Tim Holt Filmography

The Yesterday Machine

Synopsis: In this campy sci-fi adventure, an obsessed Nazi inventor devises a time machine that will allow him to bring Hitler into the present. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Monster That Challenged the World

Actors: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Harlan Warde, Casey Adams

Synopsis: The Monster That Challenged the World is the misleadingly title for one of the more well-regarded second-echelon horror films of the 1950s. An underwater earthquake in the Sargasso sea yields up the eggs of a long-extinct sea monster. Once hatched, the monster's offspring (which resemble huge Read More

Desert Passage

Actors: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Walter Reed, Dorothy Patrick, John Dehner

Synopsis: Director Leslie Selander pulls out all the stops in this the last of RKO's Tim Holt Westerns. A wounded parolee, Carver (Walter Reed), hires stagecoach operators Tim and Chito (Richard Martin) to drive him to Mexico. En route, they encounter Emily (Joan Dixon), the local schoolmarm, who recognizes Read More

Trail Guide

Actors: Tim Holt, Linda Douglas, Frank Wilcox, Robert Sherwood, John M. Pickard

Synopsis: Tim Holt's first western release for 1952 was Trail Guide. Tim (Holt) and his perennial saddle pal Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) are hired to shepherd a wagon train to Arizona. Our Heroes end up protecting the travellers from a vicious ban of land-usurpers. Halfway through the proceedings, Tim Read More

Road Agent

Actors: Tim Holt, Noreen Nash, Mauritz Hugo, Dorothy Patrick, Bob Wilke

Synopsis: At the time of its release the RKO "B"-western Road Agent raised eyebrows, not because of its violent content, but because of its astonishing lack of violence. Saddle pals Tim (Holt) and Chito (Richard Martin) find out the hard way that usurious Milo Brand (Mauritz Hugo) is charging exorbitant Read More

Target

Actors: Tim Holt, Linda Douglas, Walter Reed, John Hamilton

Synopsis: Tim Holt and Richard Martin ride again in the RKO budget western Target. The story is nothing new: Tim (Holt) and Chito (Martin) take on a band of criminals who've been flummoxing local ranchers out of their land. The film's novelty value is the presence of a lady marshal, played by Linda Douglas. Read More

Hot Lead

Actors: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Ross Elliott, John Dehner, Paul Marion

Synopsis: Tim Holt comes to the aid of a young telegrapher wrongly accused of murder in this average western from RKO. The telegrapher, Dave Collins Ross Elliott, is released on parole and on his way west when hi-jacked by the same gang that caused his imprisonment in the first place. Gang leader Turk Read More

Saddle Legion

Actors: Tim Holt, Dorothy Malone, Robert Livingston, Mauritz Hugo, James Bush

Synopsis: Saddle Legion stars RKO Radio's resident cowboy hero Tim Holt. As in most of his postwar vehicles, Holt is teamed with Irish-Mexican laugh-spinner Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin). This time, Dave (Holt) and Chito come to the aid of their boss, rancher Fred Warren (Cliff Clark). It seems that Read More

His Kind of Woman

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: His Kind of Woman directed by veteran John Farrow, is a convoluted mystery thriller which tries unsuccessfully to combine slapstick comedy with excessive violence, resulting in a film that depends more on stereotypes than on plot development. Nick (Raymond Burr), is a deported gang boss who needs Read More

Pistol Harvest

Actors: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Robert Clarke, Mauritz Hugo, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: Pistol Harvest starred RKO's "house cowboys" Tim Holt and Richard Martin. In this one, the two heroes are accused of killing their boss. They are saved from the hangman's noose when two other guys are arrested, but Holt feels as though justice is still not being served. On their own, Holt and Read More

Gunplay

Actors: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Harper Carter, Mauritz Hugo, Robert Bice

Synopsis: Tim Holt rides again in RKO's Gunplay. This time, Holt and saddle pal Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) try to solve a murder. The victim is the father of 11-year-old Chip Martin ([Harper Carter]) (best known for his portrayal of Clifton Webb's son in Titanic). At stake is a huge inheritance, which Read More

Overland Telegraph

Actors: Tim Holt, Gail Davis, Hugh Beaumont, Mari Blanchard, George Nader

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Selander stars Tim Holt as a cowboy appropriately named Tim Holt. In order to hinder the construction of a new telegraph line for his own financial gain, scheming shopkeeper Paul Manning (George Nader) Read More

Rio Grande Patrol

Actors: Tim Holt, Jane Nigh, Douglas Fowley, Cleo Moore, Rick Vallin

Synopsis: Westerner Tim Holt and his sidekick Richard Martin are hired to act as border guards on the Rio Grande. This being a modern western (more or less), Holt is obliged to keep insurrectionists from smuggling machine guns into Mexico. The villainy this time around is in the grubby but formidable hands Read More

Law of the Badlands

Actors: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Robert Livingston, Leonard Penn, Harry Woods

