Joe Higgins

Joe Higgins was born on Jul 12, 1925 in USA. Joe Higgins's big-screen debut came with The Rifleman - Season 3 directed by Joseph H. Lewis in 1960, strarring Nils Swenson / Nils Swenson - Blacksmith / Scotty / .... Joe Higgins is known for The Small One directed by Don Bluth, Sean Marshall stars as Boy and William Woodson as Tanner. The upcoming new tvshow Joe Higgins plays is Saturday Supercade - Season 2 which will be released on Sep 17, 1983.

American character actor Joe Higgins was most prominent playing the character of a sheriff in commercials and public service announcements. An actor from the age of nine, he attended the University of Dayton (Ohio) and worked in radio while a student. He entered television and played recurring roles on such television series as L'homme à la carabine (1958) and Arrest and Trial (1963). His 1969 automobile commercial as a gravel-voiced sheriff became enormously popular, and Higgins played the character in scores of commercials, print ads and public appearances, twice winning the CLIO award for commercial actors. In addition to his acting, he earned a Ph.D. in Aviation Education from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He died in 1998. Services were held at Forest Lawn in the Hollywood Hills and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean off the channel Islands north of Los Angeles by his two children; Brian and Valerie.