Earl Holliman: Earl Holliman. Actor: Forbidden Planet. Ruggedly handsome, slack-jawed actor Earl Holliman was from meager surroundings in northeast Louisiana. His father, a farmer named William Frost, died several months before Earl's birth, forcing his poverty-stricken mother to give up seven of her ten children. He was adopted as a baby by an oil-field worker named Henry Earl Holliman and his waitress wife Velma, growing up in the Louisiana and Arkansas areas....
