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John Hillerman is a Actor American born on 20 december 1932 at Denison (USA)

John Hillerman

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Birth name John Benedict Hillerman
Nationality USA
Birth 20 december 1932 at Denison (USA)
Death 9 november 2017 (at 84 years)

John Benedict Hillerman (born December 20, 1932) is an American actor, known for his starring role as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on the television show Magnum, P.I.

Biography

Hillerman was born in Denison, Texas, the son of Christopher Benedict Hillerman, a gas station owner, and Lenora Joan (née Medlinger). His father was the grandson of immigrants from Germany and France. His mother was the daughter of immigrants from Austria and Germany. Young Hillerman grew up in Denison and attended St. Xavier's Academy.

After graduation, he attended the University of Texas at Austin for three years where he majored in journalism. In 1953, he joined the United States Air Force, serving for four years and achieving the rank of Sergeant. During his years of military service, he worked with various theatrical groups, and on his discharge he moved to New York City to study at the American Theatre Wing. In 1957, he began his career in professional theater.
Hillerman retired in 1999, and now resides in his home state of Texas.

Best films

Paper Moon (1973)
(Actor)
Chinatown (1974)
(Actor)

Usually with

Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
(2 films)
Polly Platt
Polly Platt
(4 films)
Madeline Kahn
Madeline Kahn
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John Hillerman (29 films)

