James B. Sikking, the Steven Bochco preferred who depicted the no-nonsense Lt. Howard Hunter on Hill Street Blues and the good-hearted physician daddy on Doogie Howser, M.D., has passedaway. He was 90.
Sikking passedaway Saturday at his Los Angeles home of problems from dementia, pressagent Cynthia Snyder revealed.
Although finest understood for his TELEVISION work, Sikking did have noteworthy turns on the huge screen as a buffooning gunman in John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967), as the stuffy Captain Styles in Leonard Nimoy‘s Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) and as the director of the FBI in Alan J. Pakula’s The Pelican Brief (1993).
After costs the muchbetter part of 2 years revealing up on such reveals as The Outer Limits, Honey West, The Fugitive, Hogan’s Heroes and Mannix, Sikking was cast as the pipe-smoking Hunter, leader of the SWAT-like Emergency Action Team, on NBC’s Hill Street Blues.
Bochco, who produced the series with Michael Kozoll, paidfor Sikking the chance to shape his character, and the star based Hunter on a drill trainer he had cameacross throughout standard training at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
“The drill trainer looked like he had steel for hair and his uniform had so much starch in it, you understood it would [stand] in the corner when he took it off in the barracks,” he stated in a 2014 interview with The Fresno Bee. “So when I began to play Howard, I selected out the method he oughtto be dressed. It had to be a extremely military appearance.”
Sikking appeared on 144 episodes throughout all 7 seasons (1981-87) of the well-known drama and got an Emmy election in 1984.
Bochco turned to Sikking onceagain for Doogie Howser, and he played Vietnam veteran turned household professional David Howser, spouse of Belinda Montgomery’s Katherine and daddy of Doogie (Neil Patrick Harris), on all 4 seasons (1989-93) of that ABC program.
He then depicted a policeofficer onceagain for Bochco on Brooklyn South, which lasted one season (1997-98) on CBS.
One of 5 kids, James Barrie (named for the Peter Pan author) Sikking was born in Los Angeles on March 5,1934 His mom, Sue, established the Unity by the Sea Church in Santa Monica in thankfulness afte