Tim Holt
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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Movies (49)
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
as Bob Curtin (archive footage)
2003
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
1976
This Stuff'll Kill Ya!
as Agent Clark
1971
The Yesterday Machine
as Police Lt. Partane
1965
The Monster That Challenged the World
as Lt. Cmdr. John 'Twill' Twillinger
1957
Desert Passage
as Tim Holt
1952
Target
as Tim Holt
1952
Road Agent
as Tim Holt
1952
Trail Guide
as Tim Holt
1952
Overland Telegraph
as Tim Holt
1951
Hot Lead
as Tim Holt
1951
Pistol Harvest
as Tim
1951
His Kind of Woman
as Bill Lusk
1951
Gunplay
as Tim Holt
1951
Saddle Legion
as Dave Saunders
1951
Law of the Badlands
as Dave Saunders
1951
Rio Grande Patrol
as Kansas
1950
Border Treasure
as Ed Porter
1950
Rider from Tucson
as Dave Saunders
1950
Storm Over Wyoming
as Dave Saunders
1950
Dynamite Pass
as Ross Taylor
1950
Riders of the Range
as Kansas Jones
1950
The Mysterious Desperado
as Tim Holt
1949
Masked Raiders
as Tim Holt
1949
Stagecoach Kid
as Dave Collins
1949
Rustlers
as Dick McBride
1949
Brothers in the Saddle
as Tim Taylor
1949
Gun Smugglers
as Tim Holt
1948
Indian Agent
as Dave Taylor
1948
Guns of Hate
as Bob Banning
1948
The Arizona Ranger
as Bob Morgan
1948
Western Heritage
as Ross Daggert
1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
as Bob Curtin
1948
Wild Horse Mesa
as Dave Jordan
1947
Under the Tonto Rim
as Brad Canfield
1947
Thunder Mountain
as Marvin Hayden
1947
My Darling Clementine
as Virgil Earp
1946
The Avenging Rider
as Brit Marshall
1943
Stars on Horseback
1943
Sagebrush Law
as Tom Weston
1943
Fighting Frontier
as Kit Russell
1943
Hitler's Children
as Lieutenant Karl Bruner
1943
Pirates of the Prairie
as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant
1942
Red River Robin Hood
as Jim Carey
1942
Bandit Ranger
as Clay Travers
1942
Thundering Hoofs
as Bill Underwood aka Bill Dawson
1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
as George Minafer
1942
