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British actor and playwright
Harold Holland
Harold Holland (May 12, 1885 – September 27, 1974) was a British theatre and
silent film actor and
playwright . He was born in
Bloomsbury, London .
[1] He played Dr. Rogers in the 1913 film
Riches and Rogues ,
[1] and took the lead role of Dr. Thomas "Tom" Flynn in the 1914 comedy
The Lucky Vest .
[2] After having worked on
Charlie Chaplin films including
Shanghaied and
The Bank in 1915, he was hired by the
Morosco Photoplay Company in 1916 as it expanded.
[3]
Before and after working in silent films, Holland had a theatre career in the United Kingdom. His West End roles include Bella Donna , One-Act Plays , and Treasure Island .
[4] He also performed as
the title character in the UK tour of Sherlock Holmes in 1919.
[5]
[6] As a playwright, he wrote the 1918 war play True Values , a propaganda piece encouraging women at home to work and invest in the war,
[7]
[8] and 1927 play The Big Drum , an early self-referential play set in a fictional theatre.
[9]
[10]
[11] Other works written by Holland include BW
[12] and Break the Sword .
[13]
His later film career, in the
United States , included work in the early silent Westerns, for which he was called "a silent star",
[14] and noted roles in various films dealing with foreign ethnicity, including two roles as Irish policemen who prevent organized crime by Chinese gangs.
[15]
[16]
[17]
He died in
Los Angeles in 1974.
[1]
Filmography
Harold Holland (right) in
Where Lights Are Low
References
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"Harold Holland" . BFI . Archived from
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b Edison, Thomas A. (1913).
The Edison Kinetogram, Volume 8, Issue 3 . Michigan: Thomas A. Edison Incorporated. p. 7.
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"The Moving Picture World" . World Photographic Publishing Company. May 16, 1916 – via Google Books.
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"Harold Holland | Theatricalia" . theatricalia.com . Retrieved 2020-03-17 .
^ Campbell, Mark (3 February 2012).
Sherlock Holmes . Oldcastle Books.
ISBN
9781842438169 .
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"Sherlock Holmes (play 1899) - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia" . www.arthur-conan-doyle.com . Retrieved 2020-03-17 .
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"True Values" . Great War Theatre . Retrieved 2020-03-17 .
^ D'Monte, Rebecca (2015).
British Theatre and Performance 1900-1950 . Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 73.
ISBN
978-1-4081-6601-7 .
^ Hesse, Beatrix (August 2, 2015).
The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century . Springer.
ISBN
9781137463043 .
^ Nicoll, Allardyce (2009).
English Drama, 1900-1930: The Beginnings of the Modern Period, Volume 2 . Jones & Bartlett Learning. p. 204.
ISBN
9780521129473 .
^ Barker, Clive; Gale, Maggie B. (2000).
British Theatre Between the Wars, 1918-1939 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 50–51.
ISBN
9780521624077 .
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Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series . 1971.
^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1969).
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series: Maps and atlases . U.S. Library of Congress, Copyright Office.
^ Katchmer, George A. (2015).
A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses . McFarland. p. 5.
ISBN
9781476609058 .
^ American Film Institute (1997). Gevinson, Alan (ed.).
Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960 . University of California Press.
ISBN
9780520209640 .
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"AFI|Catalog" . catalog.afi.com . Retrieved 2020-03-17 .
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"AFI|Catalog" . catalog.afi.com . Retrieved 2020-03-17 .
^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016).
British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film . Routledge.
ISBN
9781317740629 – via Google Books.
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"Harold Holland影视作品" . mm52 (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved 2020-03-17 .
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"AFI|Catalog" . catalog.afi.com . Retrieved 2020-03-17 .
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"The Spenders, 1921" . silenthollywood.com . Retrieved 2020-03-17 .
^ Institute, American Film (12 April 1997).
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States . University of California Press.
ISBN
9780520209695 – via Google Books.