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JACK HOLT
INFORMATION FROM IMDb
Date of Birth
31 May 1888,
New York City, New York, USA
Date of Death
18 January 1951,
Sawtelle, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Name
Charles John Holt
Height 6' (1.83 m)
Spouse
Margaret Woods (1916 - 18 January 1951) (his death) (3 children)
Ex-father-in-law of William Bakewell.
Great grandfather of Shaeffer Holt
Mini-Biography
Staunch, granite-jawed American leading man of silent and early talkie films,
much associated with Westerns.
A native of New York City, Holt often claimed to have been born in Winchester, Virginia,
where he grew up. The son of an Episcopal minister, he attended Trinity School in Manhattan,
then the Virginia Military Institute, from which he was expelled for bad behavior.
Giving up his vague hopes of becoming a lawyer, he went on the road,
engaging in numerous occupations. He mined gold in Alaska,
worked as both a railroad and a civil engineer, delivered mail, rode herd on cattle,
and played parts in traveling stage productions.
While looking for work as a surveyor in San Francisco in 1914,
he volunteered to ride a horse over a cliff in a stunt for a film crew shooting in San Rafael.
In gratitude, the director gave him a part in the film.
Holt followed the movie people to Hollywood and began getting bits and stunt jobs
in the many Westerns and serials being made there.
He impressed a number of co-workers at Universal Pictures,
among them Francis Ford and his brother John Ford, and Grace Cunard.
Holt soon became a frequent supporting player in their films, and then a star in serials.
A move to Paramount studios in 1917 cemented his leading man status,
and he became one of the studio's great stars, particularly
in a very successful series of Westerns based on the novels of Zane Grey.
Talkies proved no problem for Holt, and his career thrived,
although mostly in run-of-the-mill adventure films.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Holt entered the U.S. Army at the age of 54,
serving at the request of General George C. Marshall as a horse buyer for the cavalry.
Upon his return to pictures following the war, he alternated between character roles
in major films such as John Ford's They Were Expendable (1945)
and leading roles in minor Westerns.
He made a cameo appearance in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
which starred his son Tim Holt.
That same year father and son played father and son in a B-Western,
The Arizona Ranger (1948). Less than three years later, on January 18, 1951,
Holt died of a heart attack at the Los Angeles Veterans Hospital in Sawtelle,
a couple of blocks west of the Los Angeles National Cemetery where he is now buried.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jim Beaver
Trivia
One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
Father of actors Jennifer Holt and Tim Holt, with the latter of whom he bit-played
in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
Cartoonist Chester Gould drew his comic-strip character Dick Tracy
based on Holt's granite-jawed profile.
It is reported that he was cartoonist Al Capp's favorite actor,
and Capp drew his bumbling detective character Fearless Fosdick to closely resemble Holt.
The only time he, Tim Holt and Jennifer Holt worked together was in 1946
when the three appeared together on a CBS radio program entitled "All-Star Theatre",
a country-flavored show featuring Western music by Foy Willing and the
Riders of the Purple Sage with a dramatic sketch.
The Holts played father, son and daughter.
Became a life member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California
on July 13, 1928 based on his direct descent from Capt. John Marshall, 1700-1795.
His General Society membership number was 7810 and his
California Society membership number was 364.
