Erin O'Brien is an American

United States

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 actress active during the mid-twentieth century and best known as the leading lady of arguably the first made-for-TV movie, Girl on the Run

Girl on the Run

For the Victoria Silvstedt album, see Girl on the Run .Girl on the Run is a 1958 private detective film starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Erin O'Brien and Edd Byrnes. The film is in truth, although not legal fact, based on characters and situations created by writer Roy Huggins in a series of 1940s...

, which also served as the pilot for the television series 77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes....

. One of 14 siblings, she has six sisters and seven brothers according to her "Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen" bio.

O'Brien was also the female lead on such television shows as Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson (TV series)

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black and white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961...

, Sugarfoot

Sugarfoot

Sugarfoot is the title of a TV western that aired from 1957 to 1961. The series featured Will Hutchins as fledgling frontier lawyer Tom Brewster and Jack Elam as sidekick Toothy Thompson...

, Cheyenne

Cheyenne (TV series)

Cheyenne is a western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season...

, Maverick

Maverick (TV series)

Maverick is a western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, a cagey, articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother...

, Colt .45

Colt .45 (TV series)

Colt .45 is an American Western television series shown on ABC between 1957 and 1960. The half-hour show derives from the 1950 Warner Brothers film of the same name starring Randolph Scott and formed part of the William T...

, etc. Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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  initially held her in such high regard that she was billed alongside James Garner

James Garner

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 at the beginning of her first Maverick episode in 1957, a gesture shared by very few actors during the 5-year run of the series (the episode is "Stage West", based upon a Louis Lamour story, and is permanently available for viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City

New York City

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 and Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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).

According to the Internet Movie Database

Internet Movie Database

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, O'Brien was a featured solo singer on The Steve Allen Show

Steve Allen (comedian)

Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen was an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his television career. He first gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent...

from 1956 to 1958. Her films include John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones (film)

John Paul Jones is a 1959 biographical epic film about John Paul Jones. The film was made by Samuel Bronston Productions and released by Warner Bros. It was directed by John Farrow and produced by Samuel Bronston from a screenplay by John Farrow, Ben Hecht, Jesse Lasky Jr. from the story Nor'wester...

(1959) and In Like Flint

In Like Flint

In Like Flint is a 1967 film directed by Gordon Douglas, the sequel to the parody spy film Our Man Flint . It posits an international feminist conspiracy to depose the ruling American patriarchy with a feminist matriarchy. To achieve and establish it, they kidnap and replace the U.S. President,...

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O'Brien has four children, two by her current husband, Kanan Awni, and two by her former husband, Jimmy Fitzgerald.