Occupation Actor Years active 1897–1927 | Name Holbrook Blinn Role Film actor | |
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Born January 23, 1872 ( 1872-01-23 ) San Francisco, California, U.S. Died June 24, 1928, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, United States Parents Charles H. Blinn, Nellie Hollbrook Movies Rosita, Janice Meredith, The Wishing Ring: An I, The Bad Man, McTeague Similar People Ernst Lubitsch, Mitchell Leisen, Maurice Tourneur, Edward Carewe, Herbert Brenon | ||
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Holbrook Blinn (January 23, 1872 – June 24, 1928) was an American stage and film actor.
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Holbrook blinn
Biography
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.
Death
Blinn died from complications of a fall off his horse near Journey's End, his Croton-on-Hudson, New York home, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.