I loved him.
Will it finally be revealed that he was gay?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 26, 2024 11:14 PM |
R1 Yes. His partner Curtis announced his death.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 26, 2024 11:15 PM |
Angie must be verklempt.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 26, 2024 11:16 PM |
The news of the 'Forbidden Planet' remake is probably what killed him.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 26, 2024 11:17 PM |
Aww... Why couldn't it have been the orange turd?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 26, 2024 11:19 PM |
Oh, man, this hurts. 96 or no, it hurts.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 26, 2024 11:25 PM |
He was a wonderful actor and I admired him as an animal rights activist. For 25 years, he served as president of Actors and Others for Animals.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 26, 2024 11:34 PM |
I always confused him with Darren McGavin.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 26, 2024 11:34 PM |
He looks amazing in that photo at R6. I can hardly believe he was 90???
Such a crush I had on the man watching 'Wide Country'. Co-star Andrew Prine died in 2022 at 86.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 26, 2024 11:44 PM |
Oh no, this awful! What happened?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 26, 2024 11:47 PM |
Wow - at 62 for me now, I remember him in a lot of work.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 26, 2024 11:49 PM |
RIP - and be free
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 26, 2024 11:49 PM |
Their commentary on a couple of the Police Woman episodes is hilarious to listen to.
They obviously liked working with each other.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 26, 2024 11:50 PM |
He had a long relationship with Anthony George who died in 2005.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 27, 2024 12:01 AM |
Oh, that handsome face... Big Dick Energy, I'll bet he left a trail of wrecked rectums behind him.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 27, 2024 12:02 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 27, 2024 12:05 AM |
The holy fuck...I was just looking at a clip of youtube of Giant not 2 minutes ago and someone in the comment section mentioned the few people in the cast that were still alive and one was Earl and I was genuinely shocked he was still alive....then I came on here and this pops up. Crazy. Anyway, rip, and here's a salut to Earl from my homies at MST3k
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 27, 2024 12:08 AM |
Did his gayness prevent him from a bigger career? Somehow, I don't think that Earl, unlike Rock and Tab, was widely assumed to be in the 50s and 60s.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 27, 2024 12:16 AM |
He was the star of the very first episode of The Twilight Zone - 'Where Is Everybody?'
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 27, 2024 12:33 AM |
I only knew him from The $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid with Dick Clark. That was a serious game show. The shit versions with Donnie Osmond and Kelly Ripa's ex partner suck.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 27, 2024 12:38 AM |
I always get him mixed up with Angie Dickinson.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 27, 2024 12:43 AM |
[quote] Oh no, this awful! What happened?
Skydiving accident, R12. Very sad.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 27, 2024 12:44 AM |
He was in the first episode of The Twilight Zone!
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 27, 2024 12:55 AM |
He was a wonderful actor and a true gentleman.I greatly admired him.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 27, 2024 12:57 AM |
Oh no. I'm really sorry to read this. I loved him in Police Woman. I thought him and Angie were great together. I thought he was handsome, too. R.I.Pš
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 27, 2024 1:02 AM |
I always mixed him up with Lucie Arnaz.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 27, 2024 1:09 AM |
All kidding aside, I used to confuse him with Richard Crenna. When you watch early performances, they both had the high-pitched voice, the lanky frame and the awkward teen persona going on. As they matured, they became more distinguishable from each other.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 27, 2024 1:45 AM |
Susan Dey is preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. She'll get to acknowledging Earl as soon as her pumpkin pie is out of the oven
by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 27, 2024 1:48 AM |
[quote]Oh no, this awful! What happened?
His heart gave out during his performance as Miss Mazeppa during his performance of "You Gotta Have a Gimmick" at the Opa Locka Playhouse and Dinner Theater's version of Gypsy. He had just gone into his choreography for "bump it with a trumpet" when he slipped on a fallen bugle bead from Tessie Tura's butterfly thong. Broke his hip. At that age, you don't recover.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 27, 2024 1:55 AM |
If you want to see a great Noir, see Earl Holliman in "The Big Combo". 1955. It's on YouTube.
Starring Cornel Wide.
