page_title: Earl Holliman
section_title: Stage
hierarchical_section_title: Earl Holliman / Career / Stage
caption_attribution_description: English: Earl Holliman Photographed by John Matthew Smith
context_page_description: Henry Earl Holliman is 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 and portrayed Sergeant Bill Crowley on the television police drama Police Woman throughout its 1974–1978 run.
context_section_description: After Wide Country ended its run in April 1963, Holliman spent the next two months traveling the country in the acclaimed musical Oklahoma! appearing in the lead role of Curly McLain. Later that same year, he appeared in the role of Mike Mitchell in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania summer tour of Sunday in New York and at the Avondale Playhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana in The Country Girl in the role of Bernie Dodd opposite Lee Bowman and Julie Wilson. Between September 4 and September 9, 1963, he starred in a production of The Tender Trap, opposite Anthony George, in the role of Charlie Y. Reader at the Westchester County Playhouse in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1968, he starred in the Los Angeles Mark Taper Forum production of Tennessee Williams Camino Real in the role of Kilroy; his performance was well received by critics and Williams himself not only came to see Earl's performance an approximate 11 times but he also sent him a correspondence praising his work in both Real and Streetcar as being "the best" interpretations of the characters "Kilroy" and "Mitch" he had even seen.  
  From September 15 to October 14, 1981, he starred in a stage production of Mister Roberts at the Fiesta Dinner Playhouse in San Antonio, Texas, of which he was owner. He occasionally performed at his theater when he was not working in Hollywood; other productions that he appeared in there included Arsenic and Old Lace as Mortimer Brewster from April 1 to May 4, 1980, and Same Time, Next Year with Julie Sommars in 1983. The facility closed after 1987. He also appeared in stage productions of the 1973 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire as Mitch
  and the 1977 Santa Monica Civic production of A Chorus Line as Zach the Choreographer.
caption: Holliman photographed in 1993
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