John Hillerman

Acting · Born 1932-12-20 in Denison, Texas, USA

Biography

John Benedict Hillerman (December 20, 1932 – November 9, 2017) was an American actor best known for his starring role as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on the television series Magnum, P.I. that aired from 1980 to 1988. For his role as Higgins, Hillerman earned five Golden Globe nominations, winning in 1981, and four Emmy nominations, winning in 1987. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Hillerman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• Chinatown as Russ Yelburton
• Paper Moon as Deputy Hardin / Jess Hardin
• What's Up, Doc? as Hotel Manager
• High Plains Drifter as Bootmaker
• The Last Picture Show as English teacher
• Blazing Saddles as Howard Johnson
• At Long Last Love as Rodney James
• The Nickel Ride as Carl
• Up the Creek as Dean Burch
• Audrey Rose as Scott Velle

TV

• Little House on the Prairie
• Lou Grant
• Murder, She Wrote as Jonathan Higgins
• Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
• Simon & Simon
• Hawaii Five-O as Donald Blair
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Mannix
• Tales of the Gold Monkey
• Kojak as Mark Gallant