CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports:

Earl Holliman, the handsome actor who won a Golden Globe for his supporting role in “The Rainmaker” and appeared in numerous Westerns and dozens of films including “Giant” and “Forbidden Planet,” died Monday in Studio City. He was 96.

His partner Craig Curtis announced his death. Holliman also starred in the first episode of “The Twilight Zone” in 1959.

Some of his other film credits include “Broken Lance,” “The Bridges at Toko-Ri,” “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral,” “Don’t Go Near the Water,” “Last Train from Gun Hill,” “The Sons of Katie Elder” and “Sharky’s Machine.”

Read the full article. I never knew Holliman was gay.

RIP to Earl Holliman, who I’ll always associate with one of the great B-noirs, Joseph H. Lewis’s THE BIG COMBO, which is notable for casting him and Lee Van Cleef as a pair of queer-coded mob thugs. (The fact that Holliman was gay in real life just makes it all the more interesting.)

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— Christopher Smets (@cwsmets.bsky.social) November 26, 2024 at 5:33 PM

Earl Holliman, Star of ‘The Rainmaker,’ ‘Forbidden Planet,’ Dies at 96 https://t.co/Eq0GNVuVwG

— Variety (@Variety) November 26, 2024