Charles John Holt Jr. (May 31, 1888 â€" January 18, 1951) was an
American motion picture actor in both silent and sound movies,
particularly Westerns.Born in 1888 in the Fordham section of The
Bronx, New York, the son of an Episcopal priest at St. James Church.
When in Manhattan, he attended Trinity School. He was accepted into
the Virginia Military Institute in 1909, but expelled for misbehavior
in his second semester there.Following Holt's father's death, the
family moved to New York City, where Jack, his mother, and brother
Marshall lived with his married sister, Frances.Holt worked at various
jobs including construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad's tunnel
under the Hudson River and being a "surveyor, laborer, prospector,
trapper, and stagecoach driver, among many other jobs" during an
almost six-year stay in Alaska.
American motion picture actor in both silent and sound movies,
particularly Westerns.Born in 1888 in the Fordham section of The
Bronx, New York, the son of an Episcopal priest at St. James Church.
When in Manhattan, he attended Trinity School. He was accepted into
the Virginia Military Institute in 1909, but expelled for misbehavior
in his second semester there.Following Holt's father's death, the
family moved to New York City, where Jack, his mother, and brother
Marshall lived with his married sister, Frances.Holt worked at various
jobs including construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad's tunnel
under the Hudson River and being a "surveyor, laborer, prospector,
trapper, and stagecoach driver, among many other jobs" during an
almost six-year stay in Alaska.
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