Holbrook Blinn
Born: 1872-01-23 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 1928-06-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia 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.
Filmography
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
1917
- The Empress as Eric
- The Seventh Sin as Eugene D'Arcy
- Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
1916
- The Weakness of Man as David Spencer
- The Hidden Scar as Stuart Doane
- The Ballet Girl as Zachary Trewehella
- Husband and Wife as Richard Baker
- The Unpardonable Sin as Walter Norman
- Life's Whirlpool as McTeague
1915
- The Boss as Michael R. Regan
- The Ivory Snuff Box as Richard Duvall