Synopsis: Western star Tim Holt and director Lesley Selander continued their collaboration with Law of the Badlands. Holt and his cohort Chico Rafferty (Richard Martin) are lawmen who pose as desperadoes. The plan is to infiltrate a vicious gang of counterfeiters who've been flooding the frontier with funny Read More

Border Treasure

Actors: Tim Holt, Jane Nigh, John Doucette, House Peters, Jr., Inez Cooper

Synopsis: For a Tim Holt western, Border Treasure is surprisingly light on action scenes. The plot is the main consideration, as Ed Porter (Holt) and his saddle pal Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) set about collecting money for an earthquake relief fund. The donations are stolen by the villains, whereupon Read More

Dynamite Pass

Actors: Tim Holt, Lynne Roberts, Robert Shayne, Don C. Harvey

Synopsis: Tim Holt and Richard Martin, RKO's resident western good guys, are back in Dynamite Pass. Usually cast as cowpunchers, Holt and Martin are construction workers Ross and Chito this time out. Someone is trying to prevent honest road builder Dan (Regis Toomey) from completing his job, and that Read More

Rider from Tucson

Actors: Tim Holt, Elaine Riley, Douglas Fowley, Veda Ann Borg, Robert Shayne

Synopsis: Arizona rodeo champs Dave Saunders (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) head for Oro Grande, CO, to witness the marriage of their friend Tug Bailey (William Phipps) to Easterner Jane Whipple (Elaine Riley). But Bailey, a successful prospector, is in trouble with claim jumpers, notably Read More

Storm over Wyoming

Actors: Tim Holt, Noreen Nash, Betty Underwood, Bill Kennedy

Synopsis: RKO's resident cowboy star Tim Holt made his first 1950 appearance in Storm over Wyoming. Tim and his saddle pal Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) ride smack dab into the middle of a range war. After preventing a lynching, Our Heroes try to get to the bottom of all the trouble. What we know, but Read More

Brothers in the Saddle

Synopsis: The siblings of the title are Tim Holt and Steve Brodie. Holt is the good guy (after all, the film was part of Holt's RKO western series), while younger brother Brodie is the hotheaded troublemaker. The film offers a wealth of fistfights, gun duels and pursuits on horseback, as well as a dash of Read More

Riders of the Range

Actors: Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Jacqueline White, Reed Hadley, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: RKO's resident cowboy stars Tim Holt and Richard "Chito" Martin were back in 1949's Riders of the Range. Hired on as ranch hands, Kansas (Holt) and Chito come to the aid of ranch owner Dusty (Jacqueline White), whose brother (Robert Clarke) has been led astray by a crooked gambler (Reed Hadley). Read More

Masked Raiders

Actors: Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Marjorie Lord, Gary Gray, Frank Wilcox

Synopsis: Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizing the frontier. Infiltrating the gang, Holt and Martin learn that the raiders are operating altruistically, robbing from the rich to give to the poor. The real villain, it seems, is the local banker Read More

The Rustlers

Actors: Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Martha Hyer, Steve Brodie, Lois Andrews

Synopsis: Another of RKO's profitable Tim Holt western series, Rustlers costars Holt with his popular sidekick Richard Martin (as Chico Rafferty). Holt and Martin are arrested by sheriff Harry Shannon, who accuses them of being members of a vicious rustling gang. Actually Shannon is the head of the Read More

Stagecoach Kid

Actors: Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Jeff Donnell, Joe Sawyer, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: While searching for a stolen gold shipment, partners in a stagecoach line attempt to keep crooked ranch hands from stealing their employer's land. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mysterious Desperado

Actors: Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Edward Norris, Robert Livingston

Synopsis: Tim Holt's second RKO western for 1949 was Mysterious Desperado. Once more teamed with Richard Martin as his saddle pal Chito, Tim rides into a sleepy California town, where Chito hopes to claim his uncle's estate. Tim decides to stick around and investigate when it turns out that Uncle was Read More

Guns of Hate

Actors: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Myrna Dell

Synopsis: Filmed at majestic Lone Pine, CA, this fine B-Western features Tim Holt and sidekick Richard Martin helping an elderly miner, Jason Robards Sr., with an obstinate wagon-wheel. But the two friends become instant suspects when the miner is found murdered for the map to his claim. Although she is Read More

Gun Smugglers

Actors: Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Martha Hyer, Gary Gray

Synopsis: Tim Holt stars in Gun Smugglers, stretching his range by playing a character named Tim Holt. Our Hero, once again teamed with wisecracking Chico Rafferty (Richard Martin), is working on behalf of the government. His quarry: A gang of mercenary criminals who steal weapons from the US Army, then Read More

Western Heritage

Actors: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Lois Andrews, Tony Barrett

Synopsis: Western Heritage was Tim Holt's first western vehicle for the 1947-48 season, discounting his previous appearances in RKO Radio's "Zane Grey" series. Together with his new saddle pal Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), Holt mediates a feud between ranchers and land barons. The villains use a forged Read More

Indian Agent

Actors: Tim Holt, Noah Beery, Jr., Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Harry Woods

