Cheyenne, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Dragnet, Elmer Gantry, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, 77 Sunset Strip, The Brady Bunch, Quantum Leap and Columbo.

Robert Harland

He appeared too in 1961 as Corporal Clay Taylor in an episode of NBC's Wagon Train, and as Phil Davies in "The Convict's Revenge" episode of ABC's The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp with Hugh O'Brian.


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