page_title: Holbrook Blinn
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Holbrook Blinn / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Holbrook Blinn as Chief Rain-In-The-Face, in the play The Great Silence
context_page_description: Holbrook Blinn was an American stage and film actor.
context_section_description: Blinn was born in San Francisco, California. His father was Charles H. Blinn, a Civil War veteran and his mother Nellie Hollbrook was an actress. He appeared on the legitimate stage as a child, and played throughout the United States and in London. He appeared in silent films, and was the director of popular one-act plays at New York's Princess Theatre.
  In 1900, he appeared in London in Ib and Little Christina.  His Broadway stage successes include The Duchess of Dantzic (1903, as Napoleon), Salvation Nell (1908) in a breakout performance as the brutish husband of Mrs. Fiske, Within the Law (1912), Molière (1919), A Woman of No Importance (1916), The Lady of the Camellias (1917), and Getting Together (1918). 
  Some of his finest silent screen accomplishments are in McTeague (1916), The Bad Man (1923), Rosita (1923), Yolanda (1924), and Janice Meredith (1924), the latter two films both starring Marion Davies.
caption: Blinn as Chief Rain-in-the-Face in the play The Great Silence (Sunset Magazine, Nov. 1905 - April, 1906)
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