Sikking died of complications from dementia, according to a statement from his publicist, Cynthia Snyder, sent to Variety magazine on Sunday. “Hill Street Blues” was a serialized mixture of drama and comedy that is said to be one of the most influential TV shows of all time. It featured diverse, colorful and three-dimensional characters – the policemen and policewomen of the rundown Hill Street Station.
Sikking played Howard Hunter, head of the SWAT-like Emergency Action Team, over 144 episodes of the show, from 1981 to 1987. Hunter was often the show’s comic relief. Sikking, however, saw his humanity. “I thought there was great depth to the character because he was a very lonely guy,” Sikking told CNN in a 2014 interview. “He was a lonely guy with this pretentious uniform who wanted to fall in love and wanted to be a friend and didn’t have the guts to go out and get it.
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