John Hillerman

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The impeccably urbane Englishman Jonathan Quayle Higgins III (VC !) -- Tom Selleck's sophisticated majordomo in Magnum, P.I. (1980) -- was of French, German and Austrian descent, raised in a small Texas town and educated at a Catholic high school. He majored in journalism from the University of Texas, enlisted in the Air Force and spent the period from 1953 to 1957 stationed at Ft. Worth. There, he unexpectedly landed a choice role in a community theatre production of "Death of a Salesman" and discovered the acting lark to be to his liking. Having a photographic memory benefitted Hillerman greatly in that he learned his lines quickly. He professed to be able to memorise a page of dialogue in the space of a minute. There remained the problem of his accent. Following demobilisation, he travelled to New York where it took him a year to lose his Texan drawl, studying elocution under the tutelage of voice coach Fanny Bradshaw (who encouraged him to listen to recordings of Laurence Olivier reciting "Hamlet"). All the while, Hillerman lived the life of a typical struggling actor, having taken up residence in a lower East Side tenement and living on home-made turkey soup. After fifteen years of stage work and with a meagre $700 to his name, he decided to change his luck and make the journey to Hollywood.His first major break came along when he was picked for a small part in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971)). From then on he was rarely out of work, though initially tasked with only smallish supporting roles. By the mid-70s, after memorable back-to-back turns in Blazing Saddles (1974) and Chinatown (1974), Hillerman had established his credentials. His first opportunity to shine in a recurring TV role was as pompous radio sleuth Simon Brimmer ("Policemen snoop, without a glimmer. To solve the case, call Simon Brimmer...") who persistently got it all very wrong in TV's Ellery Queen (1975). A self-declared Anglophile with a solid acting background in plays by Noël Coward, he fairly jumped at the chance to portray Selleck's genteel sidekick Higgins in "Magnum" which was to become his personal favourite and career-defining role. - IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of John Hillerman’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

John Hillerman on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1973 to 1996. See the full graphs of the number of John Hillerman movies released per year from 1977 till 1996.

Top Genres

John Hillerman works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 20% of John Hillerman movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that John Hillerman worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that John Hillerman has worked on is 6.6.

6.6 / 10

John Hillerman's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Comedy,Crime,Drama
Paper Moon (1973)

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

8.1/10102 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Crime
Magnum, P.I. (1980)

The adventures of a Hawaii based private investigator.

7.5/1048 min

Available in 4 platform(s).