Holliman plays a gay hitman together with his boyfriend. Really.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | November 27, 2024 2:03 AM |
Many years back after I discovered that he and Raymond Burr were gay I have never been shocked since when finding out someone I never dreamed was gay, but was. It's also when I decided that the percentage of males in the movie and TV industries who are gay but pretending to be straight, is huge.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 27, 2024 2:18 AM |
Was he ever on The Twilight Zone?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | November 27, 2024 2:20 AM |
[quote] It's also when I decided that the percentage of males in the movie and TV industries who are gay but pretending to be straight, is huge.
It may not be as true as it once was, but it seems that the acting profession over the years tends to attract a disproportionate number of gay men & women.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | November 27, 2024 2:24 AM |
Didn't he have a role in that TV movie "Alexander the other side of Dawn"? Damn the elder-elder gays are dropping like flies šššš
by Anonymous | reply 37 | November 27, 2024 2:26 AM |
R37, yep!
by Anonymous | reply 38 | November 27, 2024 2:28 AM |
OP, thank you! Earl was great with Pepper. Loved him in the Rainmaker.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | November 27, 2024 3:00 AM |
I do not appreciate IMDB's description of him as "slack jawed".
by Anonymous | reply 40 | November 27, 2024 3:02 AM |
He was good in Hot Spell, a movie he did with Shirley MacLaine
Also liked him as the crypto gay gangster in The Big Combo
by Anonymous | reply 41 | November 27, 2024 3:03 AM |
R37 yes he did.
He played an NFL quarterback who was in the closet and having a relationship with Alexander......I assumed he was supposed to be Joe Namath.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | November 27, 2024 3:22 AM |
Earl in Alexander:The Other Side of Dawn was the first gay daddy figure I swooned over, cognizant of them tingles in my then-11 year old loins. RIP
by Anonymous | reply 44 | November 27, 2024 3:33 AM |
Wow, People magazine quotes his spouse Craig Curtis, as confirming Earl's death.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | November 27, 2024 4:02 AM |
R43. Earl was in Alexander but the pro footballer was played by Alan Feinstein.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | November 27, 2024 4:32 AM |
Wow, People magazine quotes his spouse Craig Curtis, as confirming Earl's death.
So does Variety.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | November 27, 2024 4:46 AM |
I know a gay journalist who tried to get Earl to come out last year and he refused. I suspect this lesser actor-spouse is doing this revelation against Earl's final wishes to get his own name out there. Hey, 85-year-olds gotta work.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | November 27, 2024 4:53 AM |
[Quote] I always confused him with Darren McGavin.
Oh that sounds fun! Did you say something like, āDarren McGavin just stole your car!!!ā
by Anonymous | reply 51 | November 27, 2024 4:57 AM |
Perhaps Earl wanted it out there after he passed. Maybe he wanted his spouse acknowledged instead of identified as a 'friend.'
by Anonymous | reply 52 | November 27, 2024 4:57 AM |
...maybe...
by Anonymous | reply 53 | November 27, 2024 5:04 AM |
A somewhat morbid photo, considering the present circumstances, but Craig had a slammin' bod back in the day.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | November 27, 2024 5:14 AM |
R48 Right. Earl didn't play the closeted football player. R43 He played the psychologist-social worker type who tried to help and counsel Alexander from going down the hustler route.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | November 27, 2024 5:24 AM |
Loved him. RIP, Earl.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | November 27, 2024 5:27 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 60 | November 27, 2024 5:44 AM |
R50, it's normal for obituaries to name the surviving spouse/partner. Stop attacking this poor guy.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | November 27, 2024 6:18 AM |
Wow-hadnāt heard. Thx ādead to meā Was just thinking of him yesterday as Angieās name came up on a post. They were good friends He was so hot on police woman and I never imagined he was gay till reading of course on DL If only the rest of the world operated like DL- WEāD ALL BE DEAD!!!
by Anonymous | reply 62 | November 27, 2024 6:51 AM |
Atten. āDead to meā-please keep working on Trump.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | November 27, 2024 6:53 AM |
Earl was great. He played part of a gay henchman couple in the 1955 film noir āThe Big Comboā. Itās fairly obvious despite the Hayes Code with a shared bedroom and dialogue about sausages and closets. Itās easy to find on YouTube if you havenāt seen it.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | November 27, 2024 7:16 AM |
[quote]R35 Was he ever on The Twilight Zone?
Yes. The final one ever filmed.
Or he auditioned for it.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | November 27, 2024 7:18 AM |
A cool interview with him. (From Tab Hunter Confidential, although he doesn't talk about sexuality (at least in this clip). According to the commentary, he was about 88 when he did the interview, so I'd say he aged better than a lot of men do...
by Anonymous | reply 66 | November 27, 2024 8:44 AM |
^ Thank you for posting that clip. R66. What an amazing 88!
by Anonymous | reply 67 | November 27, 2024 11:41 AM |
[quote] it seems that the acting profession over the years tends to attract a disproportionate number of gay men & women.
And that's because we are infinitely more creative, talented, and expressive than the average heterosexual. I shudder at the thought of what a boring world we would live in if there were no homosexuals.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | November 27, 2024 11:59 AM |
His Wikipedia page is basically an homage to a man who spent his life doing good for others (human and non human). The fact that all his good works were kept so quiet from the public eye says a lot for him. I wasn't aware he was the president of Actors & Others For Animals for 25 years.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | November 27, 2024 12:22 PM |
Itās one of the best known facts of his life. Didnāt you ever read a TV Guide?! Or a Sunday newspaper magazine? Duh.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | November 27, 2024 12:27 PM |
Well pardon me R70. There's no need to be petty. I guess you're one of those extra expressive homosexuals we've heard tell about.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | November 27, 2024 12:32 PM |
Born on 9/11!
by Anonymous | reply 72 | November 27, 2024 12:33 PM |
R71 projection is not a good lol for you.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | November 27, 2024 12:37 PM |
I always mixed him up with Florence Henderson.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | November 27, 2024 12:38 PM |
Florence is the one in the blue sweater R74.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | November 27, 2024 1:43 PM |
[quote] it seems that the acting profession over the years tends to attract a disproportionate number of gay men & women.
[quote] And that's because we are infinitely more creative, talented, and expressive than the average heterosexual. I shudder at the thought of what a boring world we would live in if there were no homosexuals.
It's also due to the fact that gay men & women of Holliman's vintage didn't face the same societal pressures of their straight contemporaries to marry & start families, freeing them to explore more non-traditional paths.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | November 27, 2024 2:01 PM |
Earl must have had some stories.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | November 27, 2024 2:16 PM |
Here's "Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn" on YouTube.
Holliman plays a psychologist who works with the police and who becomes Alexander's guardian. Alexander then finds out Holliman is gay and is basically Holliman's kept boy.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | November 27, 2024 3:16 PM |
R78 Wait. I got that wrong.
Alexander goes to live with the gay football player and becomes *his* kept boy.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | November 27, 2024 3:19 PM |
I'm curious about that quirky Truman Capote-like haircut that Earl said brought him to the attention of the Paramount casting directors.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | November 27, 2024 3:27 PM |
R81. Leigh is now an artist and a hot grandpa. Married to the same woman since 1978.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | November 27, 2024 3:50 PM |
Thanks for the info, everyone.
All of these years later I certainly remembered it wrong!
Maybe I just wanted Alexander and Earl to get together.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | November 27, 2024 4:32 PM |
That $25,000 pyramid posted above was delightful
by Anonymous | reply 84 | November 27, 2024 4:51 PM |
R80 I was curious too, LOL
It must have been the one below.....this was a very famous pic apparently / on his first novel dustjacket
by Anonymous | reply 85 | November 27, 2024 5:27 PM |
Pepper, you're going undercover!
by Anonymous | reply 86 | November 27, 2024 5:37 PM |
He was in Giant with lots of other gays - Rock Hudson, James Dean, Sal Mineo...
by Anonymous | reply 87 | November 27, 2024 5:52 PM |
R87 Fag Hag Jane Withers must have had a field day with that bunch.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | November 27, 2024 6:20 PM |
Itās kind of amazing that an up-and-coming, good-looking young actor who was himself gay was willing to play such an obviously gay-coded role as in The Big Comboāin 1955! You always read that gay actors were the first to stay clear of such parts.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | November 27, 2024 11:18 PM |
Any behind the scenes gossip to report?
Earl's first role was an uncredited bit part in the Tyrone Power film, "Pony Soldier." .. Was Earl one of Tyrone's ponies?
