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Show iifMIMJMWUWMWIW WPWWHWJUM I" "JUL. I Hugh O'Brian 1 .His Own LOiixJJ 1 FMWUSBMWSGQ ft J 4XLUJ QJLllil IJJJJ J Stunt Man 'JL A,ttipng actors, Hugh O'Brian has a. record for taking chances. In the cause of doing his thing for the screen, Hugh has been gored by a buffalo, wrestled a tiger, ridden a killer whale, gone down the Green River rapids in Colorado in a rubber boat, parachuted twice out of a plane, captured a rhino on foot by lassoing it with a rope, ridden a bobsled at 75 miles per hour, fought bulls in Mexico, ridden a cutting horse in New Jersey, and trained a vicious eagle. Yet with all the dangerous risks he has taken, Hugh has been hurt only three times. "Once while I was doing a 'Wyatt Earp' tv segment, I worked my horse too much. He was tired and grew more skittish as the day progressed. When I rode him down a hill to stop in front of the camera for the fifth time, he didn't want to stop and would have crashed right into the crew and extras if I hadn't hauled back so hard on the reins that I hurt myself." Another mishap occurred when he was filming "Ambush Bay" in the Philippines. "The director had Jim Mitchum, a girl, and me walk past a water buffalo in an irrigation ditch while we were on a patrol. I was first in line, then Jim, then the girl. Under ordinary circumstances, when attended by his handler, the water buffalo is tame. But to keep him from running away and out of the shot, the director had him tied to a stake. When I approached, he got scared and broke away. Unfortunately, he charged at me and hit me in the chest. I was knocked into the water, and was unconscious." The only other time Hugh got hurt nobody would even believe he was! He was in Kitzbuhl, Austria, with the former Queen of Iran, Princess Saroya, and three other couples. "I'd never skied before, so I thought be- 36-fo- ot Hugh O'Brian insisted on training an eagle with sharp talons for tv film. f fore I got too deeply involved, d go to a store and rent all the neces--I told her my ankle was broken. She said it wasn't. I told her it was. She still insisted it was probably only a torn ligament. It was very painful, but my boot gave enough support so that I got to the lift and rode down to the hospital. It was broken all right." Hugh insists he is willing to take chances when he's depending upon himself, but not on machinery. "That's why I never did any race driving, motorcycling, flying, or anything else that made me rely on someone else's work. That's why I wanted to train that eagle myself for the part I played in the upcoming film for tv, 'Harpy.' " Hugh doesn't feel the same about having someone else pack his parachute. "That's different," he explained as he recalled his stunt of a couple of years ago. "I had done a script called 'Exit from a Plane in Flight' written by Rod Serling. All about who has become an a movie star but goes back to his old outfit for a publicity stunt. When they ask him to make a parachute jump, he climbs into the plane and gets up there, but loses his nerve and doesn't jump. I decided to see what my honest reaction would be under the same conditions." The jump was so well publicized that hundreds of spectators and photographers were on hand for the event. "So many people were there, I really couldn't do anything BUT jump," Hugh recalled. 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