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John Holland

John Holland

John Holland (May 16, 1908 – May 21, 1993) was an American actor and singer.

John Holland was born Harold Boggess in Fremont, Nebraska. He adopted his grandfather's name John Holland as a stage name. He began acting in Hollywood films in 1937, and later appeared on numerous television series, including Hawaiian Eye, Wagon Train, and Perry Mason. His most notable film credits were My Fair Lady (1964), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967), and Chinatown (1974).

In addition to film and television, Holland acted in musical theater, such as the Broadway production of Peter Pan (1954), and in plays, such as the touring company of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He received positive reviews for his performance in a concert titled "The California Night of Music" in Los Angeles in September 1937. He often gave free concerts during visits to his parents in Alton, Illinois, accompanied by his father, organist Newton Boggess.

John Holland died on May 21, 1993 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles at age 85.

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Fear No Evil (1981)

Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his classmates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon Lucifer. As the evil wells up within him, he avenges himself in acts of demonic murder and destruction. But his foe, t ...

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From Noon Till Three (1976)

Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her short-term lover was killed by the law, Ama ...

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The Strongest Man in the World (1975)

Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged mix that ends up in Dexter's cereal box, giving him superhuman strength. The powerful formula comes to the ...

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Chinatown (1974)

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly ...

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Lost in the Stars (1974)

A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son. ...

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They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968)

At the end of WWII, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hiding place in the South American country of Mandoras, in order to revive the Third Reich at a later date. By the 1960s, the time has come, so a top scientist ...

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business. ...

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The Naked Brigade (1965)

A British girl is trapped on the island of Crete when the Germans invade it. ...

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My Blood Runs Cold (1965)

Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insi ...

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My Fair Lady (1964)

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. ...

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Open the Door and See all the People (1964)

Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters. ...

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The Madmen of Mandoras (1963)

A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a machine. The Nazis plan to release a deadly gas destroying all life on the planet. To ensure their success they kidnap Professor Coleman the only man on the planet ...

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A Gathering of Eagles (1963)

Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a ...

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Police Nurse (1963)

While investigating his wife's sudden death, a policeman becomes involved with shady doctors and black-market racketeers. ...

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Air Patrol (1962)

L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter. ...

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Peter Pan (1960)

In this magical tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy sidekick Tinkerbell visit the nursery of Wendy, Michael and John Darling. With a sprinkling of pixie dust, Peter and his new friends fly out the nursery window a ...

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The High Powered Rifle (1960)

A private detective (Willard Parker) falls for the girlfriend (Allison Hayes) of a racketeer whom he believes has targeted him for death. ...

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Lust to Kill (1958)

A cowboy escapes from jail with the help of his girlfriend, and goes after the men he believes are responsible for his brother being shot down by lawmen. ...

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The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)

Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Am ...

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King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)

Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart. ...

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Rio Grande Patrol (1950)

Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in the luggage of the girls that come to work in his saloon. Border guards Kansas and Chito, along with Mexican Captain Trevinom suspect them and they are try ...

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Second Chance (1950)

A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years of their marriage. ...

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Rock Island Trail (1950)

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area. ...

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Massacre River (1949)

Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles. ...

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Law of the Golden West (1949)

Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy. ...

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State Department: File 649 (1949)

Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and when ...

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My Dear Secretary (1948)

A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not w ...

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The Three Musketeers (1948)

Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France. ...

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Behind Locked Doors (1948)

Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Mean ...

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Sons of Adventure (1948)

This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, ...

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Blonde Ice (1948)

A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead. ...

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Romance on the High Seas (1948)

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catc ...

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The Voice of the Turtle (1947)

An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City. ...

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Big Town After Dark (1947)

A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests. ...

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Lucky Legs (1942)

Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the round ...

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Call of the Canyon (1942)

A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast. ...

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Invisible Agent (1942)

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller. ...

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She's in the Army (1942)

A socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a newspaper columnist, who wagered $5000 that she couldn't last six weeks. ...

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Take a Letter, Darling (1942)

A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love. ...

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House of Errors (1942)

Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers help ...

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Don Winslow of the Navy (1942)

A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort un ...

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Uncle Joe (1941)

A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm. ...

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Dangerous Lady (1941)

Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge. Two people who know the truth are killed and 'Duke' Is shot at. Despite some interference by Police-Sergean ...

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Our Wife (1941)

A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success. ...

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Sky Raiders (1941)

Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. Enemy spies attempt to steal, sabotage and discredit the inventions and founders of the company. ...

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Pot o' Gold (1941)

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly ...

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The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)

Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato. ...

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Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detec ...

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Up in the Air (1940)

A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police. ...

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Balalaika (1939)

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love. ...

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Circus Girl (1937)

A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival. ...

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Paradise Express (1937)

A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters. ...

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Join the Marines (1937)

New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow. ...

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