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Holbrook Blinn

Holbrook Blinn

Acting1872San Francisco, California, USA

Biography

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Holbrook Blinn (January 23, 1872 – June 24, 1928) was an American stage and film actor.

Blinn was born in San Francisco. His father was Charles H. Blinn, a Civil War veteran and his mother Nellie Hollbrook was an actress. He appeared on the legitimate stage as a child, and played throughout the United States and in London. He appeared in silent films, and was the director of popular one-act plays at New York's Princess Theatre. In 1900, he appeared in London in Ib and Little Christina. His Broadway stage successes include The Duchess of Dantzic (1903, as Napoleon), Salvation Nell (1908) in a breakout performance as the brutish husband of Mrs. Fiske, Within the Law (1912), Molière (1919), A Woman of No Importance (1916), The Lady of the Camellias (1917), and Getting Together (1918). Some of his finest silent screen accomplishments are in McTeague (1916), The Bad Man (1923), Rosita (1923), Yolanda (1924), and Janice Meredith (1924), the latter two films both starring Marion Davies.

Blinn died from complications of a fall off his horse in 1928.

Acting History

1927
The Masked Woman
as Baron Tolento
The Telephone Girl
as Jim Blake
1925
Zander the Great
as Juan Fernández
The New Commandment
as William Morrow
1924
Yolanda
as King Louis XI of France
Janice Meredith
as Lord Clowes
1923
Rosita
as The King
The Bad Man
as Pancho Lopez
1916
The Hidden Scar
as Stuart Doane
The Weakness of Man
as David Spencer
Life's Whirlpool
as McTeague
The Unpardonable Sin
as Walter Norman
Husband and Wife
as Richard Baker
The Ballet Girl
as Zachary Trewehella
1915
The Boss
as Michael R. Regan
The Ivory Snuff Box
as Richard Duvall

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1/23/1872
Day of Death
6/24/1928
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA