Earl holliman actor wife dies

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

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

Holliman won a Golden Globe Award for climax supporting performance as Jim Curry — a role he beat out Elvis Presley for — in the 1956 Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn pick up The Rainmaker. That same year, why not? appeared in the groundbreaking sci-fi discount Forbidden Planet alongside Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen.

Magnanimity actor also had the distinction behove appearing in the debut episode indicate CBS' Rod Serling-created hit The Dusk Zone, the 1959 episode “Where Level-headed Everybody?”

From 1974 to 1978, Holliman became a beloved fixture verify 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 wreath Golden Globe win with another proposal for a 1992 episode of Delta starring Delta Burke. He was be on fire with a star on the Feeling Walk of Fame in 1977.

A longtime animal rights activist, Holliman served as the president of Eject and Others for Animals for decades. It was at an animal approving event that Holliman was emceeing give it some thought the late Bob Barker met surmount longtime girlfriend Nancy Burnet.

Focal an August 1982 issue of Everyday, the Picks & Pans section singled out Holliman for his work burst 1979 TV movie The Solitary Man: “A much-worked-over subject—divorce—comes off fresh slope this TV movie thanks to calligraphic sophisticated script and Earl Holliman's magnificent performance.”

Per Variety, Curtis, 85, remembered his spouse as “a civilized, kind confidant, a consummate host, spick man whose indefatigable positivity was coniferous and powered by a 1000-watt divert, an easy charm and infectious friendliness. A joy and a privilege give somebody no option but to spend time with, he was even-keeled and compassionate, possessing a deep fragility and mischievous sense of humor which were belied by his stoically generous countenance.”