Filmography
Actor
1951 Across the Wide Missouri ...Bear Ghost
1950 King of the Bullwhip ...Banker James Kerrigan
1950 Trail of Robin Hood ...Jack Holt
1950 Return of the Frontiersman ...Sheriff Sam Barrett
1950 The Daltons' Women ...Clint Dalton - Mike Leonard
1949 Red Desert ...Deacon Smith
1949 Task Force ...Captain Reeves
1949 Brimstone ...Marshal Walter Greenslide
1949 The Last Bandit ...Mort Pemberton
1948 Loaded Pistols ...Dave Randall
1948 Fools Awake ...Walt Bailey
1948 The Gallant Legion ...Captain Banner
1948 The Arizona Ranger ...Rawhide Morgan
1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ...Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
1947 The Wild Frontier ...Saddles Barton
1946 Renegade Girl ...Maj. Barker
1946 The Chase ...Cmdr. Davidson
1946 Flight to Nowhere ...FBI Agent Bob Donovan
1946 My Pal Trigger ...Brett Scoville
1945 They Were Expendable ...General Martin
1944 The Articles of War (Documentary short) ...Narrator
1943 Customs of the Service (Documentary short) ...Narrator
1942 Cat People ...The Commodore
1942 Northwest Rangers ...Duncan Frazier
1942 Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air ...Colonel MacDonald
1941 Holt of the Secret Service ...Jack Holt / Nick Farrell
1941 The Great Swindle ...Jack Regan
1940 The Great Plane Robbery ...Mike Henderson
1940 Fugitive from a Prison Camp ...Sheriff Lawson
1940 Alien Sabotage ...George Hollister
1940 Mutiny of the Seas ...Treasury Agent Conway
1939 Hidden Power ...Dr. Garfield
1939 Fugitive at Large ...Tom Farrow / George Storm
1939 Trapped in the Sky ...Major
1939 Whispering Enemies ...Stephen Brewster
1938 Strange Case of Dr. Meade ...Dr. Meade
1938 Crime Takes a Holiday ...Walter Forbes
1938 Reformatory ...Robert Dean
1938 Flight Into Nowhere ...Jim Horne
1938 Making the Headlines ...Police Lt. Lewis Nagel
1937 Under Suspicion ...Robert Bailey
1937 Trapped by G-Men ...G-Man Martin Galloway, Posing as Bill Donovan
1937 Outlaws of the Orient ...Chet Eaton
1937 Roaring Timber ...Jim Sherwood
1937 Trouble in Morocco ...Paul Cluett
1936 North of Nome ...John Raglan
1936 End of the Trail ...Dale Brittenham
1936 Crash Donovan ...'Crash' Donovan
1936 San Francisco ...Jack Burley
1936 Dangerous Waters ...Jim Marlowe
1935 The Littlest Rebel ...Col. Morrison
1935 Iron Fist ...Jim Burke
1935 Unwelcome Stranger ...Howard W. Chamberlain
1935 Storm Over the Andes ...Bob Kent
1935 The Best Man Wins ...Nick Roberts
1934 I'll Fix It ...Bill Grimes
1934 The Defense Rests ...Matthew Mitchell
1934 Black Moon ...Stephen Lane
1934 Whirlpool ...Buck Rankin (aka Duke Sheldon)
1933 Master of Men ...Buck Garrett
1933 The Wrecker ...Chuck Regan
1933 The Woman I Stole ...Jim Bradler
1933 When Strangers Marry ...Steve Rand
1932 Man Against Woman ...Johnny McCloud
1932 This Sporting Age ...Capt. John Steele
1932 Soldiers of Fortune ...Jim Kenyon
1932 Behind the Mask ...Jack Hart aka Quinn
1931 Maker of Men ...Dudley
1931 A Dangerous Affair ...Lt. McHenry
1931 Fifty Fathoms Deep ...Tim Burke
1931 White Shoulders ...Gordon Kent
1931 Subway Express ...Inspector Killian
1931 Dirigible ...Jack Bradon
1931 The Last Parade ...Cookie Leonard
1930 The Squealer ...Charles Hart
1930 Hell's Island ...Mac
1930 The Border Legion ...Jack Kells
1930/I Vengeance ...John Meadham
1929 Flight ...Panama Williams
1929 Father and Son ...Frank Fields
1929 The Donovan Affair ...Insp. Killian
1929 Sunset Pass ...Jack Rock
1928 Avalanche ...Jack Dunton
1928 Submarine ...Jack Dorgan
1928 The Water Hole ...Philip Randolph
1928 Court-Martial ...James Camden
1928 The Vanishing Pioneer ...Anthony Ballard / John Ballard
1928 The Smart Set ...Nelson
1927 The Warning ...Tom Fellows / Col. Robert Wellsley
1927 The Tigress ...Winston Graham, Earl of Eddington
1927 The Mysterious Rider ...Bent Wade
1926 Man of the Forest ...Milt Dale
1926 Forlorn River ...Nevada
1926 Born to the West ...'Colorado' Dare Rudd
1926 The Blind Goddess ...Hugh Dillon
1926 Sea Horses ...George Glanville
1926 The Enchanted Hill ...Lee Purdy
1925 The Ancient Highway ...Cliff Brant
1925 Wild Horse Mesa ...Chane Weymer
1925 The Light of Western Stars ...Gene Stewart
1925 Eve's Secret ...Duke of Poltava
1925 The Thundering Herd ...Tom Doan
1924 North of 36 ...Don McMasters
1924 Empty Hands ...Grimshaw
1924 Wanderer of the Wasteland ...Adam Larey
1924 The Lone Wolf ...Michael Lanyard
1923 Don't Call It Love ...Richard Parrish
1923 The Marriage Maker ...Lord Stonbury
1923 The Cheat ...Dudley Drake
1923 A Gentleman of Leisure ...Robert Pitt
1923 The Tiger's Claw ...Sam Sandell
1923 Nobody's Money ...John Webster
1922 Making a Man ...Horace Winsby
1922 On the High Seas ...Jim Dorn
1922 The Man Unconquerable ...Robert Kendall
1922 While Satan Sleeps ...Phil
1922 North of the Rio Grande ..Bob Haddington
1922 Bought and Paid For ...Robert Stafford
1921 The Conjuror's House ...Ned Trent
1921 The Grim Comedian ...Harvey Martin
1921 After the Show ...Larry Taylor
1921 The Mask ...Kenneth Traynor / Handsome Jack
1921 The Lost Romance ...Mark Sheridan
1921 All Souls' Eve ...Roger Heath
1921 Ducks and Drakes ...Rob Winslow
1920 Midsummer Madness ...Bob Meredith
1920 The Sins of Rosanne ...Sir Dennis Harlenden
1920 Held by the Enemy ...Col. Charles Prescott
1920 Crooked Streets ...Rupert O'Dare
1920 The Best of Luck ...Kenneth, Lord Glenayr
1919 Victory ...Axel Heyst
1919 Kitty Kelly, M.D. ...Bob Lang
1919 The Life Line ...Jack Hearne, the Romany Rye
1919 The Woman Michael Married ...Michael Ordsway
1919/II A Sporting Chance ...Paul Sayre
1919 The Woman Thou Gavest Me ...Lord Raa
1919 For Better, for Worse ...Crusader
1919 A Midnight Romance ...Roger Sloan
1919 Cheating Cheaters ...Tom Palmer
1918 The Squaw Man ...Cash Hawkins
1918 The Road Through the Dark ...Duke Karl
1918 The Marriage Ring ...Rodney Heathe
1918 Green Eyes ...Pearson Hunter
1918 A Desert Wooing ...Barton Masters
1918 The Claw ...Maurice Stair
1918 The White Man's Law ...Sir Harry Falkland
1918 The Honor of His House ...Robert Farlow
1918 Love Me ...Gordon Appleby
1918 Headin' South
1918 One More American ...Sam Potts
1918 The Hidden Pearls ...Robert Garvin
1917 The Secret Game ...Maj. John Northfield
1917 The Call of the East ...Alan Hepburn
1917 The Little American ...Karl von Austreim
1917 The Inner Shrine ...Viscount D'Arcourt
1917 Giving Becky a Chance ...Tom Fielding
1917 Sacrifice ...Paul Ekald
1917 The Cost of Hatred ...Huertez
1917 Patria
1916 Joan the Woman (uncredited)
1916 Mister Vampire (Short) ...Mr. Brooks
1916 The Better Man (Short) ...Joe Cullison
1916 The Black Sheep of the Family ...Kenneth Carmont
1916 The Fatal Promise (uncredited)
1916 Saving the Family Name ...Jansen Winthrop
1916 The Princely Bandit (Short) ...Count Michael
1916 Brennon o' the Moor (Short) ...The Mayor's Son
1916 Liberty ...Captain Bob Rutledge
1916 Mutiny (Short) ...Warren Gilcrest
1916 The Phone Message (Short) ...Laurelton
1916 The False Part (Short) ...J. Kenneth Simpson
1916 The Wire Pullers (Short) ...Mr. Page
1916 Maud ...Howard
1916 The Unexpected (Short) ...Betty's Sweetheart
1916 Behind the Mask (Short) ...Count Charles
1916 The Dumb Girl of Portici ...Conde (as John Holt)
1916 The Desperado (Short) ...The Sheriff
1916 The Madcap Queen of Crona (Short) ...Count Michael
1916 The Cry of Erin (Short) ...The Squire's Son
1916 Born of the People (Short) ...Mr. Jeffries
1916 His Majesty Dick Turpin (Short) ...Count Charles
1916 Her Better Self (Short) ...Jack Trevor
1915 The Power of Fascination (Short) ...Rafael
1915 As the Twig Is Bent (Short) ...Colonel Vail
1915 What the River Foretold (Short) ...Bill Ward
1915 Jewel ...Nat Bonnell
1915 A Cigarette - That's All (Short) ...Stanley Ivans (as Frank Holt)
1915 The Broken Coin ...Captain Williams
The Flash (Short) ...Frank Hoag
1914 The Master Key ...Donald Faversham
1914 Salomy Jane ...Solitaire-Playing Cowboy in Saloon (uncredited)
