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.
Movie | The Masked Woman | Baron Tolento | 1927-01-16 |
Movie | The Telephone Girl | Jim Blake | 1927-03-26 |
Movie | Zander the Great | Juan Fernández | 1925-05-01 |
Movie | The New Commandment | William Morrow | 1925-11-01 |
Movie | Yolanda | King Louis XI of France | 1924-09-15 |
Movie | Janice Meredith | Lord Clowes | 1924-12-08 |
Movie | Rosita | The King | 1923-09-03 |
Movie | Seven Deadly Sins: Pride | 1917-02-05 | |
Movie | The Seventh Sin | Eugene D'Arcy | 1917-03-17 |
Movie | The Empress | Eric | 1917-03-11 |
Movie | The Ballet Girl | Zachary Trewehella | 1916-01-24 |
Movie | Life's Whirlpool | McTeague | 1916-01-10 |
Movie | The Unpardonable Sin | Walter Norman | 1916-03-13 |
Movie | The Weakness of Man | David Spencer | 1916-07-24 |
Movie | The Hidden Scar | Stuart Doane | 1916-10-15 |
Movie | Husband and Wife | Richard Baker | 1916-08-28 |