Harold Holland (May 12, 1885 – September 27, 1974) was a British theatre and

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...

actor and playwright. He was born in Bloomsbury, London. He played Dr. Rogers in the 1913 film '' Riches and Rogues'', and took the lead role of Dr. Thomas "Tom" Flynn in the 1914 comedy '' The Lucky Vest''. After having worked on Charlie Chaplin films including ''

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'' and '' The Bank'' in 1915, he was hired by the Morosco Photoplay Company in 1916 as it expanded. 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''. He also performed as the title character in the UK tour of ''Sherlock Holmes'' in 1919. 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, and 1927 play ''The Big Drum'', an early self-referential play set in a fictional theatre. Other works written by Holland include ''BW'' and ''Break the Sword''. His later film career, in the

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, included work in the early silent Westerns, for which he was called "a silent star", and noted roles in various films dealing with foreign ethnicity, including two roles as Irish policemen who prevent organized crime by Chinese gangs. He died in

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in 1974.

Filmography

*'' Riches and Rogues'' (1913), a

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film *'' The Lucky Vest'' (1914) *''

'' (1915) * ''The Bank'' (1915) *'' Get the Boy'' (1916) *'' The House of Lies'' (1916) *''

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'' (1918) *''

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'' (1918) *'' Tony America'' (1918) *'' Silk Hosiery'' (1920) *'' Where Lights Are Low'' (1921) *'' Black Roses'' (1921) *''

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'' (1921; as Harry Holland) *''

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'' (1921) *''

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'' (1922) *''

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'' (1924) *'' The Call of the Klondike'' (1926)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holland, Harold 1885 births 1974 deaths English male silent film actors People from Bloomsbury