Another early role was as the "Elevator Boy" in the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis comedy "Scared Stiff" (1953, which featured well-known gay Henry Brandon as "Pierre."
by Anonymous | reply 91 | November 27, 2024 11:31 PM |
r91, watching that little clip at r66 from Tab Hunter Confidential of Earl Holliman talking about his rise to fame, first as just a non-contractual extra to featured roles on the Paramount lot, you can just imagine all he left off about the casting couches and such. Oh, the goings-on!
by Anonymous | reply 92 | November 27, 2024 11:41 PM |
I assume the Tab Hunter interview was done after the Skippy interview but he starts off telling all the same stories. Damn Skip interrupts when Earl is about to talk about working with Katharine Hepburn.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | November 27, 2024 11:45 PM |
[quote] Oh no, this awful! What happened?
[quote] Skydiving accident, [R12]. Very sad.
That's how Luise Rainer and Olivia de Havilland went too!
There must be a Russian conspiracy at work.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | November 27, 2024 11:45 PM |
[quote]I know a gay journalist who tried to get Earl to come out last year and he refused. I suspect this lesser actor-spouse is doing this revelation against Earl's final wishes to get his own name out there. Hey, 85-year-olds gotta work.
[quote]IPerhaps Earl wanted it out there after he passed. Maybe he wanted his spouse acknowledged instead of identified as a 'friend.'
[quote]I[R50], it's normal for obituaries to name the surviving spouse/partner. Stop attacking this poor guy.
I'm with r52 and r61. I found it a little odd that r45 and r49 were surprised that People and Variety mentioned the spouse, but r50 attaching nefarious motives to a surviving partner confirming a death is downright bizarre - or maybe they were joking?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | November 28, 2024 1:14 AM |
^ Wow, that obit mentions his husband, I didn't know he was actually married
by Anonymous | reply 97 | November 28, 2024 4:41 AM |
I've always mixed him up with Mike Tyson. They look so similar.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | November 28, 2024 12:33 PM |
Earl recalls the days of live television: āAt the end of the first act, I was up to my neck in quicksand. As Iām being rescued, I have 90 seconds to have the folks backstage strip me down to a jockstrap, rinse me off, change my clothes, and I have to get on the other side of the stage for the next act, which has me cracking open a coconut. ...
LA Times obit
by Anonymous | reply 99 | November 28, 2024 1:58 PM |
R99 Oh, to be a stagehand stripping a young, hunky Earl Holliman down to a jockstrap.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | November 28, 2024 2:23 PM |
On some game show - it may have been The Movie Game hosted by Larry Blyden - Earl told the story that Paramount was sure he was going to get a Best Supporting Actor nomination for THE RAINMAKER.
They set up an interview for him to happen as the nominations were announced......with Miss Louella Parsons.
Earl wasn't nominated and he said the interview turned into a very embarrassing moment for all concerned - not that Louella was capable of being embarrassed.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | November 28, 2024 5:13 PM |
Shaboo-da!
by Anonymous | reply 104 | November 28, 2024 9:35 PM |
So young.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | November 28, 2024 9:41 PM |
R102/R103, thanks so much for posting those! I had no idea he sang--and he had a superb voice!
by Anonymous | reply 107 | November 28, 2024 10:07 PM |
He's already buried. We're they afraid he'd go off?
by Anonymous | reply 108 | November 28, 2024 10:10 PM |
Who wants to talk about the weather when our lips are close together?
by Anonymous | reply 110 | November 28, 2024 10:58 PM |
THE BIG COMBO is on TCM OnDemand if anyone wants to watch it.
I wish he had had a more attractive partner than Lee Van Cleef......but Earl sure was Jonesing on him......
by Anonymous | reply 111 | November 28, 2024 11:06 PM |
R109 that's a really fun song.....thanks to everyone posting those links!
Sing it, Earl!
There's so much kissin' we could do.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | November 28, 2024 11:08 PM |
Now so few well-known gay actors over 85 and still alive: Dick Chamberlain, George Chakiris, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, George Takei....any others?
by Anonymous | reply 113 | November 28, 2024 11:32 PM |
Daniel J, Travanti will be 85 in March.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | November 28, 2024 11:50 PM |
Has 86-year old Richard Beymer ever found the right woman to settle down with?
by Anonymous | reply 115 | November 29, 2024 1:22 AM |
Oh my he's got a hitch in his gitalong when he sings - like Patsy Cline.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | November 29, 2024 4:50 PM |
Who is Earl Hollimanās Husband Craig Curtis?
by Anonymous | reply 118 | November 29, 2024 5:33 PM |
R118 Well, that was a useless article.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | November 29, 2024 5:49 PM |
Years ago, I heard he was into twinks
by Anonymous | reply 120 | November 29, 2024 9:39 PM |
So anyway, does he have any new tv or movie projects lined up?
by Anonymous | reply 122 | November 29, 2024 10:14 PM |
I hear he is counting on an In Memoriam nod, r122.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | November 29, 2024 10:15 PM |
No, Larry, he doesn't.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | November 29, 2024 10:32 PM |
That article at R118 reads like it was written by a bot and, as those things typically go, doesn't really say anything at all.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | November 29, 2024 10:50 PM |
R121 he protected animals?! Well, I never heard of such a thing!
