Earl Holliman, Star on ‘Cops Lady,’ Passes Away at 96 

Earl Holliman, the star best understood for playing Angie Dickinson’s manager on the 1970s NBC police drama Cops Lady, has actually passed away. He was 96.

Holliman passed away Monday in hospice care at his home in Studio City, his partner, Craig Curtis, informed The Hollywood Press Reporter

Holliman won a finest supporting star Golden World for depicting Katharine Hepburn’s girl-crazy kid sibling in The Rainmaker (1956)– he vanquished Elvis Presley for the function– and after that appeared in another Burt Lancaster movie, as Wyatt Earp’s assistant in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957 ).

In the George Stevens impressive Giant (1956 ), the Louisiana native played the son-in-law of Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson’s characters, was the cook in Forbidden World (1956) and looked like the sibling of John Wayne, Dean Martin and Michael Anderson Jr. in Henry Hathaway’s The Sons of Katie Senior Citizen (1965 ).

Holliman likewise represented a guy with amnesia in a deserted town on the extremely first episode of Rod Serling’s The Golden Zone, “Where Is Everyone?” which premiered on Oct. 2, 1959.

Likewise throughout the 1959-60 television season, Holliman starred as Sundance, a Colorado gunslinger-turned-marshal with a partner– a canine called Ineffective– on the brief Hotel de Paree

3 years later on, Holliman toplined another television Western, NBC’s Wide Nation; he played a rodeo star on that Ralph Edwards-produced series, however that lasted just a season also.

Holliman changed Bert Convy after the pilot to star as the macho Lt. Expense Crowley on Cops Lady, which aired from 1974-78. He shared an enjoyable chemistry with Dickinson, who starred as LAPD undercover police Sgt. Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson, on the series’ 4 seasons.

” She ‘d enter problem and I ‘d run in and conserve her,” Holliman, discussing a common Cops Lady story, stated in a 2003 interview. “I would make some wise remark and she would come back at me in some hot type of method, and a great deal of that was ad-libbed. We had an implied type of approval to do that.”

Henry Earl Holliman was born upon Sept. 11, 1928, in Delhi, Louisiana. His natural daddy passed away 6 months before he was born, and Holliman was put in an orphanage before being embraced when he was a week old.

” When [his adoptive parents] pertained to see me, I was ill and they took me immediately to the medical professional, who obviously stated, ‘You do not have a child here, you have a funeral expenditure,'” he stated. “They paid the midwife $7.50 for me– this remained in the backwoods of Louisiana.

” I had terrific moms and dads who offered me all the love worldwide. They motivated me to be whatever I can be. I was their only kid.”

Holliman dreamed about ending up being a star, and when he was 14, quickly after his daddy passed away, he hitchhiked from a relative’s home in Texarkana, Texas, to the borders of Hollywood.

He was talked into returning home, so he returned to Oil City High School, where he played deal with on the football group and was voted president of his senior class.

After a stint in the U.S. Navy, Holliman studied acting at the Pasadena Play house and made his expert launching with one line of discussion as an elevator operator in the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis funny Afraid Stiff (1953 ).

He had bit parts in 4 other movies that year, and in 1954, he played Spencer Tracy’s kid in Broken Lance and appeared with William Holden and Grace Kelly in The Bridges at Toko-Ri

In 1957, Holliman starred on an installation of CBS’ Play house 90 called “The Dark Side of the Earth,” which was composed by Serling. That put him on the author’s radar for The Golden Zone

Holliman got another World election in 1993 for playing a gruff bar owner on the brief ABC series Delta, starring Delta Burke, and he represented Luddie Mueller on the landmark 1983 ABC miniseries The Thorn Birds

His other television credits consisted of Gunsmoke, Cannon, Gold Mine, Slattery’s Individuals, The Fugitive, Dr. Kildare, The 6 Million Dollar Male, Empty Nest, Murder, She Composed and Caroline in the City

Holliman likewise remained in such as movies as I Passed Away a Thousand Times (1955 ), Hot Spell ( 1958 ), Last Train From Weapon Hill ( 1959 ), Summer Season and Smoke ( 1961 ), A Covenant With Death ( 1967 ), The Power ( 1968 ), Anzio (1968 ), The Biscuit Eater ( 1972 ), Bad City Blues ( 1999) and The Perfect Renter (2000 ).

Holliman ran the Carnival Supper Theatre in San Antonio for several years and worked as president of Actors and Others for Animals, which promoted animal population control.

Duane Byrge added to this report.