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At the age of 96, renowned actor Earl Holliman passed away. He was most remembered for his parts in “Police Woman” and “Where Is Everybody,” the premiere episode of Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Holliman’s husband Craig Curtis said the well-known actor passed away on Monday at his Studio City,
California, home while receiving hospice care. Holliman was a Golden Globe-winning performer with great praise.
He defeated Elvis Presley to play Katharine Hepburn’s younger brother in “The Rainmaker” in 1956, winning best supporting actor.
His Hollywood career lasted a long time. As of early Wednesday, the public has not been informed of his official cause of death.
Holliman’s most well-known role was that of Angie Dickinson’s employer on the popular 1970s NBC police drama “Police Woman.”
Delhi, Louisiana, is the birthplace of this gifted performer. He was put in an orphanage when his biological father passed away six months before his birth,
And at the age of one week, he was adopted. He was adopted into a loving family and had a happy childhood in spite of his traumatic origins.
“My parents were amazing and showered me with love.” They urged me to pursue my potential. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he claimed that I was their only kid.
When Holliman was barely 14 years old, he decided to follow his ambition of being an actor and hitched a ride from Texas to the outskirts of Hollywood.
After serving a brief time in the U.S. Navy, he devoted himself to studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. According to The Hollywood Reporter,
Holliman made his professional debut in 1953 with a single line of dialogue as an elevator operator in the Dean Martin-Jerry.
Lewis comedy “Scared Stiff.” He signed on for little parts in four additional movies that year as his acting career took off.
He later featured in an episode of CBS’s Playhouse 90 titled “The Dark Side of the Earth” and costarred with William Holden and Grace Kelly in “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”
In 1954. His acting career was cemented when he was cast in “The Twilight Zone,” thanks to that crucial part.
In addition to starring with Elizabeth Taylor in “Giant,” Holliman also starred in “The Sons of Katie Elder,” “Forbidden Planet,” and “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” in 1957.
Holliman had a part in the historic 1983 ABC miniseries “The Thorn Birds” and was nominated for another Globe in 1993 for his role as a bar owner on the short-lived ABC series
“Delta,” which starred Delta Burke. Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, Dr. Kildare, Cannon, Bonanza, Slattery’s People,
The Six Million Dollar Man, Empty Nest, Murder, She Wrote, and Caroline in the City were just a few of his many other television roles.
I Died a Thousand Times, Hot Spell, Last Train From Gun Hill, Summer and Smoke, A Covenant With Death, Anzio,
Bad City Blues, and The Perfect Tenant are just a few of the movies he has acted in. (LINK: James Earl Jones, a Legendary Actor, Dies at Age 93)
As fans and other actors honor the star and his legacy on social media, Holliman is being recalled with fondness.