R71
by Anonymous | reply 126 | November 29, 2024 11:07 PM |
R120 I've told this story on DL before ...
One time my boyfriend and I stood in line at the movie theatre inside the Sherman Oaks Galleria, and we were right behind Earl and his two companions. This was ca. 1980. The Galleria was brand new, and the line was quite long, so it took awhile, letting us get a really good look at the trio. .. I think it would have been pretty obvious to any gay guy what was going on here. .. Age-wise the two young men were twinks (about 22), but they were both very athletic-looking, like college jocks, very fit and defined. I guess I'd say they had very nice diver builds and were sporting that then-trendy All-American Boy fashion look of the day. . .. Later, my boyfriend says to me, "Gee, if you were five years younger, he'd probably go for you." ..lol.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | November 29, 2024 11:39 PM |
That was dull.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | November 30, 2024 12:29 AM |
Not so dull later on when Earl got DPed.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | November 30, 2024 12:33 AM |
Earl does a good DVD audio commentary on the Twilight Zone episode he did. At one point the older Earl is critical of his younger self, saying Can't you do better than that?!
by Anonymous | reply 131 | November 30, 2024 1:10 AM |
The obit at Deadline appears to, uhh ... out of the loop.
It's final paragraph reads: "Holliman never married, and information on survivors wasnāt immediately available."
by Anonymous | reply 132 | November 30, 2024 1:34 AM |
When I googled Earl I discovered he ran a theatre where he often performed and played Zach in A Chorus Line! I would love to have seen that.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | November 30, 2024 3:57 AM |
r132, weird, because the Times obit mentions his husband
by Anonymous | reply 134 | November 30, 2024 5:11 AM |
I hope Craig plays Road to Nowhere at the funeral. It seems apt.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | November 30, 2024 5:13 AM |
Here's a screencap of Craig when he had a role on Adam-12 in 1968. He would have been 29.
I wonder if he hooked up with Kent McCord?
by Anonymous | reply 136 | November 30, 2024 7:49 AM |
Is there something we should know about Kent McCord?
by Anonymous | reply 137 | November 30, 2024 1:25 PM |
Come sit next to me.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | November 30, 2024 3:54 PM |
R136, he was pretty cute!
by Anonymous | reply 139 | November 30, 2024 8:01 PM |
R137 Rumored closet case in a lavender marriage.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | November 30, 2024 8:37 PM |
An actual rumor or a DL rumor, R140?
by Anonymous | reply 141 | November 30, 2024 8:52 PM |
R141 It was a pretty specific Reader Blind Item (hosted by Entertainment Lawyer) from an eyewitness account of an alleged incident that happened on the set when the "Emergency" and "Adam-12" crossover was in production. The story is that the two actors playing the paramedics on Emergency found out and began bullying him over it, to such a degree, that producer Jack Webb had to step in and order them to can it.
Plus, he and Ricky Nelson made a lovely couple.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | November 30, 2024 9:18 PM |
Oh now wait a minute-are you saying what I think youāre saying? āIS EVERYBODY GAYāā
by Anonymous | reply 143 | November 30, 2024 10:26 PM |
^^^ Craig's voice-over reel is very nice. I can see where he got such work. I wonder if he ever did the audio version of any books.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | November 30, 2024 11:46 PM |
we're at reply 145 and no first hand reports of any action at Earl's Fiesta Dinner Playhouse in San Antonio, Texas from 1977 to 1983?
work your sources, DL!
by Anonymous | reply 146 | December 1, 2024 12:55 AM |
R144 Curtis was a hot little dead body in that picture of him on IMDB.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | December 1, 2024 12:13 PM |
CBS Sunday Morning neglected to include Earl and Helen Gallagher in their weekly obits. WTF??
by Anonymous | reply 148 | December 1, 2024 2:48 PM |
We have specific standards, kids.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | December 1, 2024 3:16 PM |