Tim Holt
Birthday: 1919-02-05
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.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man...
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Stagecoach
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo...
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My Darling Clementine
Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of thei...
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search...
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History Is Made at Night
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her ...
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His Kind of Woman
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself...
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Stella Dallas
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter....
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Fifth Avenue Girl
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglect...
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The Fargo Kid
The Fargo Kid is mistaken for a killer and is hired to kill another man......
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The Monster That Challenged the World
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people....
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This Stuff'll Kill Ya!
A redneck con artist sets himself up as a preacher in a small Deep South town to run his moonshine d...
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The Yesterday Machine
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII....
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Hitler's Children
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German b...
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Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...
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Red River Robin Hood
An honest cowpoke (Tim Holt) comes to the rescue when the ranchers of Red River, AZ have their prope...
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Back Street
In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxe...
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Thunder Mountain
Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud sti...
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Know For Sure
A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis....
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Dude Cowboy
A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeite...
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The Renegade Ranger
Two Texas Rangers have their worlds rocked by a wrongfully accused female bandit....
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The Law West of Tombstone
A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town....
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Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."...
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Wild Horse Mesa
Dave and Chito are working for Melburn who is looking for wild horses. Olmstead has his men looking ...
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Fighting Frontier
An agent (Tim Holt) goes undercover as an outlaw and almost gets lynched....
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Target
A female marshal and a newspaper editor help heroic Tim Holt fight an evil land agent. Western....
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Wagon Train
In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight bu...
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I Met My Love Again
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until ...
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Storm Over Wyoming
Dave Saunders and his sidekick Chito, cowhands looking for work, arrive in Sundown Valley, Wyoming j...
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The Rookie Cop
A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's o...
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Trail Guide
A cowboy and his Mexican-Irish sidekick lead a wagon train to an unfriendly place....
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Stagecoach Kid
Crooked ranch foreman Thatcher sends his two henchmen, Parnell and Clint, out to murder his boss, we...
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Riders of the Range
Out-of-work cowboys Kansas Jones and Chito Rafferty are offered jobs at pretty Dusty Willis' ranch a...
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Indian Agent
Honest government agent Dave Taylor sets out to find the men responsible for stealing food supplies ...
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features....
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Desert Passage
Parolee John Carver seeks the stolen money he has hidden, but so does his girlfriend, lawyer and cel...
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Sons of the Legion
Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion ...
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Dynamite Pass
A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hopin...
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Swiss Family Robinson
A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family m...
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The Girl and the Gambler
An outlaw kidnaps a dancer and her lover in order to win a bet....
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a ...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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Overland Telegraph
Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Sela...
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Laddie
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military fat...
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The Spirit of Culver
Tom Allen, an orphan accustomed to waiting in bread lines is awarded a scholarship to the Culver Mil...
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Western Heritage
A forger has made a copy of a Spanish land grant and Arnold is after it. Arnold and his men attack, ...
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Land of the Open Range
A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison....
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Rustlers
A group of Arizona ranchers, trying to learn the identities of the Salt River Gang and prevent any f...
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Road Agent
Brand controls the only road to the cattle market and is charging exorbitant rates. Tim and Chito ro...
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Along the Rio Grande
A trio of cowboys infiltrate a cattle rustler's gang to seek vengeance for one of their fathers' mur...
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Riding the Wind
It's the ranchers whose cattle are dying of thirst versus Henry Dodge whose dam holds all the water....
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Masked Raiders
Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizin...
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Pirates of the Prairie
In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencervil...
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Thundering Hoofs
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge o...
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The Arizona Ranger
A disgraced veteran wanders the West alone until he decides to help a battered woman....
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Rio Grande Patrol
Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in...
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Bandit Ranger
Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to ...
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Sagebrush Law
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun ...
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Rider from Tucson
In order to make Tug Cardwell (William Phipps) sign over his rich gold claim to them, John Avery (Ro...
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Border Treasure
Two cowboys aim to reclaim stolen jewels and money in this 1950 Western....
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Law of the Badlands
The Texas Rangers send Dave and Chito into the badlands to see if they can locate a counterfeiting o...
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Hot Lead
Recently released from prison, nice guy Dave Collins finds himself unwillingly mixed up with his old...
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Gunplay
Landry has Sam Martin killed. When Tim and Chito find Martin and his son, Chip says Matt Potter was ...
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Pistol Harvest
Two men are accused of killing their boss. They are saved from the hangman's noose when two other gu...
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The Avenging Rider
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold....
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Brothers in the Saddle
When he thinks his brother has let him down, a cowboy goes bad....
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Guns of Hate
Ben Jason has found a lost gold mine. When Morgan learns this, he and his henchman chase down Jason ...
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Cyclone on Horseback
Whopper, Stan Bradford, and Smokey are delivering a herd of pack horses to telegraph lineman Jeff Co...
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The Vanishing Pioneer
A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through ...
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Bogart: The Untold Story
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film c...
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Stars on Horseback
A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCre...
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Forlorn River
A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die on ...
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