Holbrook Blinn

Holbrook Blinn was born on Jan 23, 1872 in USA. Holbrook Blinn's big-screen debut came with The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England directed by Maurice Tourneur in 1914, strarring Undetermined Secondary Role (unconfirmed, uncredited). Holbrook Blinn is known for Yolanda directed by Robert G. Vignola, Marion Davies stars as Princess Mary and Lyn Harding as Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. The upcoming new movie Holbrook Blinn plays is The Telephone Girl which will be released on Mar 26, 1927.

American stage actor and director who made numerous silent film appearances. Blinn was born and raised in San Francisco and attended nearby Stanford University. But his stage career had begun years before, when he made his acting debut at age six. Following his education, he resumed acting, eventually becoming a prominent figure on Broadway. He directed many of the plays he appeared in. In 1914, he made his first film and kept busy on screen and on stage for the remainder of his life. During the volatile strike of stage actors in 1919 that led to the formation of the actors' union, Actors Equity, Blinn was one of a minority of actors who sided with the opposition, the producers. He served as president of the Actors Fidelity League, which unsuccessfully fought the formation of the actors' union. During a vacation at Journey's End, his country home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, Blinn was thrown from a horse. He appeared to be recuperating well, but the injury to his arm became infected and led to respiratory failure. He died on 24 June 1928 at 56.