MUMBAI: James B. Sikking, the actor who played the stern Lt. Howard Hunter on Hill Street Blues and the kind-hearted doctor dad on Doogie Howser, M.D., and a favorite of Steven Bochco, has sadly passed away. He was 90.
His publicist Cynthia Snyder said that Sikking passed away on Saturday at his Los Angeles residence due to complications resulting from dementia.
J Sikking's major credits include roles on film as the stuffy Captain Styles in Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), the director of the FBI in Alan J. Pakula's The Pelican Brief (1993), and a mocking hitman in John Boorman's Point Blank (1967).
Sikking was part of 144 episodes across all seven seasons (1981-87) of the acclaimed drama and received an Emmy nomination in 1984 for NBC's Hill Street Blues.
Bochco turned to Sikking again for Doogie Howser, and he played Vietnam veteran turned family practitioner David Howser, husband of Belinda Montgomery’s Katherine and dad of Doogie (Neil Patrick Harris), on all four seasons (1989-93) of that ABC show.
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He then portrayed a cop again for Bochco on Brooklyn South, which lasted one season (1997-98) on CBS.
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