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John Hillerman passes

by Jonn Lilyea••29

Bobo sends us the sad news that John Hillerman, best known for his role in the television show Magnum PI as Thomas Magnum’s antagonist Jonathon Higgins has passed at the age of 84. He also made an appearance in the cult classic Blazing Saddles as Howard Johnson;

Like most of his generation, he was a veteran. Hillerman spent four years in the Air Force between the Korean War and the Vietnam War, leaving as a sergeant working in maintenance in a B-36 wing of the Strategic Air Command in Fort Worth, Texas. He says that the boredom of barracks life inspired him to become an actor.

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    4. What in the Wide World of Sports is a-goin’ on here? I hired you people to get a bit of track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!

      1. Jonn’s going to get pissed at what we’re doing to his thread,, but he’s the one that called Blazing Saddles a cult.

        I’ve been remiss in extended condolences to SGT Hillerman. Loved his work. Salute.

    5. “They say that right now, in Paris France, Louis Pasteur is working on a cure for anthrax.”

  3. Graybeard, Eden and other TAH Texans:

    John Hillerman was also a Texan, born in Denison and attended the University of Texas at Austin.

    Rest in Peace, SGT Hillerman. Thank you for serving our country.

    1. I saw that, too AP. Kinda funny how a ol’ boy from Denison can play a snob character.

      I bet he learned it from how some folks reacted to him being a small-town Texas boy.

        1. I didn’t either. But to misquote Mad-Eye Moody, I’m afraid the list of what I do not know would fill several books.

    2. I saw him on some talk show (maybe Johnny Carson), and he said he was from Weatherford TX. Maybe because people would not know where Denison is.

  5. His character Higgins and his Doberman Pinschers were fun to watch, R.I.P. SGT Hillerman.

  7. Rest in Peace Sgt. Hillerman.

    I always got a kick out of him playing one of his illegitimate half siblings on Magnum.

  8. Good bye Jonathan Quayle Higgins III, VC, formerly sergeant major, Yorkshire Regiment, Baron of Perth.

    JSFeller

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