Earl Hindman played the character of Wilson on the television program Home Improvement. You never saw his whole face, just his eyes.

Earl Hindman was born on October 20, 1942 in Bisbee, Arizona. Earl studied acting at the University of Arizona. He started appearing in television roles in 1968 and had small parts in television and the movies. In 1975, he took the role of Detective Bob Reid on the daytime soap opera Ryan’s Hope. This role ended in 1989.

Hindman joined Home Improvement in 1991. Wilson was inspired by a neighbor that Tim Allen. Allen was too short to see over his neighbor’s fence and therefore unable to see his neighbor’s face. The gimmick wasn’t supposed to last, but Hindman made sure that it did. His full face can be briefly seen in a few episodes and at the final episode.

Hindman passed away on December 19, 2003 from lung cancer. He was 61 years old.