Earl Holliman, whose prolific performing profession included a Golden Globe-winning function in “The Rainmaker” and TV collection similar to “Police Woman,” has died. He was 96 years outdated.
Holliman died Monday afternoon at his dwelling in Studio City, his husband, Craig Curtis, informed the Times. No reason behind demise was given.
The actor, with a sq. jaw and a novel voice, excessive and gentle however compelling, has made his mark in movie, TV and theater. He has appeared in additional than 50 movies and practically 50 tv reveals, relationship again to the early Nineteen Fifties.
He could also be greatest identified for his function as Lieutenant Bill Crowley, the macho counterpart to undercover cop Angie Dickinson on “Police Woman” from 1974 to ’78.
Holliman informed the Times in 1993 that his fondest reminiscence of the present was his friendship with Dickinson. He remembered transferring into an unfurnished home and pushing aside adorning solely to return from a movie challenge and discover that she had had her home totally furnished whereas he was away.
The actor received a Golden Globe as supporting actor for “The Rainmaker” in 1956, starring alongside Katharine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster.
“It was my first co-star half,” Holliman stated in a 1975 interview as Jimmy Curry, brother of Hepburn’s Lizzie. But it wasn’t simple. “I needed to combat to get a take a look at,” he stated. But, he stated, “Working with Katharine Hepburn was the enjoyment of my life.”
In the identical yr, the actor appeared within the movie “Giant” within the function of Bob Dace, son-in-law of the characters performed by Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor. Other classics he was part of embody 1957’s “Gunfight on the OK Corral” and 1965’s “The Sons of Katie Elder.”
Earl Holliman sits with fellow actors Angie Dickinson, middle, and Susan Strasberg on the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston in 1983. The three had appeared at a rally protesting the abuse of laboratory animals.
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He was additionally, most notably, within the first episode of “The Twilight Zone,” which premiered in October 1959. He performed an amnesiac man in “Where’s Everyone?” Other TV collection wherein he starred embody “Hotel de Paree” (1959-60) and “Wide Country” (1962-63).
Holliman spoke to the Times in 1993 about his years on stay tv, which he stated have been an adrenaline rush.
He recalled of 1 present: “By the top of the primary act, I used to be as much as my neck in quicksand. While they save me, I’ve 90 seconds to get stripped backstage to a jockstrap, rinse off, change garments, and must go to the opposite aspect of the stage for the subsequent act, which is me cracking open a coconut. …
“Sometimes, once they had a close-up of your face, your wardrobe can be modified. You can be speaking to somebody who has lengthy needed to vary their costume. I feel all of the actors who did that stay TV actually miss that stuff.
Holliman was born on September 11, 1928 in Delhi, Louisiana. He was adopted on the age of 1 week, in response to the Hollywood reporter. When his new dad and mom noticed him, “I used to be sick and so they took me straight to the physician, who apparently stated, ‘You haven’t got a child right here, you could have a funeral expense.’ They paid the midwife $7.50 for me – this was in distant components of Louisiana.”
As a young person, he hitchhiked to Los Angeles, utilizing cash he had saved working as an usher at a movie show and doing different odd jobs. He quickly ran out of cash and needed to return dwelling, the place he joined the Navy. But once they found he was solely 15, he was discharged.
He later reenlisted and whereas stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, took half in Navy theater productions. After the service, he went west once more and labored at UCLA and the Pasadena Playhouse.
Holliman was additionally an animal rights activist and served for many years as president of Actors and Others for Animals. In 1977, he acquired a mean of star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
She leaves behind her husband Curtis and a handful of nieces and nephews.
