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Harold Holland (May 12, 1885–September 27, 1974) was a British theatre and silent film actor and playwright. He was born in Bloomsbury, London.[1] He played Dr. Rogers in the 1913 film Riches and Rogues,[1] and took the lead role of Dr. Thomas "Tom" Flynn in the 1914 comedy The Lucky Vest.[2] After having worked on Charlie Chaplin films including Shanghaied and The Bank in 1915, he was hired by the Morosco Photoplay Company in 1916 as it expanded.[3]

Before and after working in silent films, Holland had a theatre career in the United Kingdom. His West End roles include Bella Donna, One-Act Plays, and Treasure Island.[4] He also performed as the title character in the UK tour of Sherlock Holmes in 1919.[5][6] As a playwright, he wrote the 1918 war play True Values, a propaganda piece encouraging women at home to work and invest in the war,[7][8] and 1927 play The Big Drum, an early self-referential play set in a fictional theatre.[9][10][11] Other works written by Holland include BW[12] and Break the Sword.[13]

His later film career, in the United States, included work in the early silent Westerns, for which he was called "a silent star",[14] and noted roles in various films dealing with foreign ethnicity, including two roles as Irish policemen who prevent organized crime by Chinese gangs.[15][16][17]

He died in Los Angeles in 1974.[1]

Filmography

• Riches and Rogues (1913),[18] a British and Colonial Kinematograph Company film[1]
• The Lucky Vest (1914)[2]
• Shanghaied (1915)[3]
• The Bank (1915)[3]
• Get the Boy (1916)[19]
• The House of Lies (1916)[20]
• Daughter Angele (1918)[20]
• The Midnight Patrol (1918)[20]
• Tony America (1918)[20]
• Silk Hosiery (1920)[20]
• Where Lights Are Low (1921)[20]
• Black Roses (1921)[1]
• The Spenders (1921; as Harry Holland)[21]
• The Man Trackers (1921)[20]
• Come on Over (1922)[1]
• Chalk Marks (1924)[1]
• The Call of the Klondike (1926)[22]

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