Earl Hindman

Earl Hindman

Born: October 20, 1942
Died: December 29, 2003
in Bisbee, Arizona, USA
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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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Movies for Earl Hindman...

Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Final
Title: Final
Character: Official
Released: June 8, 2001
Type: Movie
Waking up in a nearly empty room, Bill has strange recollections of his father's death and a car crash, and occasional paranoid delusions. Ann, a psychologist, tries to help him make sense of it all.
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Title: Hercules
Character: Pericles
Released: August 31, 1998
Type: TV
Follow Herc's many labors during the years he spent training on how to be a hero under the tutelage of satyr Phil. Many of the Olympian Gods and Goddesses pay visit to the young hero-to-be and help or hinder him in his new adventures.
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Title: Hercules
Character: Pericles (voice)
Released: August 31, 1998
Type: TV
Follow Herc's many labors during the years he spent training on how to be a hero under the tutelage of satyr Phil. Many of the Olympian Gods and Goddesses pay visit to the young hero-to-be and help or hinder him in his new adventures.
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Stay the Night
Title: Stay the Night
Character: Mike Kettman Sr
Released: April 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, Barbara Hershey and Morgan Weisser portray two star crossed lovers who will stop at nothing to be together without any ridicule. "Stay the Night" tells the dark tale of the controversial romance of a small town teenage boy named Michael Kettman and a free-spirited older woman named Jimmie Sue Finger, who suffers from an abusive marriage. Jimmie Sue and her younger lover plot to murder her husband, which leads to either eternal bliss for the both of them or a curse on their relationship.
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Title: Home Improvement
Character: Wilson Wilson Jr.
Released: September 17, 1991
Type: TV
The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and unseen neighbor.
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Fires Within
Title: Fires Within
Character: Sergeant
Released: June 28, 1991
Type: Movie
A Cuban emigre, living in Miami and involved in an affair with the American seaman who rescued her and her daughter years earlier, must face her husband after he is unexpectedly released from a Cuban prison.
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Title: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Character: Henry Macy
Released: March 28, 1991
Type: Movie
A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Defense Attorney Riley
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Rising Son
Title: Rising Son
Character: Victor
Released: July 23, 1990
Type: Movie
A factory foreman with 36 years experience becomes despondent after being laid off by his company which has just been taken over by a Japanese conglomerate and is unable to find any other work. Meanwhile, his son uses his father's unemployment as an excuse to drop out of the pre-med program his father pressured him to enter.
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Kojak: It's Always Something
Title: Kojak: It's Always Something
Character: Donley
Released: January 31, 1990
Type: Movie
After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prosecuted by former police detective Crocker, now an assistant D.A.
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Talk Radio
Title: Talk Radio
Character: Chet / Black John / Jerry (voice)
Released: December 21, 1988
Type: Movie
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
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The Red Spider
Title: The Red Spider
Character: Stern
Released: April 21, 1988
Type: Movie
A cop is found dead in a hotel, brutally murdered, a spider cut into his stomach. The police believes his death might be connected to the fact that he was a dirty cop - the internal affairs commission already was after him - but then several other people are murdered in the very same way, and there seems to be no connection between the cases. The police seeks for a blonde woman among the prostitutes.
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3 Men and a Baby
Title: 3 Men and a Baby
Character: Satch
Released: November 27, 1987
Type: Movie
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
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Kojak: The Price of Justice
Title: Kojak: The Price of Justice
Character: Danny
Released: February 21, 1987
Type: Movie
Top New York cop Theo Kojak finds himself trapped in a tangled web of false trials, jealousies and murderous scheming as he investigates the death of two young boys. Their bodies are discovered in a Harlem river, the boys mother is the major suspect. But what appears to be an open shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.
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One Police Plaza
Title: One Police Plaza
Character: Det. Jake Stern
Released: November 29, 1986
Type: Movie
A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.
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Title: Spenser: For Hire
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: TV
Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Lt. Elmer
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Findlay
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Silverado
Title: Silverado
Character: J.T.
Released: July 10, 1985
Type: Movie
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail, and learn who their real friends are.
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Title: Tales from the Darkside
Character: Harry Carson
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
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Murder in Coweta County
Title: Murder in Coweta County
Character: J.H. Potts
Released: February 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because the act of murder took place in Coweta County, it is under the jurisdiction of the Coweta County sheriff who hunts the murderer without trepidation.
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Taps
Title: Taps
Character: Lieutenant Hanson
Released: December 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
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The Brink's Job
Title: The Brink's Job
Character: FBI Agent # 3
Released: December 8, 1978
Type: Movie
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis, who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...
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Greased Lightning
Title: Greased Lightning
Character: Beau Welles
Released: July 1, 1977
Type: Movie
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
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Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue
Title: Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue
Character: Garrity
Released: December 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A white cop apprehends, then murders, a Black purse thief in the street. A Black film student witnesses the murder and begins surveilling the cop in his everyday life. Based on the novel "Shoot It" by Paul Tyner; filmed in Kansas City.
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Title: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Character: Brown
Released: October 2, 1974
Type: Movie
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
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The Parallax View
Title: The Parallax View
Character: Deputy Red
Released: June 14, 1974
Type: Movie
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
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Key West
Title: Key West
Character: Rick
Released: December 10, 1973
Type: Movie
A former CIA agent and his friend, operating a charter boat service in Florida, find themselves the target of an eccentric millionaire with a score to settle.
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Pueblo
Title: Pueblo
Character: QMT Charles B. Law, Jr.
Released: March 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.
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Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Title: Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Character: Whitey
Released: December 11, 1971
Type: Movie
A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest shown in the case by the police or anybody else in the neighborhood, and decides to investigate the case himself.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: William
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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A Memory of Two Mondays
Title: A Memory of Two Mondays
Character: William
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Workers in an auto parts warehouse in 1933 New York City inhabit a bleak, dead-end world in the depths of the Depression where, at least, they have jobs. Introduced by its playwright, Arthur Miller, it was the first in a series of NET Playhouse programs concerning life in America during the Depression years.
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The Ultimate Degenerate
Title: The Ultimate Degenerate
Character: Bruno
Released: April 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
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The Kiss of Her Flesh
Title: The Kiss of Her Flesh
Character: Don
Released: December 27, 1968
Type: Movie
Richard has lost what little sanity he had left, instead putting all emphasis on seeking out and brutally slaying any and every woman who crosses his path. However, this time he might have met his match as his deceased wife's sister, Maria, is hellbent on putting an end to his orgiastic rampage.
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Teenage Mother
Title: Teenage Mother
Released: November 22, 1967
Type: Movie
A new health teacher in a high school is nearly raped by drug-dealing students and is blamed when a student turns up pregnant.