Lieutenant Howard Hunter on Hill Street Blues, Dr. David Howser in Doogie Howser, M.D., Cpt. Stan Jones on Brooklyn South? All those characters are fine…whatever. But for me the late James B. Sikking is only the high-powered-rifle assassin in Point Blank.

Sikking was the guy who killed Lloyd Bochner‘s “Frederick Carter” and Michael Strong‘s “Stegman”…remember?

Unlike Thomas Matthew Crooks, Sikking’s downtown L.A. assassin was an excellent shot.

Born in 1934, Sikking was only 32 when he appeared in John Boorman‘s noir classic.