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
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- Riches and Rogues (1913),[18] a British and Colonial Kinematograph Company film[1]
- The Lucky Vest (1914)[2]
- Shanghaied (1915)[3]
- The Bank (1915)[3]
- Get the Boy (1916)[19]
- The House of Lies (1916)[20]
- Daughter Angele (1918)[20]
- The Midnight Patrol (1918)[20]
- Tony America (1918)[20]
- Silk Hosiery (1920)[20]
- Where Lights Are Low (1921)[20]
- Black Roses (1921)[1]
- The Spenders (1921; as Harry Holland)[21]
- The Man Trackers (1921)[20]
- Come on Over (1922)[1]
- Chalk Marks (1924)[1]
- The Call of the Klondike (1926)[22]
References
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- ^ a b Edison, Thomas A. (1913). The Edison Kinetogram, Volume 8, Issue 3. Michigan: Thomas A. Edison Incorporated. p. 7.
- ^ a b c "The Moving Picture World". World Photographic Publishing Company. May 16, 1916 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Harold Holland | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ^ Campbell, Mark (3 February 2012). Sherlock Holmes. Oldcastle Books. ISBN 9781842438169.
- ^ "Sherlock Holmes (play 1899) - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia". www.arthur-conan-doyle.com. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Harold Holland影视作品". mm52 (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ^ a b c d e f g "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ^ "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.