Harold Holland

Harold Holland (May 12, 1885 – September 27, 1974) was a British theatre and

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

• 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]