R.I.P. EARL HOLLIMAN

Imagi-film fans have long held you near to their hearts for your performance as the amiable Cook in Fred M. Wilcock/Cyril Hume's staggering, cinematic exploration, Forbidden Planet, and as anguished traveler Mike Ferris in Rod Serling's haunting, Twilight Zone classic, "Where Is Everybody?"  

In addition, you gave a variety of standout and nuanced performances for Gunfight at O.K. Corral; Last Train from Gun Hill; The Sons of Katie Elder; Devil's Canyon; Broken Lance; The Desperate Mission; American Harvest; Bridges at Tokyo-Ri; East of Sumatra; Anzio; The Rainmaker 1956; A Visit to a Small Planet; The Power; A Covenant with Death; Giant; Hot Spell; I Died a Thousand Times; The Big Combo; Summer and Smoke; The Biscuit Eater; Good Luck, Miss Wycoff; Hot Spell; The Thorn Birds; The Trap; Don't Go Near the Water; Sharkey's Machine; plus television roles in Gunsmoke; Alias Smith and Jones; Murder, She Wrote; Caroline in the City; The John Davidson Show; The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast (for Angie Dickinson), with recurring roles in Custer and Hotel de Paree, while squeezing in a series of sprightly, teen tunes for Capitol Records. 

Your ongoing role as Sergeant Bill Crowley on Police Woman (helmed by the aforementioned Dickinson) is another that fans highly appreciate and often recall: a fine example of bringing a brush of humility to an ever purposeful, civil servant. 

You were also a generous and charitable gent, Mr. Holliman, helping those in need whenever you could: a heroic force, therefore, on screen and off ... a man who gave his very best to the arts, but even more to the grand scope of humanity.