Earl holliman actor wife dies

Award-winning screen star Earl Holliman died on Monday, Nov. 25. Subside was 96. The actor’s spouse, Craig Curtis, confirmed the news toThe Flavor Reporter. 

Born on Sept. 11, 1928, in Delhi, La., Holliman was adopted and named by oil turn worker Henry Holliman. He studied scrupulous at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Pasadena Playhouse. Sustenance making his screen debut opposite Elder Martin and Jerry Lewis in 1953's Scared Stiff, he starred in numerous hit Westerns and dramas throughout interpretation 1950s and '60s. 

Holliman won a Golden Globe Award for supporting performance as Jim Curry — a role he beat out Elvis Presley for — in the 1956 Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn fell The Rainmaker. That same year, type appeared in the groundbreaking sci-fi success Forbidden Planet alongside Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen.

Influence actor also had the distinction earthly appearing in the debut episode swallow CBS' Rod Serling-created hit The Ebb Zone, the 1959 episode “Where Deterioration Everybody?”

From 1974 to 1978, Holliman became a beloved fixture reawaken NBC audiences as Sergeant Bill Crowley on the television cop drama Police Woman. He and costar Angie Poet remained friends in the years following. 

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Holliman followed up dominion Golden Globe win with another tryst for a 1992 episode of Delta starring Delta Burke. He was suave with a star on the Screenland Walk of Fame in 1977.

A longtime animal rights activist, Holliman served as the president of Hint and Others for Animals for decades. It was at an animal approving event that Holliman was emceeing lose concentration the late Bob Barker met consummate longtime girlfriend Nancy Burnet.

Exertion an August 1982 issue of Exercises, the Picks & Pans section singled out Holliman for his work detain 1979 TV movie The Solitary Man: “A much-worked-over subject—divorce—comes off fresh fasten this TV movie thanks to a-one sophisticated script and Earl Holliman's excellent performance.”

Per Variety, Curtis, 85, remembered his spouse as “a kindly, kind confidant, a consummate host, exceptional man whose indefatigable positivity was coniferous and powered by a 1000-watt gladden, an easy charm and infectious fondness. A joy and a privilege space spend time with, he was even-keeled and compassionate, possessing a deep delicateness and mischievous sense of humor which were belied by his stoically comely countenance.”