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Tim Holt (February 5, 1919 - February 15, 1973)
was an U.S.|American film actor.

Born Charles John Holt III in Beverly Hills,
California, he was the son of actor Jack Holt and
his wife, Margaret Woods. He was sent to study at
Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana from
which he graduated in 1936 then immediately went
to work in the Hollywood film business.

After five minor roles, in 1938, at the age of
nineteen, Holt had a major role under star Harry
Carey in The Law West of Tombstone. It would be
the first of the many Western films he would make
during the 1940s. At the same time, his sister,
Jennifer Holt, would also become a leading star in
the Western film genre.

Tim Holt had one of the leading roles in the Orson
Welles 1942 drama, The Magnificent Ambersons but
the following year he became a decorated combat
veteran of World War II, flying in the Pacific
theatre with the U.S. Army Air Force as a B-29
bombardier. Tim Holt would return to filming after
the war, appearing as "Virgil Earp" to Henry
Fonda|Henry Fonda's, "Wyatt Earp" in director John
Ford|John Ford's Western, My Darling Clementine.

Holt would next be cast in the role that he is
probably most remembered for and a film where his
father appeared in a small part. Tim Holt
portrayed "Bob Curtin" next to the Humphrey Bogart
character of "Fred C. Dobbs" in John Huston|John
Huston's classic, The Treasure of the Sierra
Madre. Made in 1946, Holt did another four Western
films before "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
would be released in 1948. Tim Holt made two dozen
more Western films until 1952 when the genre's
popularity waned. He would be absent from the
screen for five years until starring in a less
than successful horror film in 1957 then appeared
in only two more uninspiring motion pictures
during the next fourteen years.

In 1973, at the age of fity-four, Tim Holt died
from cancer in Shawnee, Oklahoma where he had been
managing a radio station. He was interred in the
Memory Lane Cemetery in Harrah, Oklahoma.

In 1991, Tim Holt was inducted posthumously into
the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.