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Earl Holliman
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Actor Born: September 11, 1928 in Tennesas Swamp, Delhi, LA Biography:While many of Earl Holliman's bucolic screen characters tended to shy away from "book learnin," Holliman himself is a graduate of UCLA. Making his film debut with a one-line bit as a bellboy in "Martin" and "Lewis"' "Scared Stiff" (1953), Holliman went on to featured and co-starring roles in westerns and military dramas, usually cast as a hot-headed rustic with a streak of manic unpredictability. His larger film roles include the comic-relief cook in "Forbidden Planet" (1956), "Katharine Hepburn"'s girl-happy brother in "The Rainmaker" (1956)--a performance that earned him a Golden Globe nomination--and Matt Elder in the "John Wayne" starrer "Sons of Katie Elder" (1965). A nearly inescapable presence on television, Holliman turned in some impressive work on the many live TV anthologies of the 1950s. His portrayal of a shipwrecked marine in the 1958 "Kraft Theatre" production "The Sea is Boiling Hot,"... Full Biography
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