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Taylor Holmes (May 16, 1878 – September 30, 1959) was an American actor who appeared in over 100 Broadway plays in his five-decade career. However, he is probably best remembered for his screen performances, which he began in silent films in 1917.




Early life


Holmes was born on May 16, 1878, in Newark, New Jersey.




Career






= Stage

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He made his Broadway debut in February 1900 in the controversial play Sapho, which was briefly closed for indecency. Holmes played Rosencrantz with E. H. Sothern in a production of Hamlet and toured with Robert Edeson. He appeared in stage hits such as The Commuters, The Music Master, and His Majesty Bunker Bean.




= Film

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Early film appearances included Efficiency Edgar's Courtship and Fools for Luck. One of his first starring roles was in A Pair of Sixes (1918).
By the 1940s, he was working more on film than on stage. Holmes played a number of memorable roles, particularly in film noir, including the gullible millionaire conned in Nightmare Alley (1947), a shifty lawyer in Kiss of Death (1947), and as Gavery, a reptilian disbarred lawyer in Act of Violence (1949). He is also recognized for playing the Bishop of Avranches, who fiercely denounces Pierre Cauchon in the Ingrid Bergman Joan of Arc (1948), Marilyn Monroe's potential father-in-law in the 1953 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ("I don't want to marry your son for his money, I want to marry him for your money!"), and the voice of King Stefan in the final cut of Disney's animated feature Sleeping Beauty (1959), Holmes' last credited screen role. He also played Ebenezer Scrooge in a low-budget half-hour television version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, first telecast in 1949.




Personal life


Holmes was married to actress Edna Phillips and was the father of actors Phillips Holmes, Madeleine Taylor Holmes, and Ralph Holmes.
Eight months after the release of Sleeping Beauty, Holmes died on September 30, 1959, at the age of 81.




Legacy


Holmes has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His interment was in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery.




Partial filmography


Silent

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship (1917) (short) as Edgar Bumpus
Fools for Luck (1917) as Philander Jepson
Two-Bit Seats (1917) as Jimmy Mason
The Small Town Guy (1917) as Ernest Gledhill
Uneasy Money (1918) as Lord Dawlish
Ruggles of Red Gap (1918) as Marmaduke Ruggles
A Pair of Sixes (1918) as T. Boggs Johns
It's a Bear (1919) as Orlando Wintrhop
A Regular Fellow (1919) (*George Eastman preserved) as Dalion Pemberton
Taxi (1919) as Robert Hervey Randolph
Upside Down (1919) as Archibald Pim
Three Black Eyes (1919) as Larry Van Cortlandt
Nothing But the Truth (1920) as Robert Bennett
The Very Idea (1920) as Gilbert Goodhue
Nothing but Lies (1920) as George Cross
Twenty Dollars a Week (1924) as William Hart
Her Market Value (1925) as Courtney Brooks
The Crimson Runner (1925) as Bobo (valet)
The Verdict (1925) as Valet
Borrowed Finery (1925) as Billy
One Hour of Love (1927) as Joe Monahan
Should a Mason Tell? (1927) (short) as Henry
Their Second Honeymoon (1927) (short) as Henry
King Harold (1927) (short) as Henry
Sound




References






External links



Taylor Holmes at IMDb
Taylor Holmes at the Internet Broadway Database
Taylor Holmes at Find a Grave
Taylor Holmes portrait section NY Public Library Billy Rose Collection

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