Tim Holt
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 in the trailer for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
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| Born | Charles John Holt III February 5, 1919 Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Died | February 15, 1973 (aged 54) Shawnee, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1927–71 |
| Spouse | Birdee Stephens (1952-1973) (his death) Virginia Ashcroft (?-?) (divorced) Alice Harrison (?-?) (divorced) |
Tim Holt (February 5, 1919 – February 15, 1973) was an American film actor perhaps best known for co-starring in the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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[edit] Early life
Born Charles John Holt III in Beverly Hills, California, he was the son of actor Jack Holt and his wife, Margaret Woods. Holt was sent to study at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, from which he graduated in 1936. Immediately afterward, he went to work in the Hollywood film business.
[edit] Acting career
In 1938 at the age of 19, Holt, after five minor roles, landed a major role under star Harry Carey in The Law West of Tombstone. It was the first of the many Western films he made during the 1940s. During this time his sister, Jennifer Holt, also became a leading star in the western film genre.
After playing young Lieutenant Blanchard in the 1939 classic Stagecoach, Tim Holt had one of the leading roles in Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). He also starred as a Nazi in Hitler's Children (1943). After making this film, he became a decorated combat veteran of World War II, flying in the Pacific Theatre with the United States Army Air Force as a B-29 bombardier. He returned to films after the war, appearing as Virgil Earp to Henry Fonda's Wyatt Earp in the John Ford western My Darling Clementine. Holt was next cast in the role that he is probably most remembered for (in a film in which his father also appeared in a small part)—that of Bob Curtin to Humphrey Bogart's Fred C. Dobbs in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). Before the film was released, Holt did another four westerns and afterward made two dozen more up until 1952, when the genre's popularity waned.[citation needed] He was then absent from the screen for five years until he starred in a less-than-successful horror film, The Monster That Challenged the World, in 1957. Over the next 16 years, he appeared in only two more motion pictures.
[edit] Death
In 1973, at the age of 54, Tim Holt died from bone cancer in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where he had been managing a radio station. He was interred in the Memory Lane Cemetery in Harrah, Oklahoma. Tim Holt Drive in Harrah, where he and his wife had lived, was subsequently named in his honor.
In 1991, Tim Holt was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
[edit] Partial filmography
- Stella Dallas (1937)
- I Met My Love Again (1938)
- Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- The Spirit of Culver (1939)
- The Rookie Cop (1939)
- 5th Ave Girl (1939)
- Swiss Family Robinson (1940)
- Back Street (1941)
- Dude Cowboy (1941)
- The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
- Red River Robin Hood (1942)
- Hitler's Children (1943)
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- His Kind of Woman (1951)
- Target (1952)
- The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tim Holt |
- Tim Holt at the Internet Movie Database
- Tim Holt at Find a Grave
