Earl Holliman, whose prolific appearing profession included a Golden Globe-winning function in “The Rainmaker” and TV collection similar to “Police Woman,” has died. He was 96.
Holliman died Monday afternoon at his house in Studio Metropolis, his husband, Craig Curtis, instructed The Instances. No explanation for dying was given.
The actor, square-jawed and with a singular excessive and smooth however compelling voice, made his mark in movie and TV in addition to theater. He appeared in additional than 50 motion pictures and almost 50 tv reveals, starting within the early Fifties.
He could also be greatest identified for his function as Lt. Invoice Crowley, macho counterpart to undercover cop Angie Dickinson on “Police Woman” from 1974 to ’78.
Holliman instructed The Instances in 1993 that his fondest reminiscence of the present was his friendship with Dickinson. He recalled shifting into an unfurnished home and pushing aside the adorning solely to return from a movie challenge to search out she had had his home absolutely furnished whereas he was away.
The actor gained a supporting actor Golden Globe for “The Rainmaker” in 1956, starring reverse Katharine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster.
“It was my first co-starring part,” Holliman stated in a 1975 interview of his function as Jimmy Curry, brother to Hepburn’s Lizzie. Nevertheless it didn’t come straightforward. “I had to fight to get a test for it,” he stated. However, he stated, “Working with Katharine Hepburn was the joy of my life.”
That very same 12 months, the actor appeared within the film “Giant” as Bob Dace, son-in-law of the characters performed by Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor. Different classics he was part of embrace 1957’s “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” and “The Sons of Katie Elder” in 1965.
Earl Holliman sits with fellow actors Angie Dickinson, middle, and Susan Strasberg at Boston’s Park Plaza Lodge in 1983. The three had appeared at a rally protesting abuse of laboratory animals.
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He was additionally, notably, within the first episode of “The Twilight Zone,” which premiered in October 1959. He performed a person with amnesia in “Where Is Everybody?” Different TV collection that he starred in embrace “Hotel de Paree” (1959-60) and “Wide Country” (1962-63).
Holliman talked with The Instances in 1993 about his years doing stay tv, which he stated was an adrenaline rush.
He recalled of 1 present: “At the end of the first act, I was up to my neck in quicksand. As I’m being rescued, I have 90 seconds to have the folks backstage strip me down to a jockstrap, rinse me off, change my clothes, and I have to get on the other side of the stage for the next act, which has me cracking open a coconut. …
“Sometimes, when they had a close-up on your face, your wardrobe was being changed. You’d be talking to someone who had long gone for their own costume change. I think all the actors who did that live television really miss that stuff.”
Holliman was born Sept. 11, 1928, in Delhi, La. He was adopted at every week outdated, in line with the Hollywood Reporter. When his new dad and mom noticed him, “I was sick and they took me right away to the doctor, who apparently said, ‘You don’t have a baby here, you have a funeral expense.’ They paid the midwife $7.50 for me — this was in the backwoods of Louisiana.”
As a teen, he hitchhiked to Los Angeles, utilizing cash that he’d saved from working as a movie show usher and in different small jobs. He quickly ran out of cash and needed to return house, the place he enlisted within the Navy. However after they found he was solely 15, he was discharged.
He later reenlisted and whereas stationed in Norfolk, Va., took half in Navy theater productions. After his service, he went west once more and labored on his craft at UCLA and the Pasadena Playhouse.
Holliman was additionally an animal rights activist and served as president of Actors and Others for Animals for many years. In 1977, he acquired a star on Hollywood’s Stroll of Fame.
He’s survived by husband Curtis and a handful of nieces and nephews.
