Tim Holt Overview:

Actor, Tim Holt, was born Charles John Holt III on Feb 5, 1919 in Beverly Hills, CA. Holt died at the age of 54 on Feb 15, 1973 in Shawnee, OK and was laid to rest in Memory Lane Cemetery in Harrah, OK.

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Holt was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum .

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Sagebrush Law, a Sagebrush Saga Starring

By C. S. Williams on Sep 17, 2016 From Classic Film Aficionados

It is hard to imagine that in the same year in which was portraying the insufferable-brattish, adult Georgie Minafer in Orson Welles? masterpiece, The Magnificent Ambersons, that he was starring in no less than six westerns. While Ambersons wrapped shooting by late January, Holt continued o... Read full article


Sagebrush Law, a Sagebrush Saga Starring

By C. S. Williams on Sep 17, 2016 From Classic Film Aficionados

It is hard to imagine that in the same year in which was portraying the insufferable-brattish, adult Georgie Minafer in Orson Welles? masterpiece, The Magnificent Ambersons, that he was starring in no less than six westerns. While Ambersons wrapped shooting by late January, Holt continued o... Read full article


Classic Movie Coincidence: John Carradine, and Red Buttons

By Annmarie Gatti on Feb 5, 2014 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

John Carradine, and Red Buttons share a birthday and a film (well, sort of): John Carradine and both starred in the John Ford classic, Stagecoach (1939) — and both Carradine and Holt were born today February 5 (13 years apart!). ?Red Buttons appeared in the 1966 remake of the... Read full article


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Tim Holt Quotes:

Lieutenant Karl Bruner: [to Anna] Blood runs to blood, and German blood runs deep.


George: I said, automobiles are a useless nuisance. Never amount to anything but a nuisance. They had no business to be invented.


Lucy: What are you studying at school?
George: College.
Lucy: College.
George: Oh, lots of useless guff.
Lucy: Why don't you study some useful guff?
George: What do you mean, useful?
Lucy: Something you'd use later in your business or profession.
George: I don't intend to go into any business or profession.
Lucy: No?
George: No.
Lucy: Why not?
George: Well, just look at them. That's a fine career for a man, isn't it? Lawyers, bankers, politicians. What do they ever get out of life, I'd like to know. What do they know about real things? What do they ever get?
Lucy: What do you want to be?
George: [fatuously] A yachtsman!
[Lucy reacts with astonishment]


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Tim Holt Facts
John Wayne and he were good friends ever since their Stagecoach (1939) days. Wayne visited Tim at the Shawnee Hospital shortly before his death. While living in Malibu years earlier, Wayne and Holt would practice shooting and different styles of wearing their holsters.

During World War II Holt was a member of the Army Air Corps and was wounded - ironically, on the last day of the war - in a bombing raid over Tokyo, for which he received a Purple Heart.

While in the Army during WW II Tim Holt narrated a VD film seen by U.S. military personnel for many years afterward.

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