Earl Holliman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Earl Holliman (September 11, 1928 - November 25, 2024) was an American actor, animal rights activist and singer known for his many character roles in films, mostly westerns and dramas, in the 1950s and 1960s. He won a Golden Globe Award for the film The Rainmaker (1956) and portrayed Sergeant Bill Crowley on the television police drama Police Woman throughout its 1974–1978 run.

Known For: Acting

Born: Delhi, Louisiana, USA, 1928-09-11

Died: 2024-11-25

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	Pony Soldier	Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)	59
2	1953	Destination Gobi	Frank Swenson (uncredited)	57
3	1953	The Girls of Pleasure Island	Marine (uncredited)	50
4	1953	Scared Stiff	Elevator Operator (uncredited)	64
5	1953	Devil's Canyon	Prisoner	48
6	1953	East of Sumatra	Cupid (as Henry Earl Hopliman	55
7	1954	Tennessee Champ	Happy Jackfield	58
8	1954	Broken Lance	Denny Devereaux	63
9	1954	The Bridges at Toko-Ri	Nestor Gamidge	59
10	1955	The Big Combo	Mingo	70
11	1955	I Died a Thousand Times	Red	61
12	1956	Forbidden Planet	Cookie	73
13	1956	The Burning Hills	Morton Bayliss	60
14	1956	Giant	'Bob' Dace	76
15	1956	The Rainmaker	Jim Curry	67
16	1957	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral	Deputy Sheriff Charles 'Charlie' Bassett	70
17	1957	Trooper Hook	Jeff Bennett	66
18	1957	The Dark Side of the Earth	Capt. Volodney	0
19	1957	Don't Go Near the Water	Adam Garrett	51
20	1958	Hot Spell	Buddy Duval	60
21	1959	The Trap	Tippy Anderson	68
22	1959	Last Train from Gun Hill	Rick Belden, Craig's Son	71
23	1960	Visit to a Small Planet	Conrad	53
24	1961	Armored Command	Mike	45
25	1961	Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed	Webster	0
26	1961	Summer and Smoke	Archie Kramer	67
27	1965	The Sons of Katie Elder	Matt Elder	70
28	1967	A Covenant with Death	Brian Talbot	50
29	1968	The Power	Prof. Talbot Scott aka Scotty	62
30	1968	Anzio	Platoon Sgt. Abe Stimmler	58
31	1969	The Desperate Mission	Shad Clay	45
32	1970	Smoke	Cal Finch	0
33	1970	Tribes	DePayster	60
34	1971	Montserrat	Luhan	0
35	1971	Cannon	Magruder	35
36	1971	The Day They Hanged Kid Curry	Wheat	0
37	1972	The Biscuit Eater	Harve McNeil	62
38	1973	The Boy and the Bronc Buster: Part 1	Cal Winslow	0
39	1973	The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War	Harry Donner	65
40	1974	Cry Panic	Sheriff Ross Cabot	66
41	1974	I Love You...Good-bye	Tom Chandler	0
42	1974	Trapped	David Moore	61
43	1977	Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn	Ray Church	59
44	1979	Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff	Ed Eckles	54
45	1979	The Solitary Man	Dave Keyes	80
46	1980	Where the Ladies Go	Buck	0
47	1981	Sharky's Machine	Donald Hotchkins	61
48	1982	Country Gold	Wade Purcell	60
49	1986	Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs	Kim's Father	30
50	1987	American Harvest	Krab Hogan	0
51	1987	Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge	Jake Flagg	64
52	1996	Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach	Self	70
53	1996	Return to 'Giant'	Self	61
54	1997	Nightman	Frank Dominus	62
55	1999	Bad City Blues	Joe Gags	32
56	2000	The Perfect Tenant	Arthur Michaels	28
57	2006	Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon	Self	70
58	2006	Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet	Self	45
59	2015	Children of 'Giant'	Self	68
60	2021	Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission		90

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Audience Member	68
2	1947	Kraft Television Theatre	Danny Smith	73
3	1948	Studio One	Wayne Pilgrim	47
4	1953	General Electric Theater	David Seymour	60
5	1955	Gunsmoke	Will	66
6	1955	Gunsmoke	Hackett	66
7	1955	Gunsmoke	Boone Shadler	66
8	1955	Matinee Theater		46
9	1957	The Lux Show	Self	60
10	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse		53
11	1959	Bonanza	Sherman Clegg	75
12	1959	The Twilight Zone	Mike Ferris	84
13	1959	Hotel de Paree		50
14	1960	Checkmate	Jack Quentin	41
15	1960	Insight	Fleming	60
16	1961	Dr. Kildare	Capt. Bob Hill	54
17	1961	Bus Stop		0
18	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
19	1962	The Virginian	Wiley	64
20	1962	The Wide Country		60
21	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
22	1963	The Fugitive	Charley Judd	72
23	1963	The Great Adventure	Will Cross	0
24	1965	The F.B.I.	Robert Charles Porter	56
25	1965	The F.B.I.	Drake Faron	56
26	1965	The F.B.I.	Walker Carr	56
27	1965	The F.B.I.	Frank	56
28	1967	Ironside	Gordy Brokaw	69
29	1967	Custer		60
30	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
31	1968	It Takes a Thief	Major Arlin McCoy	70
32	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Father Hugh	65
33	1969	Medical Center		61
34	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
35	1972	The Rookies		69
36	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Chris Conway	70
37	1973	Police Story		71
38	1973	The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts	Self	53
39	1974	Police Woman	Lt. Bill Crowley	63
40	1974	Dinah!	Self	65
41	1977	CHiPs	Earl Holliman (uncredited)	68
42	1982	Hotel		68
43	1983	The Thorn Birds	Luddie Mueller	72
44	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Sheriff J.T. Tanner	75
45	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Wayne Platte	75
46	1988	In the Heat of the Night	Dr. Lambert	75
47	1990	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	Milton (voice)	68
48	1991	P.S. I Luv U	Matthew Durning	58
49	1992	The Larry Sanders Show	Earl Holliman	77
50	1992	Delta	Darden Towe	60
51	1993	Intimate Portrait	Self	45
52	1995	Caroline in the City	Fred Duffy	64
53	1997	Night Man	Frank Dominus	62