
Jennifer Holt
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1920-11-10
Day of Death
1997-09-21 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Hollywood, California, USA
Jennifer Holt
Biography
From Wikipedia
Born Elizabeth Marshall Holt in Hollywood, California to actor Jack Holt and his wife, Margaret Woods. She and her brother Tim would both have careers in acting.
She made her film debut using the stage name "Jacqueline Holt" in a 1941 western starring Hopalong Cassidy and went on to make forty-seven films during the 1940s. All but eight of her roles were in western films in which she appeared opposite cowboy stars such as Lash LaRue, Tex Ritter and Johnny Mack Brown.
Holt made her final film in 1949 then in 1950 co-hosted a television show called Panhandle Pete and Jennifer which ran for one season. During the remainder of the 1950s she made occasional guest appearances on television western series such as The Gabby Hayes Show and Tales of Wells Fargo starring Dale Robertson. Although the popularity of western films had faded by the mid-1950s, during the 1970s western film festivals became popular with fans of the genre and she occasionally participated as a guest.
Jennifer Holt was married several times, living for a while in Mexico and was in Dorset in England at the time of her death in 1997.
Jennifer made a batch of westerns in the 1940s, primarily at Universal and PRC as the heroine to Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Rod Cameron, Buster Crabbe, Eddie Dean and Lash LaRue. Her first western was the Hopalong Cassidy STICK TO YOUR GUNS (Paramount, 1941). She also played the female lead in a couple of cliffhangers, ADVENTURES OF THE FLYING CADETS (Universal, 1943) and HOP HARRIGAN (Columbia, 1946).
THE HAWK OF POWDER RIVER (Eagle-Lion/PRC, 1948) was Holt's favorite western role, as she portrayed the masked leader of a band of outlaws. She and most of her gang are gunned down by singing cowboy Eddie Dean in the film-ending shootout.
Holt had several marriages, lived in the United States and Mexico, and resided in England at the time or her death in 1997. One of her marriages was to movie actor William Bakewell (1908-1993) whom she starred with in the HOP HARRIGAN chapter play. Bakewell may be best remembered as "Major Tobias Norton" in the 1950s Disney Fess Parker/Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier TV show.
Even though her father Jack and brother Tim made scores of westerns and outdoorsy type films, Jennifer was never in any of their movies. And despite many reports throughout the years, an actor named David Holt (1927-2003) was NOT the brother of Jennifer and Tim Holt nor the son of Jack Holt.
In the late 1940s - early 1950s, Jennifer hosted/participated in several television programs that originated in Chicago. One was her portrayal of "Aunt Judy" to the puppet "Uncle Mistletoe" in the 15 minute THE ADVENTURES OF UNCLE MISTLETOE which was broadcast locally and over ABC. Chicago department store Marshall Fields did this program in response to competitor Montgomery Ward's Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. After a couple years, Jennifer exited Mistletoe and did another children's program, PANHANDLE PETE AND JENNIFER, which originated from NBC in Chicago. That 15 minute series ran from 1950 - 1951.
Known For
Acting
(1997)
Beverly Hills Family Robinson
as Production Assistant
(1948)
The Hawk of Powder River
as Vivian Chambers
(1948)
The Tioga Kid
as Jenny Morgan
(1948)
Range Renegades
as Belle Morgan
(1948)
Tornado Range
as Mary King
(1947)
Stage to Mesa City
as Margie Watson
(1947)
Over the Santa Fe Trail
as Carolyn
(1947)
Pioneer Justice
as Betty Walters
(1947)
The Fighting Vigilantes
as Abby Jackson
(1947)
Ghost Town Renegades
as Diane Trent
(1947)
Buffalo Bill Rides Again
as Dale Harrington
(1947)
Trail of the Mounties
as Kathie McBain
(1947)
Shadow Valley
as Mary Ann Jarvis
(1947)
Where the North Begins
as Mary Rockwell
(1946)
Moon Over Montana
as Gwynn Randal
(1946)
Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
as Gail Nolan
(1946)
Trigger Fingers
as Jane Caldwell
(1945)
Song of Old Wyoming
as Vicky Conway
(1945)
Renegades of the Rio Grande
as Dolores Salezar
(1945)
The Navajo Trail
as Mary Trevor
(1945)
The Lost Trail
as Jane Burns
(1945)
Under Western Skies
as Charity
(1945)
Gun Smoke
as Jane Condon
(1945)
Beyond the Pecos
as Ellen Tanner
(1944)
Outlaw Trail
as Alice Thornton
(1944)
Oklahoma Raiders
as Donna Ross, aka El Vengador
(1944)
Guns of the Law
as Lillian Wilkins
(1944)
Riders of the Santa Fe
as Carla Anderson
(1944)
Marshal of Gunsmoke
as Ellen Carey
(1943)
The Lone Star Trail
as Joan Winters
(1943)
Raiders of San Joaquin
as Jane Carter
(1943)
Raiders of Sunset Pass
as Betty Matthews
(1943)
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
as Andre Mason
(1943)
Cheyenne Roundup
as Ellen Randall
(1943)
Hi, Buddy
as Miss Russell
(1943)
Frontier Law
as Lois Rodgers
(1943)
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
as Kay Randolph
(1943)
Cowboy in Manhattan
as Mitzi
(1942)
Deep in the Heart of Texas
as Nan Taylor
(1942)
Private Buckaroo
as Joyce Mason
(1942)
The Silver Bullet
as Nancy Lee
(1942)
Pardon My Sarong
as Girl on Bus with Tommy (uncredited)
(1942)
Broadway
as TWA Stewardess
(1942)
The Old Chisholm Trail
as Mary Lee
(1942)
Little Joe, the Wrangler
as Janet Hammond
(1941)
Stick to Your Guns
as June Winters