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  CowboyDirectory.Com: Page H - 9
Jack Holt, actor, was born as Charles John Holt on May 31, 1888 in Winchester, VA. He started acting on stage and then in silent and talking movies.
Jack Holt died of a heart attack on Jan. 18, 1951.
She was the daughter of actor Jack Holt and sister of actors Tim Holt and David Holt.
www.cowboydirectory.com /H/h-ol.html   (1595 words)

  
  Tim Holt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Born Charles John Holt III in Beverly Hills, California, he was the son of actor Jack Holt and his wife, Margaret Woods.
Holt would next be cast in the role that he is probably most remembered for and a film where his father appeared in a small part.
In 1991, Tim Holt was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
tim-holt.mindbit.com   (388 words)

  
 Tim Holt - Hollywood Cowboy Star
Tim Holt was the son of Jack and Margaret (Woods) Holt, and was born February 5, 1919.
Jack was a member of Hollywood's early "royalty" and a bonafide silent film star.
Holt is in 3rd row from the bottom, on the far left.
www.surfnetinc.com /chuck/holt.htm   (553 words)

  
 Tim Holt - Eastern Oklahoma County
Holt was also known for an out-of-character role as a Nazi officer in "Hitler's Children" in 1943.
Holt was born in Hollywood and was the son of silent film western star Jack Holt.
Tim Holt, the cowboy movie actor who shunned the limelight and chose the community of Harrah as his home, was buried in the cemetery there Monday.
www.easternoklahomacounty.com /harrah/holt.htm   (1180 words)

  
 Lycos Movies - Celebrity - Tim Holt
Began his career as a child actor in silent films starring his father, Jack Holt, and graduated to juvenile parts in B productions of the 1930s.
Holt landed significant roles in Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942) and, opposite Humphrey Bogart, in John Huston's "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948).
In both cases he proved himself a highly capable actor, but most of his career was spent playing the hero in a series of enjoyable but routine B-Westerns at RKO.
entertainment.lycos.com /movies/celebrity.php?id=29318   (105 words)

  
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Jack Holt plays Jim Burke, a he-man construction foreman whose stomach is turned by his namby-pamby, violin-playing son Jimmie (Jimmie Butler).
Jack Holt, a former USMC Captain in Charlie Company and Tim Pletcher, of Delta Company, both served in the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion.
Holt saw action in Somalia, and Pletcher was in the Gulf War.
www.lycos.com /info/jack-holt.html   (322 words)

  
 Jack Holt - Biography - Moviefone
Holt was one of Columbia's most valuable commodities in the early talkie era, but his popularity waned as the quality of his films plummeted.
After serving as a major in World War II, Holt returned to films as a supporting actor, often (as in the 1950 Roy Rogers vehicle Trail of Robin Hood) playing thinly disguised variations on his own off-screen persona.
Jack Holt was the father of three film performers: western star Tim Holt, leading lady Jennifer Holt, and character actor David Holt.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/jack-holt/33036/biography   (208 words)

  
 Jack Holt (actor) - Slider   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Jack Holt (May 31, 1888 – January 18, 1951) was an American motion picture actor.
Jack Holt died in Los Angeles, California and is buried there in the Los Angeles National Cemetery.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Jack Holt has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6313–1/2 Hollywood Blvd.
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Jack Holt designed the GP14, originally sponsored by the Yachting World magazine, in 1949 for home construction from the then comparatively new material of Marine Plywood.
Holt was one of highest paid stars of the silent era.
Jack and Margaret remained married through Holt's death, although the couple had not lived together for many years.
www.lycos.com /info/jack-holt--miscellaneous.html   (522 words)

  
 Jack Holt
AN act of courage gave Jack Holt his opportunity to go into motion pictures.
Holt applied for the fall, and accomplished it so successfully that he was given a small part in the production and remained in motion pictures after that.
Holt made a reputation as a powerful actor in plays of action.
silentgents.com /BHolt.html   (380 words)

  
 Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Holt was usually content to act in low-budget horse operas, a decidedly unambitious actor.
But actors like to be pursued and coaxed and in that particular instance I didn't pursue it because I saw another person for the part.
Tim Holt's father, Jack Holt, who had been in silent films and went on to a long career in horse operas himself, appears briefly, sitting next to Walter Huston at the fleabag Oso Negro.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDTreasureSierraMadre.htm   (1658 words)

  
 Jennifer Holt - Cowboy Heroine
Jennifer Holt was the daughter of Jack Holt, and the sister of RKO cowboy hero Tim Holt.
Holt had several marriages, lived in the United States and Mexico, and resided in England at the time or her death in 1997.
And despite many reports throughout the years, an actor named David Holt (1927-2003) was NOT the brother of Jennifer and Tim Holt nor the son of Jack Holt.
www.surfnetinc.com /chuck/ladies3.htm   (384 words)

