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Holbrook Blinn

Holbrook Blinn

Born: 1872-01-23 • San Francisco, California, USA

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
The Telephone Girl poster
The Telephone Girl
1927 • Jim Blake
The Masked Woman poster
The Masked Woman
1927 • Baron Tolento
The New Commandment poster
The New Commandment
1925 • William Morrow
Zander the Great poster
Zander the Great
1925 • Juan Fernández
Janice Meredith poster
Janice Meredith
1924 • Lord Clowes
Yolanda poster
Yolanda
1924 • King Louis XI of France
The Bad Man poster
The Bad Man
1923 • Pancho Lopez
Rosita poster
Rosita
1923 • The King
The Madonna of the Slums poster
The Madonna of the Slums
1919
The Seventh Sin poster
The Seventh Sin
1917 • Eugene D'Arcy
The Empress poster
The Empress
1917 • Eric
Seven Deadly Sins: Pride poster
Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
1917
The Hidden Scar poster
The Hidden Scar
1916 • Stuart Doane
Husband and Wife poster
Husband and Wife
1916 • Richard Baker
The Weakness of Man poster
The Weakness of Man
1916 • David Spencer
The Unpardonable Sin poster
The Unpardonable Sin
1916 • Walter Norman
The Ballet Girl poster
The Ballet Girl
1916 • Zachary Trewehella
Life's Whirlpool poster
Life's Whirlpool
1916 • McTeague
No Image
The Ivory Snuff Box
1915 • Richard Duvall
The Boss poster
The Boss
1915 • Michael R. Regan