He worked as a builder, produced rodeos, staged and performed Western music jamborees, and worked as an advertising manager for a radio station. However he kept busy managing theatres and making personal appearances. Over the next 16 years, he appeared in only two more motion pictures. Holt was then absent from the screen for five years until he starred in a less-than-successful horror film, The Monster That Challenged the World, in 1957. Dobbs in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).īefore the film was released, Holt did another four westerns and afterward made two dozen more up until 1952, when television eroded the B-western market. Holt was next cast in the role that he is probably best remembered for (in a film in which his father also appeared in a small part)-that of Bob Curtin to Humphrey Bogart's Fred C. He was wounded over Tokyo on the last day of the war and was awarded a purple heart.>įollowing the war, Holt returned to films, appearing as Virgil Earp to Henry Fonda's Wyatt Earp in the John Ford western My Darling Clementine (1946).
Holt 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. He also starred as a Nazi in Hitler's Children (1943), which was one of RKO's most profitable films during the war. His best known one was the lead in Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). Holt would occasionally make other movies. His most frequent director was Lesley Selander.
Holt usually played a cowboy who had one or two friends, who occasionally sang. These proved highly popular and Holt wound up making 46 of them for the studio in all.
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Although he initially appeared in a number of different genres, he was particularly effective in Westerns and RKO decided to star him in a series of low budget B-westerns. Holt soon became a favorite with RKO management, starring opposite Ginger Rogers and playing important roles in films such as The Girl and the Gambler and Swiss Family Robinson. However RKO signed Holt to a seven year contract in December 1938. Wanger then used Holt in the role of young Lieutenant Blanchard in the 1939 classic Stagecoach, then his contract expired. RKO tried him again in The Law West of Tombstone. They cast him in the Western The Renegade Ranger supporting George O'Brien, who was their leading star of B-westerns. In between he portrayed Anne Shirley's suitor in Stella Dallas (1937) for Sam Goldwyn, attracting the attention of RKO. Wanger gave him a small role in I Met My Love Again and was going to use him in Blockade, but that film was postponed. Holt was signed to a contract by Walter Wanger in January 1937. Immediately afterward, he went to work in the Hollywood film business. Holt was educated at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, graduating in 1936. During his early years, he accompanied his father on location, even appearing in an early silent film. Tim Holt (Febru– February 15, 1973) was an American film actor best known for his youthful leading roles in Western films and his co-starring role opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.Ĭharles John Holt III was born Februin Beverly Hills, California, the son of actor Jack Holt and Margaret Woods.
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