Tim Holt
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Tim Holt, 1948
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Charles John Holt III February 5, 1919 Beverly Hills, California, US |
| Died | February 15, 1973 (aged 54) Shawnee, Oklahoma, US |
| Cause of death | Bone cancer |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1927–71 |
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Charles John "Tim" Holt III (February 5, 1919 – February 15, 1973) was an American film actor best known for his youthful leading roles in dozens of westerns along with his co-starring role opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Tim Holt was born Charles John Holt III on February 5, 1919, in Beverly Hills, California, the son of actor Jack Holt and Margaret Woods. During his early years, he accompanied his father on location, even appearing in an early silent film. He was the inspiration for his father's book, Lance and His First Horse.
Holt was educated at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, graduating in 1936. One of his classmates was Budd Boetticher who recalled Holt "“used to walk around in our suite of rooms there…and he often had on his .38 revolvers and holster. He’d walk up and down the hall in his bathrobe and practice drawing his guns. He’d say, ‘I’m going to be a western star some day’.” Immediately after graduation he went to work in the Hollywood film business.
Holt was signed to a contract by Walter Wanger in January 1937. Wanger was going to use him in Blockade, but that film was postponed.
Instead he made his debut as Anne Shirley's suitor in Stella Dallas (1937) for Sam Goldwyn - the same role that another film star's son, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, had played in the 1925 version. When told he was given the role his father Jack said, "Fine. Let's have one good actor in the family."
Wanger then cast him in I Met My Love Again (1938) and Warners used him for a Technicolor Western, Gold is where you find It. In the latter the Los Angeles Times said Holt "confirms the favourable impression he gave" in Stella Dallas.
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