Sitcoms Online Photo Galleries - Our Man Higgins: TV Guide For Nov. 3-9, 1962

Our Man Higgins aired from October 1962 until September 1963 on ABC.

Stanley Holloway, the veteran British music-hall comic who achieved fame in America in the role of Eliza Doolittle's father in My Fair Lady, was the star of this comedy. He played Higgins , a gentleman butler from Scotland, who found himself sent to America to serve a suburban couple, Alice and Duncan MacRoberts ( Audrey Totter, Frank Maxwell). They had " inherited " him as part of an ancestral bequest. The couple and their three children, Tommy, Dinghby, and Joanie ( Ricky Kelman, K.C. Butts, Regina Groves), were constantly being saved from various predicaments by the ever-resourceful Higgins.

Here is Frank Maxwell's Obituary from The New York Times

Frank Maxwell, 87, TV Actor Who Served as Union President

Published: August 16, 2004

Frank Maxwell, a character actor from the soap opera ''General Hospital'' and a longtime union activist with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, died on Aug. 4 at his home here. He was 87.

The cause was complications of heart disease, said his daughter, Chris Ann Maxwell, a senior vice president at 20th Century Fox.

Mr. Maxwell was the union's national president from 1984 to 1989. In a six-decade acting career, his most memorable role was as Dan Rooney on ABC's ''General Hospital,'' on which he appeared from 1978 to 1990. He also had regular roles in the television shows ''Our Man Higgins,'' ''The Second Hundred Years'' and ''Felony Squad.''

As the union's president, Mr. Maxwell led its development of the first health and retirement benefits for actors, news broadcasters and recording artists. Earlier, as Actors' Equity vice president, he helped establish a pension fund for stage actors.

Born in New York, Mr. Maxwell began acting after serving in the Army Air Forces during World War II. He worked mainly on stage until moving to Los Angeles in 1958 to work on the television show ''Playhouse 90.''

During the years he made more than 100 guest appearances on television shows, including several on ''The Twilight Zone.''

He and his first wife divorced in 1963 and he later married the actress Rita Lynn, who died in 1996. In addition to his daughter, Chris, he is survived by a stepdaughter, Donna Lynn; two step-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren.

For a Biography of Stanley Holloway go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Holloway