Name
Tim Holt
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1919-02-05
Deathday
1973-02-15 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
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.
Known For
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A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat o...
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Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find o...
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Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them...
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The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother a...
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Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to fi...
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In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker W...
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A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from h...
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A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially p...
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A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWI...
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Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic ...
- 1942 The Magnificent Ambersons as George Minafer
- 1939 Stagecoach as Lt. Blanchard
- 1946 My Darling Clementine as Virgil Earp
- 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Bob Curtin
- 1937 History Is Made at Night as S.O.S. Radio Operator (uncredited)
- 1951 His Kind of Woman as Bill Lusk
- 1937 Stella Dallas as Richard Grosvenor III
- 1939 Fifth Avenue Girl as Tim Borden
- 1940 The Fargo Kid as The Fargo Kid
- 1957 The Monster That Challenged the World as Lt. Cmdr. John 'Twill' Twillinger
- 1971 This Stuff'll Kill Ya! as Agent Clark
- 1965 The Yesterday Machine as Police Lt. Partane
- 1943 Hitler's Children as Lieutenant Karl Bruner
- 1923 Hollywood as Jack Holt's Baby Son
- 1942 Red River Robin Hood as Jim Carey
- 1941 Back Street as Richard Saxel
- 1947 Thunder Mountain as Marvin Hayden
- 1947 Under the Tonto Rim as Brad Canfield
- 1941 Know For Sure as Jerry Anderson
- 1941 Dude Cowboy as Terry McVey
- 1938 The Renegade Ranger as Larry Corwin
- 1938 The Law West of Tombstone as Ted, The Tonto Kid
- 2003 Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' as Bob Curtin (archive footage)
- 1947 Wild Horse Mesa as Dave Jordan
- 1943 Fighting Frontier as Kit Russell
- 1952 Target as Tim Holt
- 1940 Wagon Train as Zack Sibley
- 1938 I Met My Love Again as Budge Williams
- 1950 Storm Over Wyoming as Dave Saunders
- 1939 The Rookie Cop as Clem Maitland
- 1952 Trail Guide as Tim Holt
- 1949 Stagecoach Kid as Dave Collins
- 1950 Riders of the Range as Kansas Jones
- 1948 Indian Agent as Dave Taylor
- 1976 Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch as (archive footage)
- 1952 Desert Passage as Tim Holt
- 1938 Sons of the Legion as Tim Holt
- 1950 Dynamite Pass as Ross Taylor
- 1940 Swiss Family Robinson as Fritz Robinson
- 1939 The Girl and the Gambler as Johnny Powell
- 1938 Gold Is Where You Find It as Lance Ferris
- 1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
- 1951 Overland Telegraph as Tim Holt
- 1940 Laddie as Laddie Stanton
- 1939 The Spirit of Culver as Capt. Wilson
- 1948 Western Heritage as Ross Daggert
- 1942 Land of the Open Range as Dave Walton
- 1942 Come on Danger as Jack Mason
- 1949 Rustlers as Dick McBride
- 1952 Road Agent as Tim Holt
- 1941 Along the Rio Grande as Jeff
- 1942 Riding the Wind as Clay Stewart
- 1949 Masked Raiders as Tim Holt
- 1942 Pirates of the Prairie as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant
- 1942 Thundering Hoofs as Bill Underwood aka Bill Dawson
- 1941 Robbers of the Range as Jim Drummond
- 1948 The Arizona Ranger as Bob Morgan
- 1950 Rio Grande Patrol as Kansas
- 1942 Bandit Ranger as Clay Travers
- 1941 The Bandit Trail as Steve Haggerty
- 1941 Six-Gun Gold as Don Cardigan
- 1943 Sagebrush Law as Tom Weston
- 1950 Rider from Tucson as Dave Saunders
- 1950 Border Treasure as Ed Porter
- 1948 Gun Smugglers as Tim Holt
- 1951 Saddle Legion as Dave Saunders
- 1949 The Mysterious Desperado as Tim Holt
- 1951 Law of the Badlands as Dave Saunders
- 1951 Hot Lead as Tim Holt
- 1951 Gunplay as Tim Holt
- 1951 Pistol Harvest as Tim
- 1943 The Avenging Rider as Brit Marshall
- 1949 Brothers in the Saddle as Tim Taylor
- 1948 Guns of Hate as Bob Banning
- 1941 Cyclone on Horseback as Stan Bradford
- 1928 The Vanishing Pioneer as John Ballard, Age 7
- 1997 Bogart: The Untold Story as Self (archive footage)
- 1943 Stars on Horseback
- 1926 Forlorn River as Child (uncredited)
- 1952 Chevron Theatre ( 1 episode )