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Actor

A Very Brady Sequel, 1h29
Directed by Arlene Sanford
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Tim Matheson, Barbara Eden, Henriette Mantel, Christopher Daniel Barnes
Roles Dr. Whitehead
Rating58% 2.900232.900232.900232.900232.90023
Following its predecessor, the film places the 1970s Brady Bunch family in a contemporary 1990s setting, where much of the humor is derived from the resulting culture clash and the utter lack of awareness they show toward their relatively unusual lifestyle.
Hands of a Murderer, 1h37
Directed by Stuart Orme
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Edward Woodward, John Hillerman, Anthony Andrews, Kim Thomson, Peter Jeffrey, Warren Clarke
Roles Dr. John Watson
Rating56% 2.8188152.8188152.8188152.8188152.818815
Londres, 1900. Alors qu'il va enfin être pendu, le professeur Moriarty, cerveau du crime et ennemi juré de Sherlock Holmes, parvient à s'enfuir. Il reprend aussitôt ses activités criminelles en volant un code secret utilisé par l'armée anglaise pour chiffrer ses communications militaires, code qu'il essaie de revendre au plus offrant, une fois la clé en sa possession. Moriarty enlève donc le créateur du code, le seul à en avoir la clé. Malheureusement pour Moriarty, il s'agit de Mycroft Holmes, frère aîné de Sherlock et éminence grise des services secrets...
Up the Creek, 1h36
Directed by Robert Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Tim Matheson, Frank Welker, Stephen Furst, Jennifer Runyon, Dan Monahan, Sandy Helberg
Roles Dean Burch
Rating55% 2.7532052.7532052.7532052.7532052.753205
Bob McGraw, Max, Gonzer, and Irwin, students at Lepetomane University (known derisively by some as "Lobotomy U"), are volunteered to compete in a collegiate raft race. They are "recruited" by Dean Burch who uses records of McGraw's checkered past as a means of blackmail to get them to compete. "You're not AT the bottom of the list. You ARE the bottom of the list!", says Burch. He even offers them degrees in the major of their choice as additional incentive. They're up against Ivy University, prep schoolers who, with the help of an Ivy alumnus named Dr. Roland Tozer, plan to cheat their way to the Winner's Circle.
History of the World: Part I, 1h32
Directed by Mel Brooks, Brian W. Cook
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, La préhistoire, Films about religion, Musical films, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Children's films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman, Gregory Hines
Roles Rich Man - The French Revolution
Rating67% 3.399823.399823.399823.399823.39982
The film is a parody of the historical spectacular film genre anthology, including the sword and sandal epic and the period costume drama subgenres. The four main segments consist of stories set during the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition, and the French Revolution. Other intermediate skits include reenactments of the giving of the Ten Commandments and the Last Supper.
Sunburn
Sunburn (1979)
, 1h41
Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, Paul Baxley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Farrah Fawcett, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins, William Daniels, John Hillerman
Roles Webb
Rating50% 2.511052.511052.511052.511052.51105
A private eye named Dekker goes to Acapulco to investigate a murder and hires the beautiful Ellie Morgan to pretend to be his wife.
Betrayal
Betrayal (1978)
, 1h36
Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lesley Ann Warren, Rip Torn, Richard Masur, Ron Silver, Bibi Besch, John Hillerman
Roles Victor Slavin
Rating61% 3.090043.090043.090043.090043.09004
Julie Roy, a young woman, approaches a maverick attorney, claiming that her psychoanalyst has raped her, and over a period of time used her for sex before discarding her.
Audrey Rose, 1h53
Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Ghost films
Actors Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift, Norman Lloyd, Robert Walden
Roles Scott Velle
Rating57% 2.8982752.8982752.8982752.8982752.898275
Ivy Templeton (Susan Swift) is a ten-year-old girl, living with her parents, Janice and Bill Templeton (Marsha Mason and John Beck), in New York City. Her parents notice a stranger stalking them over the course of a few weeks, and discover, over lunch with him, that his name is Elliot Hoover (Anthony Hopkins). Hoover is convinced that Ivy is a reincarnation of his daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before Ivy was born. Hoover had come to believe this through information given to him by two clairvoyant psychics. Bill asks a friend of his, an attorney, to hide in their apartment to hear Hoover's full story to build a case against him, but when Hoover speaks Audrey's name out loud, Ivy hears him from her room and enters an altered state where she cannot be calmed down without the assistance of Hoover. In this state, she bangs her hands on a window and becomes burned, which Hoover says is a result of his daughter's experience of being burned alive in the car.
Relentless
Relentless (1977)
, 1h30
Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Will Sampson, Monte Markham, John Hillerman, Marianna Hill, Larry Wilcox, Ted Markland
Roles Major Leo Hargit
Rating69% 3.4543253.4543253.4543253.4543253.454325
The Day of the Locust, 2h24
Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about films
Actors William Atherton, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Page, Lelia Goldoni
Roles Ned Grote
Rating68% 3.4459753.4459753.4459753.4459753.445975
A cynical and gothic look at Hollywood during the late 1930s, The Day of the Locust tells the tales of residents of the dilapidated San Bernardino Arms: Faye Greener, a trashy aspiring actress with limited talent, and her father Harry, a washed-up vaudevillian reduced to working as a door-to-door salesman; sexually repressed accountant Homer Simpson, who desperately loves Faye, and East Coast WASP Tod Hackett, an aspiring artist employed by the production department of a major studio, who also fancies Faye.
The Nickel Ride, 1h20
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Jason Miller, Linda Haynes, Victor French, John Hillerman, Bo Hopkins, Richard Evans
Roles Carl
Rating65% 3.2922953.2922953.2922953.2922953.292295
A crime boss named Cooper (Jason Miller) runs a set of warehouses in Los Angeles. Just as he is about to close a deal that will net him a whole block of L.A. turf, problems arise. As he continues to talk to the police and has a relationship with a young woman (Linda Haynes), Cooper's pals wonder if he is planning to reveal other things about their plans. Trouble is afoot.
At Long Last Love, 2h3
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Duilio Del Prete, Eileen Brennan, John Hillerman
Roles Rodney James
Rating52% 2.6062352.6062352.6062352.6062352.606235
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
Lucky Lady
Lucky Lady (1975)
, 1h58
Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, Geoffrey Lewis, John Hillerman, Robby Benson
Roles Christy McTeague
Rating53% 2.6542752.6542752.6542752.6542752.654275
During the Prohibition era, a young widow, Claire, gets involved in liquor smuggling and romance with two men, Walker and Kibby, off the San Diego coast. Organized crime controls bootlegging back east and wants to do the same here, so a hit man named McTeague is sent to deal with these amateur crooks, as is the Coast Guard, leading to various battles at sea.