Jack Holt
Birthday: 1888-05-31
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Jack Holt (born Charles John Holt, Jr.) was an American film actor. He was a leading man of Silent and sound films and known for his many roles in Westerns.
Movies
Hidden Pearls
Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in lov...
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Cat People
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with...
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Mister Vampire
Edna's husband is unfaithful to her and has been accustomed to going out with the other woman. She i...
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The Squaw Man
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming...
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Joan the Woman
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, w...
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The Cost of Hatred
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he re...
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The Flash
Blind Carl Bauer is on the verge of regaining his sight. But in a moment of impulsive action tears o...
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Jewel
When her husband dies and leaves her penniless, Mrs. Lawrence Evringham moves in with her wealthy bu...
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What the River Foretold
Having struck it rich, two prospectors return to town, where one of them is to be married while the ...
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As the Twig Is Bent
L.C. Shumway has a dual role in this action-packed three-reeler. When the Booths divorce, their twin...
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Her Better Self
Yvette, known as a society woman, but in reality a leader of a gang of crooks, sits at the telephone...
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The Sacrifice
Stephen Stephani leaves Nordhoff with his daughter Mary to visit Zandria, an enemy country, where he...
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The Inner Shrine
Bad woman turns good, but as a recent widow finds her past a roadblock in terms of accepting remarri...
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Giving Becky a Chance
Since she is an only child, Becky Knight (Vivian Martin) is a bit spoiled by her parents (P.H. Sosso...
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One More American
George Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New Yor...
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Love Me
In a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and prop...
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The Claw
Clara Kimball Young stars as Mary Saurin, a British gentlewoman who journeys to South Africa to visi...
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A Desert Wooing
When wealthy cattleman Bart Masters (Jack Holt) comes East, he falls in love with social butterfly A...
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Across the Wide Missouri
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed te...
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His Majesty Dick Turpin
Troubled by the plight of the overtaxed citizens of the Kingdom of Corona, Prince Frederick is inspi...
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Born of the People
Cecil George is a stenographer to the wealthy Mr. Jeffries but struggling to get by on her meager sa...
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The Cry of Erin
The film illustrates the oppression of Irish peasants under early English rule, highlighting trials ...
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The Madcap Queen of Crona
A female reworking of “The Prince and the Pauper” when American Marcia Avery, on vacation in the lit...
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The Desperado
Seeking vengeance after they massacre a saloon full of people a man embarks on a journey to kill the...
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The Unexpected
Betty starts out for a walk and is warned by her sweetheart and his friends to be careful as there a...
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The Wire Pullers
A group of soldiers who, while attempting to pull barbed wire, face a series of comedic mishaps and ...
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The False Part
The story deals with moving picture life, much of the locale being around Universal City. Herbert Ra...
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The Marriage Ring
Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brut...
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Green Eyes
Southerner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings her...
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The Road Through the Dark
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morg...
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Cheating Cheaters
Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each pl...
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The Woman Thou Gavest Me
Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (J...
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The Woman Michael Married
Mira Sacky (Bessie Barriscale) will inherit a fortune if she is able to come up with ten thousand do...
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Kitty Kelly, M.D.
Kitty Kelly (Bessie Barriscale) has just graduated from medical school and she decides to set up bus...
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The Articles of War
A young American pilot, fighting in 1944, who writes a final letter to his father, a stoic veteran o...
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Customs of the Service
Documentary about the importance of discipline, team work and rank in the military....
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The Ancient Highway
When not cutting down trees and shouting "TIMMMM-BERRRRR!", Jack Holt has to deal with someone who's...
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The Great Swindle
In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse...
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Fugitive from a Prison Camp
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in...
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Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfei...
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Hidden Power
Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely n...
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Fugitive at Large
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio hold...
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Trapped in the Sky
In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraf...
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Whispering Enemies
Meet the man who stayed just inside the law with a brand new racket......
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The Light of Western Stars
Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and Noah Beery Sr., who starred together in Wanderers of the Wasteland, appe...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encou...
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The Thundering Herd
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre....
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The Phone Message
When Dr. Carson marries Daphne Standing among the guests is her former suitor, Laurelton. The couple...
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Mutiny
Captain Gant is a hard man. The closest he had ever come to having a friend was in the person of his...
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Brennon o' the Moor
In medieval Ireland Willy Brennon is a daring adventurer and highwayman in love with young Molly Baw...
