Tim Holt
in the trailer for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Birth name	Charles John Holt III
Born	February 5, 1919 Beverly Hills, California
Died	February 15, 1973, aged 54 Shawnee, Oklahoma
Spouse(s)	Birdee Stephens (1952 - February 15, 1973) (his death) Virginia Ashcroft (? - ?) (divorced) Alice Harrison (? - ?) (divorced)

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Early Life

Born Charles John Holt III in Beverly Hills, California, he was the son of actor Jack Holt and his wife, Margaret Woods. He was sent to study at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana from which he graduated in 1936 then immediately went to work in the Hollywood film business. After five minor roles, in 1938, at the age of nineteen, Holt had a major role under star Harry Carey in The Law West of Tombstone. It would be the first of the many Western films he would make during the 1940s. At the same time, his sister, Jennifer Holt, would also become a leading star in the Western film genre. Beverly Hills is a city in the western part of Los Angeles County, California. ... Jack Holt (31 May 1888 - 18 January 1951) was a U.S motion picture actor. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Culver Academies. ... Culver is a town located in Marshall County, Indiana. ... ... Harry Carey (January 16, 1878–September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent films earliest superstars. ... Justus D. Barnes, from The Great Train Robbery The Western is one of the classic American literary and film genres. ... Jennifer Holt Jennifer Holt (November 10, 1920 - September 21, 1997) was an American actress. ...

Film Roles

Tim Holt had one of the leading roles in the Orson Welles 1942 drama, The Magnificent Ambersons but the following year he became a decorated combat veteran of World War II, flying in the Pacific theatre with the United States Army Air Forces as a B-29 bombardier. Tim Holt would return to filming after the war, appearing as "Virgil Earp" to Henry Fonda's, "Wyatt Earp" in director John Ford's Western, My Darling Clementine. Holt would next be cast in the role that he is probably most remembered for and a film where his father appeared in a small part. Tim Holt portrayed "Bob Curtin" next to the Humphrey Bogart character of "Fred C. Dobbs" in John Huston's classic, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Made in 1946, Holt did another four Western films before "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" would be released in 1948. Tim Holt made two dozen more Western films until 1952 when the genre's popularity waned. He would be absent from the screen for five years until starring in a less than successful horror film in 1957 then appeared in only two more uninspiring motion pictures during the next fourteen years. George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American theatre, screenwriter and film producer and director, and a theatre, radio and film actor. ... The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was a part of the U.S. Army during World War II. The direct precursor to the U.S. Air Force, the USAAF formally existed between 1941 and 1947. ... The Boeing B-29 Superfortress (Boeing Model 341/345) was a four-engine heavy bomber flown by the United States Army Air Force. ... Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 in Hartford, Kentucky - October 19, 1905 in Goldfield, Nevada) was one of the men involved in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. ... Fonda is the name of several places in the United States of America: Fonda, Iowa Fonda, New York It is also the family of actors: Henry Fonda actor Jane Fonda actress, activist, philanthropist and daughter of Henry Fonda Peter Fonda actor and son of Henry Fonda Bridget Fonda actress and... Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929), was a teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, and saloon-keeper in the Wild West and the U.S. mining frontier from California to Alaska. ... John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director famous for westerns such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such classic 20th century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath. ... My Darling Clementine is a 1946 western film which tells the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral between the Earp brothers and the Clanton gang. ... The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a black-and-white 1948 John Huston film in which two American down-and-outers (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) in 1920s Mexico hook up with an old-timer (Walter Huston, the directors father) to prospect for gold. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Death

In 1973, at the age of fifty-four, Tim Holt died from bone cancer in Shawnee, Oklahoma where he had been managing a radio station. He was interred in the Memory Lane Cemetery in Harrah, Oklahoma. A sarcoma is a cancer of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue. ... Shawnee is a city located in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 28,692. ... A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ... Harrah is a growing suburb located in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. ...

In 1991, Tim Holt was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Hall of Great Western Performers is a Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. ... Bronze Wrangler The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a museum and art gallery, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, housing one of the largest collections of: Western, American cowboy, American rodeo, and American Indian; art, artifacts, and archival materials, in the world. ... Nickname: Capital of the New Century, O-K-C, O-City, O-C Location in Oklahoma County and the state of Oklahoma. ...

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