Taylor Holmes
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Taylor Holmes, 1878 – 1959) was an actor who appeared in over 100 Broadway plays in his five-decade career.
Despite this, he is perhaps best known for his screen performances, which began in silent films in 1917.
In George K. Spoor's 1918 film A Pair of Sixes, one of his first acting roles is.
Early life
Holmes was born in Newark, New Jersey, on May 16, 1878.
Personal life
Holmes married actress Edna Phillips and was the father of actors Phillips Holmes, Madeleine Taylor Holmes, and Ralph Holmes.
Sleeping Beauty Holmes died on September 30, 1959, at the age of 81.
Career
In February 1900, he made his Broadway debut in the controversial play Sapho, which was briefly suspended for indecency. In a Hamlet revival with E. H. Sothern, Holmes performed Rosencrantz and toured with Robert Edeson. He appeared in stage plays including The Commuters, The Music Master, and His Majesty Bunker Bean.
Effort Edgar's Courtship and Fools for Luck were among the early film appearances.
He was more on film than on stage by the 1940s, and on stage more than ever. Holmes played a number of iconic roles, including the gullible millionaire conned in Nightmare Alley (1947), a dedicated prosecutor in Kiss of Death (1947) and Gavery, a rebel disbarred lawyer in Act of Violence (1949). In the 1954 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, he is also known for his role as Bishop of Avranches, who vehemently denounces Pierre Cauchon in the Ingrid Bergman Joan of Arc (1948) ("I don't want to marry your son for his money, I want to marry him for your money." "Because of King Stefan's animated film Sleeping Beauty (1959), Holmes' last credit screen role in which he replaced Hans Conried, who was the model reference for Stefan and had only few additional dialogues. Ebenezer Scrooge appeared in what is largely bad (and cheaply made) half-hour television adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which first telecast in 1949. As King Stefan, his last film was Sleeping Beauty (1959).