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The Princely Bandit
Disguised as a prince a bandit attempts to steal a princess's heart and jewels, but his plan backfir...
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The Chalice of Sorrow
Isabel Clifford sits to be painted. Her artist is Marion Leslie, a man distracted by matters of the ...
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Empty Hands
Claire Endicott throws a wild party and her father walks in to find her flirting with the very marri...
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The Better Man
Big Jim Cullison, boss of the Henley logging camp, hires Grace Ivers. She proves very capable, and h...
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Trouble in Morocco
A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that ...
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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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A Gentleman of Leisure
Jack Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has just returned home to the States from London...
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Making a Man
Jack Holt, as Horace Winsby, the lead character. Winsby is a millionaire beet sugar king who owns ne...
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The Man Unconquerable
A conservative young man inherits his uncle's pearl fishery concession in the South Pacific. Upon hi...
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When Strangers Marry
In this action-drama, a railroad worker plys his trade at the straits of Malay. He begins a steamy a...
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Man Against Woman
Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots fo...
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This Sporting Age
Polo, a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals by driving a small b...
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War Correspondent
In this war drama, a brave reporter tries to remain detached while covering the war in Shanghai. Whi...
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White Shoulders
In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then ...
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Subway Express
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a...
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The Last Parade
During the war two friends love the same nurse. After the war one becomes a detective, the other a r...
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The Squealer
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his...
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While Satan Sleeps
With the help of Red Barton (Wade Boteler), Phil (Jack Holt) makes a spectacular escape from jail. H...
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Hell's Island
In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and b...
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Father and Son
A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower an...
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The Tigress
In Spain, a band of gypsies poach the deer in a neighboring estate. The gypsy chief, Tser (Harold Tr...
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The Call of the North
Galen Albret (Noah Beery) is the factor, or manager, of an important trading post of the Hudson Bay ...
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Man of the Forest
Nancy Raynor (Georgia Hale) is arriving from the East to see her dying uncle. Clint Beasley (Oland) ...
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The Grim Comedian
Actress Marie Lamont (Phoebe Hunt) has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her d...
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Born to the West
Dare Rudd and Bate Fillmore have been enemies since early childhood, primarily over the affections o...
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The Blind Goddess
Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. Hi...
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The Best of Luck
Leslie MacLeod (Kathryn Adams) comes to England from the U.S. so that she can settle financial affai...
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Behind the Mask
A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets....
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The Chase
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's f...
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Black Moon
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult....
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Task Force
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and ...
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San Francisco
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days befo...
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The Littlest Rebel
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife a...
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They Were Expendable
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat...
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Thunder Birds
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World...
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Dirigible
Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with ...
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Trapped by G-Men
Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men....
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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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The Donovan Affair
Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney....
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The Smart Set
A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match...
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Victory
Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island....
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Flight
Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Ni...
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King of the Bullwhip
A whip-cracking federal marshal goes under cover as a masked bandit to ferret out a gold-bullion thi...
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Return of the Frontiersman
A sheriff's son is falsely accused of murder, and a friend determines to clear his name and find the...
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The Best Man Wins
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work b...
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Flight to Nowhere
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets....
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Submarine
Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she ...
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Trail of Robin Hood
Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to ...
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Whirlpool
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists....
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The Defense Rests
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways....
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Vengeance
John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir...
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Brimstone
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hun...
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The Little American
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home i...
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A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat...
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Bought and Paid For
Jimmy Gilley is engaged to Fanny Blaine. Jimmy would like to live in a more luxurious style, so he a...
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The Secret Game
In the office of Major Northfield, the quartermaster of the Pacific Coast, a leak has been discovere...
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The Lost Romance
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by stag...
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Outlaws of the Orient
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be ...
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Midsummer Madness
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels ...
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Maker of Men
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject hi...
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The Wild Frontier
Outlaws are in control of the land so the town of Clayton City writes the governor for an honest mar...
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North of 36
A young woman inherits her father's large Texas ranch and plans to begin a cattle drive to Abilene, ...
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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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The Strawberry Roan
Young Joe is paralyzed as he is bucked by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. Angered, his father, Walt...
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Avalanche
An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son J...
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The Mysterious Rider
Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charle...
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The Border Legion
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho ...
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
Wanderer of the Wasteland is a 1924 American color silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and ...
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Crooked Streets
Gail Ellis, a secretary, accompanies Professor Silas Griswold and his wife to China on an expedition...
