It was a sad day to see him pass... He played the perfect foil to Sellect's 'Magnum'...John Hillerman, an actor with stage, film and TV credits going back to the early 1960s, but best known for playing Higgins on Magnum, P.I. from 1980 - 80, died yesterday (Nov 9) at the age of 84.
Although he was born and raised in Texas, Hillerman played the proper English gentleman so convincingly on Magnum that a British peer referred to him in a fan letter as "a credit to the Empire."
A Texan that played an Englishman and a rube that could not fit in the Ferrari 408 even with seat removed!!!