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Earl Hindman

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Earl Hindman

Born October 20, 1942 in Bisbee, Arizona, USADied December 29, 200326 films

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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).

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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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three posterFirst watchThe Taking of Pelham One Two Three19747.5as BrownIn New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers while the authorities question about the method of their escape.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Silverado poster6.9Silverado19853 Men and a Baby poster6.23 Men and a Baby1987The Parallax View poster6.8The Parallax View1974Talk Radio poster7.1Talk Radio1988Taps poster6.7Taps1981The Brink's Job poster6.2The Brink's Job1978

Filmography

26 films as actor
  1. 2001FinalOfficial
  2. 1992Stay the NightMike Kettman Sr
  3. 1991Fires WithinSergeant
  4. 1991The Ballad of the Sad CafeHenry Macy
  5. 1990Rising SonVictor
  6. 1990Kojak: It's Always SomethingDonley
  7. 1988Talk RadioChet / Black John / Jerry (voice)
  8. 1988The Red SpiderStern
  9. 19873 Men and a BabySatch
  10. 1987Kojak: The Price of JusticeDanny
  11. 1986One Police PlazaDet. Jake Stern
  12. 1985SilveradoJ.T.
  13. 1983Murder in Coweta CountyJ.H. Potts
  14. 1981TapsLieutenant Hanson
  15. 1978The Brink's JobFBI Agent # 3
  16. 1977Greased LightningBeau Welles
  17. 1974Shoot It Black, Shoot It BlueGarrity
  18. 1974The Taking of Pelham One Two ThreeBrown
  19. 1974The Parallax ViewDeputy Red
  20. 1973Key WestRick
  21. 1973PuebloQMT Charles B. Law, Jr.
  22. 1971Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?Whitey
  23. 1971A Memory of Two MondaysWilliam
  24. 1969The Ultimate DegenerateBruno (as Leo Heinz)
  25. 1968The Kiss of Her FleshDon
  26. 1967Teenage Mother