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The Wrecker
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another ...
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A Dangerous Affair
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook....
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The Daltons' Women
The Dalton gang has moved west taking new identities and Marshals Lash and Fuzzy are after them. The...
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Patria
Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States,...
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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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Salomy Jane
When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack ...
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End of the Trail
In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he b...
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North of Nome
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island...
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Under Suspicion
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his milli...
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On the High Seas
Three castaways all from differing levels of society reach and board a deserted schooner in mid-ocea...
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Red Desert
A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into a de...
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Northwest Rangers
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a no...
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Master of Men
One of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as Kay Wa...
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The Cheat
After losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexua...
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Ducks and Drakes
A spoiled rich young woman overspends from her parents' savings and ruthlessly vamps on young men th...
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My Pal Trigger
Gabby doesn't want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's hors...
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The Woman I Stole
A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's ...
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Storm Over the Andes
A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides...
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Flight Into Nowhere
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing...
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Making the Headlines
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief tr...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxin...
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Polo with the Stars
A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponie...
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Nobody's Money
Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person...
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For Better, for Worse
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, b...
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All Souls' Eve
The wife of sculptor Roger Heath is killed by a maniac because of Roger's madly jealous admirer Oliv...
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The Gallant Legion
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowin...
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The Call of the East
While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while wearing...
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Loaded Pistols
A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer....
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The Last Bandit
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortu...
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Wild Horse Mesa
Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Na...
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a rev...
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Sea Horses
Helen Salvia sets sail with her 4-year-old daughter for Panda, an isolated East African port, where ...
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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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Holt of the Secret Service
Feature version of the 1941 American serial film of the same name, made for export only, never shown...
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Fifty Fathoms Deep
In this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced older ...
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The Power of Fascination
A dramatic one-act film that takes place in Mexico. Juanita, who lives on a dilapidated ranch, has t...
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Roaring Timber
Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he...
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Unwelcome Stranger
Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believ...
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Headin' South
A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger k...
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The Awakening of Jim Burke
After his divorced wife dies, Jim Burke takes their son who she had been raising and he hasn't seen ...
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The Marriage Maker
A matchmaker sets out to have a rich woman marry the not-so-rich boy she loves, and tries to persuad...
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Don't Call It Love
Prima donna Rita Coventry charms Richard Parrish from his fiancée, Alice Meldrum. Tiring of Parrish,...
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The Water Hole
Judith Endicott, the daughter of a wealthy eastern banker, vamps Philip Randolph, an Arizonan, when ...
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A Midnight Romance
Marie, a hotel maid, falls in love with millionaire's son Roger, but Roger cannot marry her because ...
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Sunset Pass
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a ...
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Holt of the Secret Service
A murderous gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped the government's best engraver and is forcing him t...
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Naked Hearts
Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Ma...
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After the Show
After the Show was adapted from Rita Weiman's story "The Stage Door." Lila Lee plays Eileen, a starr...
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The Black Sheep of the Family
Although Kenneth Carmont and Esther Saunders, criminal Bert Saunders' sister, love each other, Esthe...
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The Life Line
Jack Hearne, known as the Romany Rye, prefers living with the gypsies rather than claiming the right...
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The Sins of Rosanne
Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she becam...
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A Sporting Chance
A young lady takes on a convict as her chauffeur, believing him to be a burglar. In reality, however...
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The Honor of His House
Marooned on a desert island, Dr. Robert Farlow and wealthy toxicologist Count Ito Onato both fall in...
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The White Man's Law
Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab ch...
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Court Martial
During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to...
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Hollywood Hobbies
This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some...
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Dangerous Waters
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an a...
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Hollywood Speaks
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist det...
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Eve's Secret
Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt...
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The Tiger's Claw
Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste g...
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Held by the Enemy
During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old f...
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I'll Fix It
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no p...
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The Great Plane Robbery
Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the cl...
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The Warning
This story of the British Silent Service operating on the coast of China finds Tom Fellows, captain ...
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The Enchanted Hill
Lee Purdy, the owner of a ranch on "Enchanted Hill," is subjected to repeated attacks by unknown ass...
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North of the Rio Grande
Son of Colonel Haddington, Bob leads a posse against raiders in a settlement. During his absence, on...
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Passport to Alcatraz
George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens wh...
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Crime Takes a Holiday
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an i...
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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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