Earl Hindman
Actor
- Born
- October 20, 1942 · Bisbee, Arizona, USA
- Died
- December 29, 2003 (age 61)
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Earl John Hindman (October 20, 1942 – December 29, 2003) was an American actor, best-known for his role as the kindly neighbor (whose lower face was always hidden from sight from the television viewer) Wilson W. Wilson Jr. on the television sitcom Home Improvement (1991–1999).
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Long before this role, however, he played bad guys in two 1970s thrillers, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and The Parallax View.
Hindman's most famous and enduring pre-Home Improvement role was as Bob Reid in Ryan's Hope. He played the role in 459 episodes during the years 1975-1989. Ex-police officer Bob Reid was everybody's best friend who never got the girl, and was the long-suffering brother of the soap's serial bride Delia Reid Ryan Ryan Coleridge. Hindman's wife Molly McGreevey was also on the soap 1977-1981 as Polly Longworth, best friend to media tycoon Rae Woodard.
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Known for
3 Men and a Baby
November 27, 1987
Silverado
July 10, 1985
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
October 2, 1974
The Parallax View
June 14, 1974
Taps
December 20, 1981
Talk Radio
December 23, 1988
The Brink's Job
December 8, 1978
Greased Lightning
July 1, 1977
Final
June 8, 2001
The Ultimate Degenerate
April 25, 1969
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
March 28, 1991
Murder in Coweta County
February 15, 1983
Acting28
- 2003Tim Allen Presents: A User's Guide to Home Improvement as Narrator / Wilson Wilson Jr.
- 2001Final as Official
- 1992Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade as Self
- 1992Stay the Night as Mike Kettman Sr
- 1991Fires Within as Sergeant
- 1991The Ballad of the Sad Cafe as Henry Macy
- 1990Rising Son as Victor
- 1990Kojak: It's Always Something as Donley
- 1988Talk Radio as Chet / Black John / Jerry (voice)
- 1988