  
 Actors - Tim Holt
Born Charles John Holt III in Beverly Hills, California, he was the son of actor Jack Holt
Holt would next be cast in the role that he is probably most remembered for and a film where his father appeared in a small part.
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.
listing-index.ebay.com /actors/Tim_Holt.html   (455 words)

  
 Tim Holt at Brian's Drive-In Theater
Born Charles Holt in Los Angeles in February 1919 (some sources indicate 1918), western star Tim Holt was the son of silent screen actor Jack Holt.
Holt then freelanced in supporting roles in the dramas I Met My Love Again (1938; with Joan Bennett and Henry Fonda) and Gold Is Where You Find It (1938; with George Brent), and Sons of the Legion (1938; with Evelyn Keyes).
Tim Holt, in his Western debut, stars as a young gunslinger who falls in love with the daughter of the town's two-bit judge, who's been dispensing justice from the local saloon.
www.briansdriveintheater.com /timholt.html   (2598 words)

  
 Name: Vincent Leonard Price
Actor and writer, born in St Louis, MO. He travelled in Europe, studied at Yale, and became an actor.
A distinguished stage actor in his native Hungary, he ended up a drug-addicted pauper in Hollywood, largely thanks to typecasting brought about by his most famous role.
By the early 30's, she was at Paramount working with Gary Cooper and Jack Holt in a number of average films like Master of Men (1933).
www.msu.edu /~stouppea/actors2.html   (1500 words)

  
 Silent Era : People : Actors : Sessue Hayakawa
Jack Holt (1888-1951) was usually cast as Hayakawa’s ideologically ‘correct’ rival for the heroine’s love.
Holt moved on to greater fame as Paramount’s top Western and action-adventure star in the 1920s.
With the exceptions of The Cheat, The Secret Game (with Vidor and Holt) and The Tong Man that are available on VHS and DVD home video, many of Hayakawa’s films are presumed lost.
www.silentera.com /people/actors/Hayakawa-Sessue.html   (613 words)

  
 | Popular Films and Colonial Audiences: The Movies in Northern Rhodesia | The American Historical Review, 106.1 | The ...
In the vast company compounds that housed the African miners and their families on the Copperbelt, groups of African boys, "dressed in home-made paper 'chaps' and cowboy hats, and carrying crudely carved wooden pistols," were a ubiquitous presence running through the streets and alleys in endless games of cowboys and Indians.
Jack beats his friends skillfully, and it pleases me to see him plant blows on other men's faces." Another liked "best the cowboy films, because they teach us how to fight others and how to win lovers." A young, educated man explained that he felt "as if I am fighting.
"Jack" was supposedly a tribute to the actor Jack Holt.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/106.1/ah000081.html   (11800 words)

  
 Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." -- Peter DeVries
One of their very best was The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack (1943); a thirteen chapter cliffhanger that I think can stand with the best of any chapter-play from that particular period.
Jack decides just to cash in on the name (as did a radio show based on the strip, heard briefly over Mutual in 1939) by casting fresh-faced, plucky Tom Brown as Jack, a pilot commissioned as a one-man “Flying Tiger” with the Chinese on the brink of America’s entry into World War II.
Von Tuefel’s efforts to stop Jack and company at every turn will prove to be almost too easy, seeing as how she is operating right under their very noses, in the guise of reporter friend Gertrude Miller.
blogs.salon.com /0003139/2005/09/07.html   (682 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Tim Holt : Main
The son of actor Jack Holt and brother of actors David and Jennifer Holt, Tim Holt, born Charles John Holt III, debuted onscreen at age ten (playing his father's character as a child) in The Vanishing Pioneer (1928).
He went on to play earnest teenagers in the mid-to-late '30s, moving into roles as boyish Western heroes in man...
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 This is The North East | CommuniGate | STAGE AND SCREEN:
Many of the early film actors were quite content to stay anonymous, reasoning that the new flickers were a novelty and would damage their reputation on the legitimate stage.
Not knowing their real names, the movie going public would give their favorite actor's appropriate nicknames such as "the waif" or "the cowboy".
Jack Warner took the dog on a publicity tour.
www.communigate.co.uk /ne/filmguyernie/page12.phtml   (2910 words)

  
 Jack Holt (1888 - 1951) - Find A Grave Memorial
Jack Holt wrote a book, Lance and His First Horse, that was a tribute to his son, Tim Holt.
When I was a child I received a copy of this bood from his brother, Marshall Holt.
Marshall Holt gave me my nick-name "little Doc" (later shortened to "Doc") in 19...
www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5294   (60 words)

  
 Tim Holt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tim Holt (February 5, 1919 – February 15, 1973) was an American film actor.
Tim Holt had one of the leading roles in the Orson Welles 1942 drama, The Magnificent Ambersons but the following year he became a decorated combat veteran of World War II, flying in the Pacific theatre with the United States Army Air Forces as a B-29 bombardier.
This page was last modified 04:53, 17 December 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tim_Holt   (413 words)

  
 Jack Holt (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For Columbia Pictures, Holt starred in many early sound films opposite Richard Cromwell, notably Maker of Men (1931) which also featured John Wayne in one of his early film appearances.
 This article about an American film actor is a stub.
This page was last modified 22:32, 12 October 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Holt_(actor)   (204 words)

  
 Jack Holt - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art. Superstar - Star - Icon or just plain actor to some, ...
Jack Holt - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art.
Cases and Applications in Lotus 1-2-3: Releases 2, 2.2, 2.3, 3, and 3.1 by Jack A. Holt
Cases and Applications in Lotus 1-2-3: Releases 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, and 3.4 by Jack A. Holt
www.omega23.com /New_York_to_Malibu/Jack_Holt.html   (581 words)

  
 Eklectic Music & Movies //Jack Holt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt.
In the mean time, check out the plot summary at IMDB.
Starring Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Cameron Mitchell.
eklecticmovies.com /actor/1812/jack-holt   (46 words)

  
 Cracker Jack Movie Player Picture Card
This card, one of 22,689,122 purchased for the promotion according to one report, has an unidentified movie star's picture on the front and a biographical sketch of the actor on the back.
To join the Mystery Club with Movie Player Picture cards, children were challenged to identify the actors pictured on the cards, with the aid of clues printed on the back.
This is to certify that the bearer has collected the necessary number of Movie Player Pictures and guessed the names of the Players found in Mystery Cracker Jack or Mystery Checkers packages, and therefore, is now a member of the Cracker Jack Mystery Club.
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 NEWS | MAGAZINE | VOLUME 25-3 SEPTEMBER 2000
It's a family affair with fathers and sons on the set of the 1948 film classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
From left, actors Walter Huston and Tim Holt, director John Huston and actor Jack Holt who had a bit part.
Editor's Note: If you have an historic picture of DGA members on the set of classic productions and would like to have it considered for DGA Scrapbook, please contact us at (310) 289-5306 email Ted Elrick.
www.dga.org /news/v25_3/dept_dga_scrapbook.php3   (107 words)

  
 Gould, Chester - Dick Tracy Creator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The first detective hero in the strips, Tracy became a model for a variety of comic strip detectives including "Dan Dunn" and "Red Barry".
Biographies of Tim Holt suggests Gould patterned his famed detective, jut-jawed Dick Tracy, after his favorite actor, Jack Holt, father of Tim Holt.
He did his first strip "Fillum Fables" for the Hearst syndicate in 1924 and several others strips including "the Girlfriend" for the Chicago Tribune before he had an idea to create a new type of comic strip lead.
www.easternoklahomacounty.com /bios/gould-chester.htm   (529 words)

  
 Sunset Pass | MTV MOVIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Filmed at glorious locations on the Navajo reservation at Tuba City and in Flagstaff, AZ, this Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
In his second American film, aristocratic British actor John Loder plays the villain, a foppish rancher-turned-cattle rustler.
Sunset Pass was remade in 1933 as a vehicle for Randolph Scott, and again in 1946, starring James Warren.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/75661/moviemain.jhtml   (176 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Biography
Tim Holt (February 5th, 1919 - February 15th, 1973)
Charles John Holt Jr The son of actor Jack Holt and brother of actors David and Jennifer Holt, Tim Holt, born Charles John Holt III, debuted onscreen at age ten (playing his father's character as a child) in The Vanishing Pioneer (1928).
He went on to play earnest teenagers in the mid-to-late '30s, moving into roles as boyish Western heroes in many B-movies; from 1941-43 and 1948-52 he was a top ten box office star, and at one point was very popular among teenage girls.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/biography.asp?CTR=609072   (191 words)

  
 Jack Holt, U.S., golddigger/actor, Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone May 31 in History
Jack Holt, U.S., golddigger/actor, Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone May 31 in History
Jack Holt, U.S., golddigger/actor, Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
www.brainyhistory.com /events/1888/may_31_1888_62599.html   (45 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Trail of Robin Hood / Movie: Video: Roy Rogers,Trigger,Penny Edwards,Gordon Jones,Rex Allen,Allan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Plot Synopsis: Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one.
Actors: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Rex Allen, See more
I feel all these movies need to come out into theatres again so people can take a step back in time to remember and see the greatest actors and actresses in the world.
www.amazon.com /Trail-Robin-Hood-Movie-Rogers/dp/6300209172   (1009 words)

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