Holbrook Blinn
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
Zander the Great
as Juan Fernández 1925
Husband and Wife
as Richard Baker 1916
Life's Whirlpool
as McTeague 1916
Janice Meredith
as Lord Clowes 1924
Yolanda
as King Louis XI of France 1924
The Madonna of the Slums
1919
The Boss
as Michael R. Regan 1915
The New Commandment
as William Morrow 1925
The Ballet Girl
as Zachary Trewehella 1916
Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
1917
The Seventh Sin
as Eugene D'Arcy 1917
The Ivory Snuff Box
as Richard Duvall 1915
The Hidden Scar
as Stuart Doane 1916
The Weakness of Man
as David Spencer 1916
The Unpardonable Sin
as Walter Norman 1916
The Masked Woman
as Baron Tolento 1927