James Millhollin

Arthur James Millhollin was born on August 23, 1915, in Peoria, Illinois, and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he participated in numerous school productions. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1933 and subsequently developed his craft at the Omaha Community Playhouse before pursuing a professional career as a character actor.

Millhollin's Broadway career spanned from 1955 to 1959 and encompassed three productions. He made his Broadway debut in the comedy No Time for Sergeants in 1955, followed by the comedy The Girls in 509 in 1958. His final Broadway appearance came in 1959 with the musical Saratoga.

His television work in the early 1960s was extensive. In 1961 alone, he appeared in multiple series: as Osborne in the ABC sitcom Margie, as Harold in two episodes of CBS's The Ann Sothern Show, as Dr. Heydon in the CBS sitcom Dennis the Menace, and as Mr. Pinkham in the series finale of The Investigators. That same year he guest-starred in the first of four episodes he would make between 1961 and 1962 on CBS's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. He also portrayed a despicable bookkeeper and murderer named Ben Otis in an episode of Perry Mason. Between 1960 and 1963, Millhollin appeared in three episodes of The Twilight Zone, including The After Hours, Mr. Dingle, the Strong, and I Dream of Genie.

In 1962, Millhollin played a librarian in the film Bon Voyage! and was cast as Lt. Bronner in the CBS anthology series GE True, hosted by Jack Webb. The following year he co-starred as temp-agency boss Anson Foster opposite Imogene Coca in the series Grindl, and returned to Dennis the Menace as a burglar in the episode The Uninvited Guest.

His mid-1960s credits included a role as a sourpuss in the 1964 film Get Yourself a College Girl, an appearance on the George Burns sitcom Wendy and Me in 1965, and a role as a hair stylist in the fourteenth episode of the first season of Green Acres. In 1966, he played an airline ticket seller in the Get Smart episode The Amazing Harry Hoo, a bank official in the film The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, and a department store manager in a Christmas episode of The Beverly Hillbillies. That same year he appeared in the Batman television series as Alfred Slye, a criminal lawyer for Harry, the evil twin brother of Chandell, a character portrayed by Liberace. In 1966 and 1967, Millhollin played a hotel clerk and a store official across three episodes of the Marlo Thomas sitcom That Girl.

In 1968, he performed as Willoughby the Llama in the Lost in Space episode The Great Vegetable Rebellion. He also appeared in the pilot of The Brady Bunch as Mr. Pringle, and in 1969 played Horace Burkhart in The Con Man, an episode of CBS's The Doris Day Show. In 1970, he appeared in an episode of The Odd Couple as Humus, a funeral director for Felix's bird Albert.

Millhollin retired to Mississippi and died of cancer on May 23, 1993, in Biloxi, at the age of 77.