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A news item involving John Hillerman was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 11 November 2017.

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Texas Native?

Wasn't he born in Texas? Shouldn't that be a part of this page?

Four episodes

I read "Hillerman portrayed the character of Jonathan Higgins on four separate television programs" on the IMDB too, but looking at his filmography, could only find three. Please clarify. ~Gatorgirl623~ 01:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clumsy comparisons

This passage is from the "Early Life" section. I have a couple of problems with it.

Ms. Sweeney recalls that although "Jackie Ben" loved to sing, actually he sounded like crap. However, she recalls him getting the opportunity to sing on local radio, in which his friends teased him for his "nasal" singing voice, which they thought sounded like Steve Urkel.

"Sounded like crap" is a very clumsy analogy. Unless this is an actual quote (in which case it needs an attribution and should be formatted as a quotation), might we substitute something a little less colloquial and a bit more precise? Perhaps something along the lines of, "...although Jackie Ben loved to sing, he was not very good at it."? This also will need an attribution, but at least it's more succinct.

Considering that "Steve Urkel" is a fictional character not created until the 1990s and Hillerman's brief singing career took place in the late 1940s, the comparison is completely inappropriate. Please describe what people thought he sounded like, as no one at that time could possibly have compared him to a fictional character that did not yet exist. 71.200.140.35 (talk) 13:18, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:THETRUTHPROTECTOR

The libelous sockpuppet is back. :( --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:36, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Awards

Considering Hillerman received no awards related to acting that I am aware of, can this section not just be removed instead of left active and empty? --Levontaun (talk) 00:47, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

homosexual?

in Hollywood, "bachelor" is often used for "homosexual", like in the Cary Grant / Randolph Scott relationship. Was John Hillerman gay, too? 93.219.135.210 (talk) 17:34, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Was"?? Is he dead??? --89.204.139.180 (talk) 02:12, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes.

But he wasn't when the above comments were made. I'm sure there aren't many 10-year-old boys from Denison, Texas, who love opera so much they travel to Dallas to watch Met performances. I'm very tempted to put "He never married" at the end of the section about his death, but of course I won't. —Mahāgaja · talk 07:12, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Accent

The article is written as if he developed the RP “English” accent he used in Magnum specifically to play Higgins; as by 1975 he was already using more or less the same accent to play Simon Brimmer in Ellery Queen, perhaps it should be stated earlier in the section that he has a facility for that dialect and accent…? Jock123 (talk) 09:13, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Contradiction

The body text says that his professional acting career began in 1957 and that he retired in 1999, but the infobox gives "years active" as 1970-2009. Unless someone is claiming that he began 13 years before he was "active" and that he remained "active" ten years after he retired, there is considerable contradiction here. 12.233.147.42 (talk) 21:41, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]