![]() ![]() ![]() By the time he graduated from high school, he had lettered in football, basketball, wrestling and track. Moving from place to place growing up, he managed to show off his athletic prowess quite early. ![]() O'Brian first attended school at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, then Kemper Military School in Booneville, Missouri. His paternal grandparents were German immigrants, while his mother was of half German Jewish and half English/Scottish descent. O'Brian was born Hugh Charles Krampe on April 19, 1925, in Rochester, New York, to Ohio-born parents Edith Lillian (Marks) and Hugh John Krampe, a United States Marine Corps officer. Hugh O'Brian had the term "beefcake" written about him during his nascent film years in the early 1950s, but he chose to avoid the obvious typecast as he set up his career. ![]()
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