Question: When was the actor who portrayed Wyatt Earp born?
Context: Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone is a 1994 independent film starring Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp, featuring new footage mixed with colorized sequences from O'Brian's 1955-1961 television series "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp".  The supporting cast for the new footage includes Bruce Boxleitner, Paul Brinegar, Harry Carey, Jr., Bo Hopkins, and Don Meredith.  The colorized flashback archival footage from the original television series features Douglas Fowley as Doc Holliday and Lloyd Corrigan as Ned Buntline.  The movie was directed by Paul Landres and Frank McDonald. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.  It is generally regarded as the most famous shootout in the history of the American Wild West.  The gunfight was the result of a long-simmering feud, with Cowboys Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury on one side and town Marshal Virgil Earp, Special Policeman Morgan Earp, Special Policeman Wyatt Earp, and temporary policeman Doc Holliday on the other side.  All three Earp brothers had been the target of repeated death threats made by the Cowboys, who objected to the Earps' interference in their illegal activities.  Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers were killed.  Ike Clanton claimed that he was unarmed and ran from the fight, along with Billy Claiborne.  Virgil, Morgan, and Doc Holliday were wounded, but Wyatt Earp was unharmed.  The shootout has come to represent a period of the American Old West when the frontier was virtually an open range for outlaws, largely unopposed by law enforcement officers who were spread thin over vast territories. Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (1931) was a best-selling but largely fictional biography of Wyatt Earp written by Stuart N. Lake and published by Houghton Mifflin Company.  It was the first biography of Earp, supposedly written with his contributions.  It established the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the public consciousness and conveyed a mythic story about Wyatt Earp as a fearless lawman in the American Old West.  Earp and his wife Josephine Earp tried to control the account, threatening legal action to persuade Lake to exclude Earp's second wife from the book.  When the book was published, neither woman was mentioned. Glenn G. Boyer (January 5, 1924 - February 14, 2013) was a controversial author who published three books and a number of articles about Wyatt Earp and related figures in the American Old West.  He was the first person to reveal the existence of Wyatt Earp's second wife, Mattie Blaylock.  His publications were for many years regarded as the authoritative source on Wyatt Earp's life.  However, when other experts began to seek evidence supporting Boyer's work, he would or could not prove the existence of documents that he said he owned and had cited as essential sources.  In one case, an individual he cited as a key source was exposed as a complete fabrication.  His reputation and the authenticity of his work was seriously damaged.  Although he retained many supporters, his work became surrounded by controversy. Raymond C. Boyle, known as Ray Boyle or as the screen name Dirk London (born June 28, 1925), is an American actor known principally for his sporadic role as Morgan Earp, the brother of Wyatt Earp in fifteen episodes of the ABC/Desilu Productions western television series, "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp," starring Hugh O'Brian in the title role.  Boyle's episodes began with "The Assassins" in 1956 and ended with "The Outlaws Cry Murder" in 1961. Jimmy Noel (May 15, 1903–January 31, 1985) was a Massachusetts-born actor and stuntman who appeared in hundreds of largely uncredited roles in film and television between 1949 and 1975.  He appeared 202 times on CBS's western series, "Gunsmoke", starring James Arness, and in 144 episodes of the ABC/Desilu production, "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp", with Hugh O'Brian in the title role of deputy Marshal Wyatt Earp.  Buddy Roosevelt made similar appearances in sixty-five "Wyatt Earp" episodes. Sunset is a 1988 American mystery action film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Bruce Willis as legendary Western actor Tom Mix, who teams up with legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, portrayed for the second time in a theatrical film by James Garner.  Based on an unpublished novel by Rod Amateau, the plot has Mix and Earp team up to solve a murder in Hollywood in 1929. Wyatt Earp's Revenge is a 2012 American Western film about the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp.  It is a fictionalized account of an actual Old West event, the slaying of beautiful singer Dora Hand in Dodge City, Kansas, when Earp was a deputy there.  In one of its many instances of dramatic license, the movie depicts Hand as Earp's sweetheart.  The film's framing device is a reporter's interview with an aging Earp, who reminisces about the tragedy.  (Val Kilmer plays the older Earp, while Shawn Roberts plays the younger one.)  The film was released on March 6, 2012, in the United States.  The film was produced by Jeff Schenck and Barry Barnholtz and directed by Michael Feifer.  The screenplay was written by Darren Benjamin Shepherd. James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor, producer, and voice artist.  He starred in several television series over more than five decades, including such popular roles as Bret Maverick in the 1950s western comedy series "Maverick" and Jim Rockford in "The Rockford Files", and played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including "The Great Escape" (1963) with Steve McQueen, Paddy Chayefsky's "The Americanization of Emily" (1964), "Grand Prix" (1966), Blake Edwards' "Victor/Victoria" (1982), "Murphy's Romance" (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, "Space Cowboys" (2000) with Clint Eastwood, and "The Notebook" (2004). The 1976 book I Married Wyatt Earp was believed to be a memoir of his widow Josephine Earp, but was many years later described as a fraud, creative exercise, and a hoax.  Originally published by the respected University of Arizona Press, it is the second best-selling book about western Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp ever sold.  It was regarded for many years as a factual account that shed considerable light on the life of Wyatt Earp and his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.  It was cited in scholarly works, assigned as classroom work, and used as a source by filmmakers.  Amateur Earp historian Glenn Boyer said that the retouched image on the cover of a scantily-clad woman was of Josephine in her 20s, and based on his statements, copies of the image were later sold at auction for up to $2,875.
Answer: April 7, 1928