Known for Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Earl Hindman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Born
October 20, 1942
Died
December 29, 2003 (age 61)
Birthplace
Bisbee, Arizona, USA
Filmography
28 films, 10 shows
Tim Allen Presents: A User's Guide to Home Improvement
Tim Allen Presents: A User's Guide to Home Improvement
2003 · 44m
country: Unknown
Tim Allen presents his own favorite clips, show bloopers, and personal reflections on the long-running series.


Final
2001 · 1h 51m
country: Unknown
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.


Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
1992
country: Unknown
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade is a live television special.


Stay the Night
1992 · 3h 20m
country: United States
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.


Fires Within
1991 · 1h 26m
country: United States
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.


The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991 · 1h 41m
country: United Kingdom
A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.


Rising Son
1990 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Gus Robinson loves three things: his job, family, and country; but suddenly he's losing all three. When his factory shuts down, Gus faces unemployment. It's a time of change for his wife Martha and son Charlie as they reassess a world Gus barely recognizes. But through the nightmare, one dream they cannot take away from him; the reason he will continue to fight: his son, Charlie.


Kojak: It's Always Something
1990 · 1h 36m
country: Unknown
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.


Talk Radio
1988 · 1h 49m
country: Canada
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.


The Red Spider
1988
country: Unknown
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.


3 Men and a Baby
1987 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.


Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987 · 1h 35m
country: United States
When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.


One Police Plaza
1986 · 1h 32m
country: Canada
A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.


Silverado
1985 · 2h 13m
country: United States
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.


Murder in Coweta County
1983 · 1h 40m
country: United States
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.


Taps
1981 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.


The Brink's Job
1978 · 1h 44m
country: United States
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...


Greased Lightning
1977 · 1h 36m
country: United States
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.


Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue
1974 · 1h 33m
country: United States
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.


The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1974 · 1h 45m
country: United States
In 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.


The Parallax View
1974 · 1h 42m
country: United States
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.


Key West
1973 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
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.


Pueblo
1973 · 1h 40m
country: United States
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.


Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
1971 · 1h 30m
country: United States
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.


A Memory of Two Mondays
1971 · 1h 27m
country: United States
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.


The Ultimate Degenerate
1969 · 1h 10m
country: Unknown
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.


The Kiss of Her Flesh
1968 · 1h 9m
country: United States
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.


Teenage Mother
1967 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A new health teacher in a high school is nearly raped by drug-dealing students and is blamed when a student turns up pregnant.