John Holland
Nacimiento : 1908-05-17, Fremont, Nebraska, USA
Muerte : 1993-05-21
Historia
John Holland (May 16, 1908 – May 21, 1993) was an American actor and singer.
John Holland was born Harold Boggess in Fremont, Nebraska. He adopted his grandfather's name John Holland as a stage name. He began acting in Hollywood films in 1937, and later appeared on numerous television series, including Hawaiian Eye, Wagon Train, and Perry Mason. His most notable film credits were My Fair Lady (1964), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967), and Chinatown (1974).
In addition to film and television, Holland acted in musical theater, such as the Broadway production of Peter Pan (1954), and in plays, such as the touring company of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He received positive reviews for his performance in a concert titled "The California Night of Music" in Los Angeles in September 1937. He often gave free concerts during visits to his parents in Alton, Illinois, accompanied by his father, organist Newton Boggess.
John Holland died on May 21, 1993 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles at age 85.
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Rafael / Father Damon
Lucifer acepta el reto mortal de los tres arcángeles sabiendo que su nuevo nacimiento iniciará un reino de terror. Renace en la forma de Andrew Williams quien, en su 18 cumpleaños, es consciente de que el diablo está dentro de él.
Song Publisher (uncredited)
La noche anterior a un atraco, Graham Dorsey (Charles Bronson), uno de los ladrones, sueña que va a salir mal, por lo que a la mañana siguiente provoca un accidente con su caballo para no ir al poblado donde está el banco. Los cuatro restantes de la banda aceptan que les espere en una casa solitaria donde vive una viuda. Dorsey se enamora inmediatamente de la viuda y entre ambos surge un extraño romance que tendrá que acabar cuando el resto de la banda regrese del atraco.
Regent (uncredited)
Comedia familiar de ambiente estudiantil en el que los protagonistas describen una fórmula similar al elixir mágico de Astérix. En ese momento los protagonistas se dedicarán a deshacer entuertos.
Farmer in the Valley
Los Ángeles, 1937. El detective Gittes, especializado en divorcios, recibe la visita de la esposa de Mulwray, el jefe del Servicio de Aguas de la ciudad, que sospecha que su marido la engaña. Al mismo tiempo, Gittes descubre que los agricultores acusan a Mulwray de corrupción por su negativa a construir un pantano que paliaría la sequía que sufren. Poco después, el escándalo salta a la prensa, pero la cosa se complica cuando una mujer se presenta en el despacho de Gittes con una sorprendente revelación.
Van Jarsdale
A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
Prof. John Coleman
At the end of WWII, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hiding place in the South American country of Mandoras, in order to revive the Third Reich at a later date. By the 1960s, the time has come, so a top scientist is kidnapped in order to help keep Hitler alive. This film is a re-edit of The Madmen of Mandoras released in theaters in 1963.
Matthews
Guiado por un manual de éxito, un ambicioso limpia ventanas progresará rápidamente en su carrera profesional.
Major Hamilton
A British girl is trapped on the island of Crete when the Germans invade it.
Mr. Courtland
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
Butler
Versión cinematográfica del mito de Pigmalión, inspirada en la obra teatral homónima del escritor irlandés G.B. Shaw. En una lluviosa noche de 1912, el excéntrico y snob lingüista Henry Higgins conoce a Eliza Doolittle, una harapienta y ordinaria vendedora de violetas. El vulgar lenguaje de la florista despierta tanto su interés que hace una arriesgada apuesta con su amigo, el coronel Pickering: se compromete a enseñarle a hablar correctamente el inglés y a hacerla pasar por una dama de la alta sociedad en un plazo de seis meses.
Antoine
Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters.
Prof. John Coleman
A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a machine. The Nazis plan to release a deadly gas destroying all life on the planet. To ensure their success they kidnap Professor Coleman the only man on the planet with the antidote to the poison gas.
