David Holt
Also Known As: David Jack Holt
Biography: David Jack Holt (August 14, 1927 – November 15, 2003) was an American actor initially groomed at the age of seven to be the male Shirley Temple. After several supporting roles as a juvenile actor in films during the 1930s–1940s, he experienced family stress and left acting by the time he was 25. He subsequently had success as a songwriter, before his death in 2003 at the age of 76. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 14, 1927
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 15, 2003
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Hot Cargo
Overview: Two discharged service men go to the redwood country in northern California to visit the family of a buddy killed in the war. There, they find the family's trucking business is being threatened by a rival who will stop at nothing to ruin their business. They take up the fight against the crooks.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-28
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Courage of Lassie
Overview: Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicious. And even though he finds his way back home, he may be condemned as a killer.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-08
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Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Overview: A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-16
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Second Chance
Overview: A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years of their marriage.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-06
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Combat Squad
Overview: A tough sergeant helps a raw recruit find courage under fire during the Korean War.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-01
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It's a Great Life
Overview: Desperate for work, Johnny Barclay leaves Ma and Grandpop to join the newly formed Civilian Conversation Corps. On the way he meets cynical young hobo Roscoe "Rockie" Johnson, and, although Rockie believes that hopping freight trains is a great life, Johnny convinces him to join the Corps.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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Forgotten Babies
Overview: While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-11
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You Belong to Me
Overview: When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unreliable in relationships, but he tells her to call him whenever she needs help. While working in a beer garden, Florette meets Hap Stanley, an avaricious performer who marries her to get the rights to perform her show routine. Hap dislikes Jimmy and eventually convinces Florette to send him away to school. Both Jimmy and Florette are broken-up over being apart, but Jimmy pretends it is what he wants so Florette can be happy with Hap.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-08
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
Overview: Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device that can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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Age of Indiscretion
Overview: A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-10
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Beau Geste
Overview: When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-24
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Remember the Day
Overview: Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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The Big Broadcast of 1937
Overview: The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-05
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Sky Liner
Overview: Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Overview: Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-11
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Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
Overview: Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-13
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Overview: In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-18
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The Human Comedy
Overview: Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-02
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Men Without Names
Overview: A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-29
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The Star Reporter in Hollywood
Overview: Part of Paramount Headliner: Hollywood Star Reporter series
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-22
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Shock
Overview: Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-19
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Destroyer
Overview: Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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Top Man
Overview: In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-17
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The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Overview: Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Reckless Age
Overview: Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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Military Academy
Overview: Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father. Tommy is assigned to share a room with Dick Hill, an egotistical school athlete, and Sandy Blake, a pampered rich boy. Even though all three boys are potentially good lads, each has a handicap that he must overcome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-06
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Wild Weed
Overview: A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-20
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The Cheaters
Overview: An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-15
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Hero for a Day
Overview: When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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Straight from the Shoulder
Overview: A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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Stand Up and Cheer!
Overview: President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
Genres: Comedy Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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