
Holbrook Blinn
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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.
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Credits
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The Telephone Girl 1927Jim Blake★ NR
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The Masked Woman 1927Baron Tolento★ NR
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The New Commandment 1925William Morrow★ NR
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Zander the Great 1925Juan Fernández★ 5.5
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Janice Meredith 1924Lord Clowes★ 5
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Yolanda 1924King Louis XI of France★ 6
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Rosita 1923The King★ 6.5
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★ NR
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The Seventh Sin 1917Eugene D'Arcy★ NR
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The Empress 1917Eric★ NR
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★ NR
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The Hidden Scar 1916Stuart Doane★ NR
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Husband and Wife 1916Richard Baker★ 1
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The Weakness of Man 1916David Spencer★ NR
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The Unpardonable Sin 1916Walter Norman★ NR
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The Ballet Girl 1916Zachary Trewehella★ NR
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Life's Whirlpool 1916McTeague★ 6
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The Ivory Snuff Box 1915Richard Duvall★ NR
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The Boss 1915Michael R. Regan★ NR