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An American actor born in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, on February 5, 1919. Tim Holt is the son of silent film cowboy star Jack Holt. He grew up on his father's farm in Fresno, where he learned to ride horses, He appeared in one of his father's films, The Vanishing Pioneer (1928), when he was 9 years old. In 1939, he signed on with RKO to star in a series of Western films. He showed great comedic abilities in films such as Swiss Family Robinson (1940) and Back Street (1941) and played a dramatic role in Orson Welles' masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), but he returned to Western films. However, the outbreak of WWII interrupted his career, as he served in the Air Force, after which he resumed his acting career, participating in B-movies. Tim continued to present Western films until he decided to retire after his film Desert Passage (1952), then he worked as a director of a radio station in Oklahoma. Tim Holt's most notable work includes The Rookie Cop (1939), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). He died on February 15, 1973, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, of bone cancer.
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