Earl Holliman

Earl Holliman

Birthday: 1928-09-11

Place of Birth: Delhi, Louisiana, USA

Biography: 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.

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Giant
Giant

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful yo...

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Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scienti...

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their partic...

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The Big Combo
The Big Combo

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice ...

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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
The Bridges at Toko-Ri

A U.S. Navy pilot and his squad are assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges deep behind...

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I Died a Thousand Times
I Died a Thousand Times

After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before reti...

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Anzio
Anzio

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to ...

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Broken Lance
Broken Lance

Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the...

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Sharky's Machine
Sharky's Machine

Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous consp...

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Last Train from Gun Hill
Last Train from Gun Hill

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the ra...

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The Boy and the Bronc Buster
The Boy and the Bronc Buster

An orphan teen (Vincent Van Patten) follows a rider (Earl Holliman) on the rodeo circuit, unaware hi...

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The Sons of Katie Elder
The Sons of Katie Elder

The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and disc...

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The Power
The Power

One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move t...

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The Trap
The Trap

Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary...

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The Biscuit Eater
The Biscuit Eater

Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (Geor...

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Summer and Smoke
Summer and Smoke

In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the ra...

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Tribes
Tribes

A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees fin...

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Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins", is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in...

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Visit to a Small Planet
Visit to a Small Planet

The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien w...

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The Burning Hills
The Burning Hills

When Trace Jordan's brother is murdered by members of the land-grabbing Sutton family, he vows to re...

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Trooper Hook
Trooper Hook

When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to...

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Don't Go Near the Water
Don't Go Near the Water

Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War I...

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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1...

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Trapped
Trapped

A man is accidentally locked in a department store overnight and finds himself held at bay by six vi...

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Smoke
Smoke

A boy finds an injured German Shepherd Dog whom he names Smoke....

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Hot Spell
Hot Spell

Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, tries to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous e...

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Tennessee Champ
Tennessee Champ

A boxer desperate for money falls in with a shady promoter....

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Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon

A short documentary about Robby the Robot....

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A Covenant with Death
A Covenant with Death

An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he ...

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The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker

Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as...

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Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

In this sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Alexander's story is told in both the past an...

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Bad City Blues
Bad City Blues

In the aftermath of a violent robbery, a New Orleans doctor, Eugene Grimes, wakes to find a wounded ...

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Cannon
Cannon

In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man'...

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Where the Ladies Go
Where the Ladies Go

A small-town bar, open only from 9AM to 3PM and owned by Buck (Earl Holliman), is the setting where ...

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East of Sumatra
East of Sumatra

Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the...

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Armored Command
Armored Command

An American Army tank unit is trapped in a small French town in the Ardennes unaware that a spy amon...

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Children of 'Giant'
Children of 'Giant'

"Children of 'Giant'" is a documentary film that unearths deeply wrought emotions in the small West ...

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The Desperate Mission
The Desperate Mission

A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious tr...

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Montserrat
Montserrat

The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has e...

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Scared Stiff
Scared Stiff

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who ...

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Devil's Canyon
Devil's Canyon

An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun....

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Country Gold
Country Gold

An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. Howeve...

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The Perfect Tenant
The Perfect Tenant

Twenty years ago Danny Summer found his father hanging from the rafters on Christmas Eve. Ever since...

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Cry Panic
Cry Panic

A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that ...

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The Dark Side of the Earth
The Dark Side of the Earth

A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians....

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Destination Gobi
Destination Gobi

A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to s...

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The Solitary Man
The Solitary Man

A family man must make an adjustment after his wife of fifteen years one day blurts out that she wan...

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I Love You...Good-bye
I Love You...Good-bye

A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother,...

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Return to 'Giant'
Return to 'Giant'

In the summer of 1955, an army of cameramen, lighting techs and movie stars descended on the small, ...

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American Harvest
American Harvest

American Harvest is set in the heartland of Kansas. Two proud, stubborn families have not spoken to ...

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Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs
Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs

A made-for-TV propaganda short created during the height of 'the war on drugs' to expose drug usage ...

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The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War

After Col. Steve Austin fails to retrieve the contents of a safe owned by arms dealer Arlen Findlett...

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Nightman
Nightman

After lightning strikes saxophonist Johnny Domino, he finds he is telepathically tuned to the freque...

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Pony Soldier
Pony Soldier

Duncan MacDonald, a 19th-century Royal Canadian Mountie, has to escort a group of Cree Indians back ...

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The Girls of Pleasure Island
The Girls of Pleasure Island

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced E...

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Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet

A documentary about the making of, and legacy of, the Forbidden Planet movie....

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Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

He went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academ...

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Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission
Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission

WWII hero with the 4th Emergency Rescue Squadron, Lt. Royal Stratton, leads a deadly mission to save...

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Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed

In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being a...

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The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

Hayes visits con-artist Silky O'Sullivan at his San Francisco mansion and discovers that Kid Curry i...

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All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood

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Memories of Giant
Memories of Giant

A 1998 retrospective documentary exploring the making and legacy of George Stevens’ Giant (1956). Fe...

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