Hollywood Reporter. Holliman was born September 11, 1928, in Delhi, Louisiana. Holliman’s biological father died a few months before his birth.
His mom gave him up for adoption and he was adopted by Henry Earl Holliman and Velma Holliman, an oil field worker and a waitress. His childhoods included years spent in Texas and Arkansas. Holliman later praised his adoptive parents for lavishing him with love and instilling confidence in him.Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Holliman’s adoptive father dad died when he was just 13.
By this time, he’d already decided he wanted to be an actor. In his mid-teens, he hitchhiked to Hollywood but lasted there only a week before returning home. Holliman did a variety of jobs, including working in oil fields and washing dishes in restaurants.
He spent some time in the Navy, before leaving and studying at the Pasadena Playhouse.He wound up befriending studio executives after entering the Paramount lot by claiming he had an appointment with a barber.His Hollywood career began with a bit part in the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie Scared Stiff in 1953.Notable film roles included I Died A Thousand Times (1955), the cult b-movie Forbidden Planet (1956), the James Dean-starring Giant (1956), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor Motion Picture for the 1956 movie The Rainmaker, in which he featured alongside opposite Katharine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster.Holliman enjoyed a brief singing career with Capitol Records between 1958 and 1963 and toured the country in stage productions, including Oklahoma! He also had a long list of TV credits to his name.
This included appearing in the first-ever episode of The Twilight Zone (1959). Perhaps most famously, from 1974 to 1978, he portrayed Sergeant Bill Crowley opposite Angie Dickinson in Police Woman. He said the show changed his
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