Date of birth: 1888-05-31
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Frank Holt, John Holt, Charles John Holt

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.

1918-02-18
Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in lov

1942-12-05
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with
1916-12-24
Edna's husband is unfaithful to her and has been accustomed to going out with the other woman. She i

1918-12-15
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming

1916-12-25
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, w

1914-11-16
A movie serial from 1914

1917-04-09
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he re
1915-08-10
A Cigarette - That's All
1915-02-07
Blind Carl Bauer is on the verge of regaining his sight. But in a moment of impulsive action tears o

1915-06-21
A movie serial directed by Francis Ford.

1915-08-30
When her husband dies and leaves her penniless, Mrs. Lawrence Evringham moves in with her wealthy bu
1916-01-19
Yvette, known as a society woman, but in reality a leader of a gang of crooks, sits at the telephone
1915-11-13
Having struck it rich, two prospectors return to town, where one of them is to be married while the
1915-11-25
L.C. Shumway has a dual role in this action-packed three-reeler. When the Booths divorce, their twin

1917-06-14
Bad woman turns good, but as a recent widow finds her past a roadblock in terms of accepting remarri

1918-03-18
In a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and prop

1917-06-17
Since she is an only child, Becky Knight (Vivian Martin) is a bit spoiled by her parents (P.H. Sosso

1917-03-03
Stephen Stephani leaves Nordhoff with his daughter Mary to visit Zandria, an enemy country, where he

1918-02-25
George Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New Yor

1918-06-10
Clara Kimball Young stars as Mary Saurin, a British gentlewoman who journeys to South Africa to visi

1918-06-23
When wealthy cattleman Bart Masters (Jack Holt) comes East, he falls in love with social butterfly A

1951-10-12
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed te
1916-03-22
Seeking vengeance after they massacre a saloon full of people a man embarks on a journey to kill the
1916-02-12
Troubled by the plight of the overtaxed citizens of the Kingdom of Corona, Prince Frederick is inspi
1916-03-17
The film illustrates the oppression of Irish peasants under early English rule, highlighting trials
1916-06-04
A group of soldiers who, while attempting to pull barbed wire, face a series of comedic mishaps and
1916-03-21
A female reworking of “The Prince and the Pauper” when American Marcia Avery, on vacation in the lit
1916-03-14
Cecil George is a stenographer to the wealthy Mr. Jeffries but struggling to get by on her meager sa

1918-08-26
Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brut
1916-04-26
Betty starts out for a walk and is warned by her sweetheart and his friends to be careful as there a

1918-08-26
Southerner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings her

1918-11-01
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morg
1916-06-20
The story deals with moving picture life, much of the locale being around Universal City. Herbert Ra

1919-01-26
Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each pl

1919-05-25
Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (J

1919-07-27
Mira Sacky (Bessie Barriscale) will inherit a fortune if she is able to come up with ten thousand do

1919-10-12
Kitty Kelly (Bessie Barriscale) has just graduated from medical school and she decides to set up bus
1944-01-01
A young American pilot, fighting in 1944, who writes a final letter to his father, a stoic veteran o
1943-01-01
Documentary about the importance of discipline, team work and rank in the military.

1939-09-07
Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely n

1940-10-05
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in

1940-03-07
Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfei

1925-11-08
When not cutting down trees and shouting "TIMMMM-BERRRRR!", Jack Holt has to deal with someone who's

1941-04-10
In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse

1939-06-01
In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraf

1939-12-07
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio hold

1939-03-24
Meet the man who stayed just inside the law with a brand new racket...

1925-06-22
Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and Noah Beery Sr., who starred together in Wanderers of the Wasteland, appe
1916-06-30
Captain Gant is a hard man. The closest he had ever come to having a friend was in the person of his

1925-03-01
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
1916-09-09
Disguised as a prince a bandit attempts to steal a princess's heart and jewels, but his plan backfir

1916-10-09
Isabel Clifford sits to be painted. Her artist is Marion Leslie, a man distracted by matters of the

1938-06-20
A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.

1938-12-15
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encou
1916-07-21
When Dr. Carson marries Daphne Standing among the guests is her former suitor, Laurelton. The couple

1924-08-17
Claire Endicott throws a wild party and her father walks in to find her flirting with the very marri
1916-10-28
Big Jim Cullison, boss of the Henley logging camp, hires Grace Ivers. She proves very capable, and h

1937-03-09
A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that
1916-08-27
In medieval Ireland Willy Brennon is a daring adventurer and highwayman in love with young Molly Baw
1922-12-17
Jack Holt, as Horace Winsby, the lead character. Winsby is a millionaire beet sugar king who owns ne
1923-07-15
Jack Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has just returned home to the States from London

1923-08-19
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l

1922-07-02
A conservative young man inherits his uncle's pearl fishery concession in the South Pacific. Upon hi

1933-05-25
In this action-drama, a railroad worker plys his trade at the straits of Malay. He begins a steamy a

1932-11-15
Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots fo

1932-09-14
Polo, a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals by driving a small b

1931-05-17
In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then

1932-07-25
In this war drama, a brave reporter tries to remain detached while covering the war in Shanghai. Whi

1931-05-01
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a

1931-01-31
During the war two friends love the same nurse. After the war one becomes a detective, the other a r

1930-08-20
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his
1921-11-27
Galen Albret (Noah Beery) is the factor, or manager, of an important trading post of the Hudson Bay

1930-07-16
In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and b

1927-10-21
In Spain, a band of gypsies poach the deer in a neighboring estate. The gypsy chief, Tser (Harold Tr

1929-05-13
A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower an

1922-06-25
With the help of Red Barton (Wade Boteler), Phil (Jack Holt) makes a spectacular escape from jail. H

1926-12-27
Nancy Raynor (Georgia Hale) is arriving from the East to see her dying uncle. Clint Beasley (Oland)
1921-11-13
Actress Marie Lamont (Phoebe Hunt) has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her d

1921-06-17
The Mask 1921 film
1926-04-04
Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. Hi

1926-06-14
Dare Rudd and Bate Fillmore have been enemies since early childhood, primarily over the affections o

1920-07-01
Leslie MacLeod (Kathryn Adams) comes to England from the U.S. so that she can settle financial affai

1932-02-25
A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.

1946-11-16
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's f

1934-06-15
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.

1949-08-30
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and

1936-06-26
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days befo

1935-12-27
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife a

1945-12-07
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat

1942-10-28
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World

1946-12-25
A special agent hunts a female outlaw out West.

1931-02-01
Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with

1937-09-09
Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

2003-09-30
An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."

1929-04-11
Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.

1928-03-24
A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match

1919-12-07
Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.

1929-09-14
Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Ni

1950-12-20
A whip-cracking federal marshal goes under cover as a masked bandit to ferret out a gold-bullion thi

1950-06-24
A sheriff's son is falsely accused of murder, and a friend determines to clear his name and find the

1935-01-14
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work b

1946-09-30
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.

1928-11-12
Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she

1950-12-15
Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to

1934-07-15
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

1934-04-10
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

1930-02-22
John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir

1949-08-15
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hun

1917-07-12
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home i

1922-07-10
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat

1922-04-16
Jimmy Gilley is engaged to Fanny Blaine. Jimmy would like to live in a more luxurious style, so he a

1917-12-03
In the office of Major Northfield, the quartermaster of the Pacific Coast, a leak has been discovere

1921-05-08
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by stag

1921-01-23
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels

1937-08-20
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be

1931-08-03
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject hi

1947-09-30
Outlaws are in control of the land so the town of Clayton City writes the governor for an honest mar

1926-03-20
A young woman inherits her father's large Texas ranch and plans to begin a cattle drive to Abilene,

1948-01-15
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search

1948-08-01
Young Joe is paralyzed as he is bucked by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. Angered, his father, Walt

1928-11-10
An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son J

1927-03-05
Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charle

1930-06-28
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho

1924-08-09
Wanderer of the Wasteland is a 1924 American color silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and

1920-08-08
Gail Ellis, a secretary, accompanies Professor Silas Griswold and his wife to China on an expedition

1933-07-10
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another

1931-09-29
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook.

1950-02-25
The Dalton gang has moved west taking new identities and Marshals Lash and Fuzzy are after them. The

1917-01-14
Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States,

1948-05-14
A disgraced veteran wanders the West alone until he decides to help a battered woman.

1914-11-02
When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack

1937-11-22
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his milli

1936-10-10
In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he b

1936-11-14
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island

1922-09-17
Three castaways all from differing levels of society reach and board a deserted schooner in mid-ocea

1949-12-17
A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into a de

1942-10-28
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a no

1924-04-27
A silent film Directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor.

1933-11-28
One of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as Kay Wa

1923-08-27
After losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexua

1921-02-01
A spoiled rich young woman overspends from her parents' savings and ruthlessly vamps on young men th

1946-07-10
Gabby doesn't want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's hors

1933-06-29
A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's

1935-04-01
A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides

1938-04-19
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing

1938-03-31
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief tr

1931-06-01
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxin
1941-09-20
A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponie

1923-01-28
Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person

1919-04-26
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, b

1921-02-01
The wife of sculptor Roger Heath is killed by a maniac because of Roger's madly jealous admirer Oliv

1948-05-24
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowin

1917-10-15
While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while wearing

1948-12-15
A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer.

1949-02-25
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortu

1925-09-13
Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Na

1916-01-30
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a rev

1926-02-22
Helen Salvia sets sail with her 4-year-old daughter for Panda, an isolated East African port, where

1928-06-23
A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through
1944-03-06
Feature version of the 1941 American serial film of the same name, made for export only, never shown

1931-08-20
In this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced older

1915-12-10
A dramatic one-act film that takes place in Mexico. Juanita, who lives on a dilapidated ranch, has t

1937-07-03
Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he

1935-04-05
Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believ

1918-02-25
A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger k

1935-05-18
After his divorced wife dies, Jim Burke takes their son who she had been raising and he hasn't seen

1923-09-30
A matchmaker sets out to have a rich woman marry the not-so-rich boy she loves, and tries to persuad

1924-01-06
Prima donna Rita Coventry charms Richard Parrish from his fiancée, Alice Meldrum. Tiring of Parrish,

1928-08-25
Judith Endicott, the daughter of a wealthy eastern banker, vamps Philip Randolph, an Arizonan, when

1919-03-10
Marie, a hotel maid, falls in love with millionaire's son Roger, but Roger cannot marry her because

1929-02-09
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a

1941-11-21
A murderous gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped the government's best engraver and is forcing him t

1916-05-29
Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Ma

1921-10-30
After the Show was adapted from Rita Weiman's story "The Stage Door." Lila Lee plays Eileen, a starr

1916-09-11
A chorus girl gains infamy after the suicide of her beau.

1936-08-01
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

1916-10-23
Although Kenneth Carmont and Esther Saunders, criminal Bert Saunders' sister, love each other, Esthe

1919-10-05
Jack Hearne, known as the Romany Rye, prefers living with the gypsies rather than claiming the right

1919-07-13
A young lady takes on a convict as her chauffeur, believing him to be a burglar. In reality, however

1920-11-07
Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she becam

1918-04-01
Marooned on a desert island, Dr. Robert Farlow and wealthy toxicologist Count Ito Onato both fall in
1918-05-06
Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab ch

1928-08-12
During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to
1935-07-05
This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some

1936-02-10
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an a

1932-06-25
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist det

1925-05-11
Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt

1923-04-22
Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste g

1920-10-24
During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old f

1934-11-10
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no p

1940-12-09
Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the cl
1916-04-08
Revised version of the 1916 film "His Majesty, Dick Turpin."

1916-08-20
A 20 part 2-reel Western film serial.

1927-11-26
This story of the British Silent Service operating on the coast of China finds Tom Fellows, captain

1926-01-18
Lee Purdy, the owner of a ranch on "Enchanted Hill," is subjected to repeated attacks by unknown ass

1922-05-14
Son of Colonel Haddington, Bob leads a posse against raiders in a settlement. During his absence, on

1940-06-06
George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens wh

1938-10-05
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an i

1926-09-27
A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die on