Tim Holt did a lot of special personal appearances. (Courtesy of Gary King and the Avondale Youth Center)
Holt also did personal appearance tours and rodeos to pick up some cash. Of those few films, only one was a starring role - he was a Navy officer battling THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD (United Artists, 1957), one of many mediocre 1950s sci-fi monster movies. Over the next twenty years, he appeared in less than a handful of movies. Tim Holt's last cowboy film was DESERT PASSAGE (RKO, 1952), and soon after, he abandoned Hollywood. During his last year at RKO, Tim did a support role in the Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell HIS KIND OF WOMAN (RKO, 1951) which included Vincent Price and Raymond Burr in the cast. Additionally, Holt worked in some memorable A grade films, co-starring as Virgil Earp in the John Ford directed MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (20th Century-Fox, 1946) with Henry Fonda and Victor Mature, as well as director John Huston's THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (Warner Bros., 1948), starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston. Richard "Chito" Martin was Holt's saddle pal during the entire group. Tim Holt - with a close cut hairstyle - in HITLER'S CHILDREN (RKO, 1943).Īfter the war, Holt continued his western career at RKO, and his films from this period rank at the top of the B western genre. The B-29 Superfortress crew - which included Tim - were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for their actions during a bombing run on May 29, 1945.
In mid 1945, he was attached to the 62nd Bombardment Squadron, 39th Bombardment Group.
Holt enlisted in the Air Corps on May 14, 1942, attained the rank of Lieutenant and served as a bombadier. And he had a meaty role in Orson Welles' THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Mercury/RKO, 1942). RKO also used Holt in some non-westerns: he starred as a Nazi youth in the wartime HITLER'S CHILDREN (RKO, 1943) with Bonita Granville. Morris Ankrum, who did many of the Hopalong Cassidy flicks using a screen name of Stephen Morris, portrays 'Red' Haggerty, a no good relative of Holt who reforms at the end and is killed in a blazing gun battle with Roy Barcroft and gang. One of his better films from this period is THE BANDIT TRAIL (RKO, 1941) which features Whitley and 'Lasses' White. Holt did eighteen RKO oaters which were released from 1940-1943, and his first starring role was WAGON TRAIN (RKO, 1940). In the Holt oaters, there were several sidekick groupings - singer Ray Whitley, Lee 'Lasses' White, whiskered codger Emmett Lynn, and Cliff 'Ukelele Ike' Edwards (who is more famous as the voice of the Walt Disney character Jiminy Cricket and singer of When You Wish Upon A Star).
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Recall the cavalry patrol in John Ford's STAGECOACH (United Artists, 1939) - the officer leading the troop was a young Tim Holt at about age 20.īy the early 1940s, Tim Holt had his own cowboy series at RKO, replacing the muscular O'Brien who had retired from films. Other film work included portraying Anne Shirley's boyfriend, Richard Grosvenor III, in the Barbara Stanwyck STELLA DALLAS (Samuel Goldwyn, 1937). By the late 1930s, Tim had the acting bug and worked at RKO in some oaters starring their current range hero, George O'Brien, as well as with veteran Harry Carey.
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