En una base aérea de los Estados Unidos, el oficial al mando no ha conseguido superar una inspección y lo relevan. Su sustituto, el Coronel Cadwell, es un héroe de la guerra de Corea (1950-1953) que carece de experiencia para dirigir una gran unidad en permanente estado de alerta. La necesidad de hacer valer su autoridad le planteará graves problemas de relación con sus compañeros e incluso con su esposa.
Edward Mayhall
While investigating his wife's sudden death, a policeman becomes involved with shady doctors and black-market racketeers.
Arthur Murcott
L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter.
Black Bill
In this magical tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy sidekick Tinkerbell visit the nursery of Wendy, Michael and John Darling. With a sprinkling of pixie dust, Peter and his new friends fly out the nursery window and over London to Never-Never Land. The children experience many wonderful and exciting adventures with the Lost Boys, Tiger Lily's Indian tribe, and Peter's arch enemy the dastardly pirate Captain Hook.
District Attorney
A private detective (Willard Parker) falls for the girlfriend (Allison Hayes) of a racketeer whom he believes has targeted him for death.
Mayor Jonathan W. McKenzie
A cowboy escapes from jail with the help of his girlfriend, and goes after the men he believes are responsible for his brother being shot down by lawmen.
Norman Grant
Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Ames, the hotel's bitter, crippled proprietor, visiting lawyer David Hewson and his secretary, Beth -- is the culprit, even as murders continue to take place.
Fowler
Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in the luggage of the girls that come to work in his saloon. Border guards Kansas and Chito, along with Mexican Captain Trevinom suspect them and they are trying to find the guns.
Dr. Matthews
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.
Maj. Porter
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Roberts
Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
Quentin Morell
Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy.
Ballinger
Un funcionario del servicio de inteligencia estadounidense debe viajar hasta China. Una vez allí, su misión será tratar de evitar la ejecución de un grupo de rehenes norteamericanos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mr. Hudson (uncredited)
Una joven secretaria se enamora de su jefe, empleando los mismos trucos que utiliza él en sus negocios para hacerle caer en sus redes. No obstante, una vez casada, empieza a tener celos de la nueva secretaria que ha contratado su marido.
Paul Kenyon
This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, the investigator does not stop until the real culprit has been apprehended and justice is served.
Carl Hanneman
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
Best Man (uncredited)
Una mujer sospecha que su marido se interesa por otras, pero él sospecha lo mismo de ella. Por culpa de sus negocios, él tiene que cancelar siempre sus vacaciones de aniversario y dejar que su mujer se vaya sola. En una ocasión, para poder espiar a su marido, ella contrata a una cantante de cabaret (Doris Day) para que viaje a América del Sur en su lugar. Mientras tanto, su esposo contrata a un detective (Jack Carson) para vigilar a su esposa durante su viaje.
Henry Atherton
Una aspirante a actriz llamada Sally se las ve y se las desea con las tentaciones de la fama y de los hombre pudientes que aparecen alrededor. Confiará sus cuitas a su casquivana amiga Olive. Finalmente, Sally se sentira a tríada por Bill, un soldado que está pasando un fin de semana de permiso.
Fur Salesman
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
Willy Hitchcock
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
Wally Lundigan - Columnist
A socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a newspaper columnist, who wagered $5000 that she couldn't last six weeks.
Secretary
El pintor Tom Verney (Fred MacMurray) desea cumplir su sueño de irse a vivir a México. Pero necesita dinero, por lo que acepta el empleo de secretario de la ejecutiva de publicidad A. M. MacGregor (Rosalind Russell), una mujer de fuerte personalidad.
Paul Gordon
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Paul Barsac
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
Paul Darcey
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.
Guy Kisling
Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge. Two people who know the truth are killed and 'Duke' Is shot at. Despite some interference by Police-Sergeant Brent, and a dangerous automobile chase and 'Duke' and Phyllis finding themselves prisoners of the real murderers, the case is solved.
Henchman Hess
Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. Enemy spies attempt to steal, sabotage and discredit the inventions and founders of the company.
Grinson - Foreign Agent
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Mason
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
Sam Quigley
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police.
(uncredited)
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Reporter
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
Gus
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
Lieutenant
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
