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Tim Holt
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
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…
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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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2003
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Movie Bob Curtin (archive footage)
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1997
Bogart: The Untold Story
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie (archive footage)
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1976
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Movie (archive footage)
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1971
This Stuff'll Kill Ya!
Movie Agent Clark
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1965
The Yesterday Machine
Movie Police Lt. Partane
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1957
The Monster That Challenged the World
Movie Lt. Cmdr. John 'Twill' Twillinger
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1952
Desert Passage
Movie Tim Holt
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1952
Target
Movie Tim Holt
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1952
Road Agent
Movie Tim Holt
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1952
Trail Guide
Movie Tim Holt
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1952
Chevron Theatre
TV show
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1951
Overland Telegraph
Movie Tim Holt
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1951
Hot Lead
Movie Tim Holt
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1951
Pistol Harvest
Movie Tim
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1951
His Kind of Woman
Movie Bill Lusk
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1951
Gunplay
Movie Tim Holt
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1951
Saddle Legion
Movie Dave Saunders
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1951
Law of the Badlands
Movie Dave Saunders
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1950
Rio Grande Patrol
Movie Kansas
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1950
Border Treasure
Movie Ed Porter
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1950
Rider from Tucson
Movie Dave Saunders
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1950
Storm Over Wyoming
Movie Dave Saunders
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1950
Dynamite Pass
Movie Ross Taylor
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1950
Riders of the Range
Movie Kansas Jones
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1949
The Mysterious Desperado
Movie Tim Holt
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1949
Masked Raiders
Movie Tim Holt
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1949
Stagecoach Kid
Movie Dave Collins
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1949
Rustlers
Movie Dick McBride
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1949
Brothers in the Saddle
Movie Tim Taylor
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1948
Gun Smugglers
Movie Tim Holt
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1948
Indian Agent
Movie Dave Taylor
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1948
Guns of Hate
Movie Bob Banning
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1948
The Arizona Ranger
Movie Bob Morgan
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1948
Western Heritage
Movie Ross Daggert
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1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Movie Bob Curtin
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1947
Wild Horse Mesa
Movie Dave Jordan
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1947
Under the Tonto Rim
Movie Brad Canfield
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1947
Thunder Mountain
Movie Marvin Hayden
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1946
My Darling Clementine
Movie Virgil Earp
