Tim Holt

Born: February 5, 1919, Beverly Hills, California
Died: February 15, 1973 (age 54), Shawnee, Oklahoma

Tim Holt was an film actor. 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.

What do you know about Tim Holt? Try this quick quiz.

1. As a youngster, Tim appeared in a couple of his father’s silent Westerns. However, in 1948, father and son star in a 1948 RKO Pictures film. What is the movies title?

2. In 1940, Tim stars, replacing George O’Brien, in a series of Westerns. What is the name of the movie?

3. Over his career, this Western star had supporting roles in many major films. One if the 1939 Stagecoach. Who is his character?

• Ringo Kid
• Hondo Lane
• Lt. Blanchard

4. In 1946, after coming back from active duty during World War Two, Tim gets a role in John Ford’s My Darling Clementine. Who is the character Tim plays?

• Virgil Earp
• Morgan Earp
• Wyatt Earp

5. One of his most noted roles is in the classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Who is NOT in the movie’s cast?

• Humphrey Bogart
• Tim Holt
• John Wayne

6. In this 1947 release, Tim is the hero and Richard Powers plays the bad guy. Richard Powers is the new stage name of Tom Keene. What is the movie’s title?

7. Dave Saunders and his sidekick Chito, cowhands looking for work, arrive in Sundown Valley, Wyoming just in time to stop sheep ranch foreman Jess Rawlins from lynching cattleman Tug Caldwell. Rawlins seems set on starting a range war; but why? Who plays Chito Rafferty?

• Richard Martin
• Bill Kennedy
• Marvin Jones

8. In his last Western, recent parolee John Carver returns to town to collect his hidden stolen money and hires stagecoach line owners Tim Holt and Chito Rafferty to take him to Mexico. The pair soon find they may have taken on more than they bargained for as it seems everyone Carver ever knew is out for the money and will stop at nothing to get it. What was this 1952 Western?

9. 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.

• True or False?

10. Where is Tim Holt buried?

• Memory Lane Cemetery in Harrah, Oklahoma
• Cremated, Ashes scattered over Hollywood, California
• Pacific View Memorial Park Cemetery, Corona del Mar, California

Answers

1. Arizona Rangers
2. Wagon Train
3. Lt. Blanchard
4. Virgil Earp
5. John Wayne
6. Under the Tonto Rim
7. Richard Martin
8. Desert Passage
9. True
10. Memory Lane Cemetery in Harrah, Oklahoma
    Plot: Section 4, 14th row west of northeast corner. 2nd grave south.