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Tim Holt

Acting Born Feb 5, 1919 Beverly Hills, California, U.S. 24 credits

Biography

Tim Holt (February 5, 1918 – February 15, 1973) was a popular American film actor of the 1940s and early 1950s, appearing in forty-six "B" westerns released by RKO Pictures. Born in Beverly Hills to actor Jack Holt and his wife Margaret, he spent much of his childhood on set with his father, whose career began in 1914 during the silent pictures era and appeared mostly in westerns. Holt was signed to his first acting contract at the age of 17 by producer Walter Wanger who loaned him to RKO late that year. When that contract expired, RKO signed him to a seven-year contract and quickly put him to work, with Holt appearing in 24 westerns over the first three years for the studio to secure their permission for him to enlist during WWII. In 1943, he joined the Army Air Corps and became a distinguished B-17 and B-29 pilot in the Pacific Theatre, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart for bullet wounds he received while flying over Tokyo on the very last day of the war that ended in a crash landing. Once he had recovered, he returned to RKO to honor the remaining time of his contract, raising his total appearances with them to 46. In a career spanning more than four decades, he is best remembered for his leading role in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and co-starring in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) alongside Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston—the latter becoming enshrined in 1997 as No. 30 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years…100 Movies" list.

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Known for

Film

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

as Bob Curtin
Film

Stagecoach

as Lt. Blanchard

Psycho-Pass

as Richard Grosvenor III

Full filmography

  • Chevron Theatre (1952)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) as Bob Curtin
  • Stagecoach (1939) as Lt. Blanchard
  • My Darling Clementine (1946) as Virgil Earp
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) as George Minafer
  • Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) as Lance Ferris
  • His Kind of Woman (1951) as Bill Lusk
  • Stella Dallas (1937) as Richard Grosvenor III
  • Know For Sure (1941) as Jerry Anderson
  • The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) as Lt. Cmdr. John 'Twill' Twillinger
  • Hollywood (1923) as Jack Holt's Baby Son
  • Back Street (1941) as Richard Saxel
  • Bogart: The Untold Story (1997) as Self (archive footage)
  • Fifth Avenue Girl (1939) as Tim Borden
  • History Is Made at Night (1937) as S.O.S. Radio Operator (uncredited)
  • Rustlers (1949) as Dick McBride
  • Hitler's Children (1943) as Lieutenant Karl Bruner
  • Riders of the Range (1950) as Kansas Jones
  • The Law West of Tombstone (1938) as Ted, The Tonto Kid
  • Dude Cowboy (1941) as Terry McVey
  • Wagon Train (1940) as Zack Sibley
  • Red River Robin Hood (1942) as Jim Carey
  • Bandit Ranger (1942) as Clay Travers
  • Pirates of the Prairie (1942) as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant