Harold Holland

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]

Harold Holland

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
Harold Holland (right) in Where Lights Are Low

References
  1. "Harold Holland". BFI. Archived from the original on April 12, 2019.
  2. Edison, Thomas A. (1913). The Edison Kinetogram, Volume 8, Issue 3. Michigan: Thomas A. Edison Incorporated. p. 7.
  3. "The Moving Picture World". World Photographic Publishing Company. May 16, 1916 – via Google Books.
  4. "Harold Holland | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  5. Campbell, Mark (3 February 2012). Sherlock Holmes. Oldcastle Books. ISBN 9781842438169.
  6. "Sherlock Holmes (play 1899) - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia". www.arthur-conan-doyle.com. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  7. "True Values". Great War Theatre. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  8. D'Monte, Rebecca (2015). British Theatre and Performance 1900-1950. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-4081-6601-7.
  9. Hesse, Beatrix (August 2, 2015). The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century. Springer. ISBN 9781137463043.
  10. Nicoll, Allardyce (2009). English Drama, 1900-1930: The Beginnings of the Modern Period, Volume 2. Jones & Bartlett Learning. p. 204. ISBN 9780521129473.
  11. Barker, Clive; Gale, Maggie B. (2000). British Theatre Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN 9780521624077.
  12. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. 1971.
  13. Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1969). Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series: Maps and atlases. U.S. Library of Congress, Copyright Office.
  14. Katchmer, George A. (2015). A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses. McFarland. p. 5. ISBN 9781476609058.
  15. American Film Institute (1997). Gevinson, Alan (ed.). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520209640.
  16. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  17. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  18. Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740629 – via Google Books.
  19. "Harold Holland影视作品". mm52 (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  20. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  21. "The Spenders, 1921". silenthollywood.com. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  22. 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.
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