Synopsis: In the early 1930s, Tom Keene was RKO's resident western star. By 1948, Keene had changed his name to Richard Powers, and had slipped unobtrusively into supporting roles. Back at RKO for Indian Agent, Keene/Powers plays a crooked government man who has been rerouting the Indian's food supplies to Read More

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: John Huston's 1948 treasure-hunt classic begins as drifter Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), down and out in Tampico, Mexico, impulsively spends his last bit of dough on a lottery ticket. Later on, Dobbs and fellow indigent Curtin (Tim Holt) seek shelter in a cheap flophouse and meet Howard (Walter Huston Read More

The Arizona Ranger

Actors: Tim Holt, Jack Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: In this western, a troubled, battle-weary youth must somehow put his life together after he is discharged from Roosevelt's Rough Riders. His father wants him to take over the family ranch, but the son is still too haunted by war's horrors to care. Instead he begins wandering aimlessly until he Read More

Thunder Mountain

Actors: Tim Holt, Martha Hyer, Steve Brodie, Virginia Owen, Harry Woods

Synopsis: Based on Zane Grey's 1922 novel To the Last Man, filmed previously by Paramount in 1923 and 1934, this fine RKO Western marked the return to his home lot of Tim Holt after a stint in the Army Air Corps. Returning to his Arizona homestead, Marvin Hayden (Holt) lands in the middle of the age-old Read More

Under the Tonto Rim

Actors: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Carol Forman

Synopsis: Bearing no resemblance to the two previous Westerns of the same title, Under the Tonto Rim retained little more than the title from Zane Grey's 1926 story. Tim Holt and sidekick Richard Martin are operating a stagecoach line. But when a gang of highwaymen steals the Wells Fargo box and abducts Read More

Wild Horse Mesa

Actors: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: RKO Radio's "Zane Grey" western series came to an end with the eighth entry, Wild Horse Mesa. Tim Holtstars as a cowboy who earns his keep by rounding up wild mustangs. When his boss is murdered after selling the horses, our hero and his Irish-Mexican sidekick Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) try Read More

My Darling Clementine

Actors: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Jane Darwell, Walter Brennan, Cathy Downs, Ward Bond

Synopsis: One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt Earp legend, but it is still one of the most entertaining. Henry Fonda stars as former lawman Wyatt Earp, who, after cleaning up Dodge City, arrives in the outskirts of Read More

Red River Robin Hood

Synopsis: In this western, a pair of ranchers tire of being oppressed by the excessive taxation an avaricious crook in possession of a bogus Spanish land grant and so set off to help their neighbors by emulating the rakish Robin Hood. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Avenging Rider

Actors: Tim Holt, Ann Summers, Davison Clark, Norman Willis

Synopsis: Tim Holt's third RKO Radio western for 1943 was The Avenging Rider. The story finds Holt trying to clear himself and his partner Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards of a robbery-murder rap. The actual villains each carry a portion of a Five of Spades, so that they can identify themselves when they claim Read More

Fighting Frontier

Actors: Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Ann Summers, Eddie Dew, William Gould

Synopsis: The first of Tim Holt's 1943 quota of RKO westerns was Fighting Frontier. This time, Holt appears to be cast as a double-dyed villain. Actually, it's all a ruse, cooked up by the Governor to find out the identity of a clever bandit chieftan. It wouldn't be fair to reveal the name of the bad guy Read More

Sagebrush Law

Synopsis: A young buckaroo gallops off after the conniving crooks who framed his bank president daddy for embezzlement. Plenty of western action ensues until justice prevails and the ornery varmints are jailed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Magnificent Ambersons

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in its own way. Writer/director Welles does not appear on camera, but his voiceover narration superbly sets the stage for the movie's action, which fades in valentine Read More

Pirates of the Prairie

Actors: John Elliott

Synopsis: In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of vigilantes has been terrorizing the citizenry. Going undercover as a gunsmith, Larry quickly learns that the leader of the vigilantes, John Spencer (John Elliott), is an honest Read More

Hitler's Children

Actors: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: This modestly produced film version of Gregor Ziemmer's book Education for Death surprised everyone at RKO--and in the film industry--by becoming one the biggest hits of 1943. The "children" invoked in the title are borne on behalf of Adolf Hitler; according to the film, it is standard operating Read More

Bandit Ranger

Synopsis: A courageous cowboy dons the guise of a Texas Ranger to keep murderous cattle rustlers from harming a beautiful young woman, the daughter of the dead lawman whose clothes he wears. This western follows his adventures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Thundering Hoofs

Actors: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Lee "Lasses" White, Luana Walters, Archie Twitchell

Synopsis: RKO Radio's Thundering Hoofs was the first of several Tim Holt westerns directed by "Hopalong Cassidy" veteran Lesley Selander. The plot is galvanized by the chicanery of crooked lawyer Farley (Archie Twitchell), who has been sent westward to purchase a stagecoach line on behalf of his boss. It Read More

The Fargo Kid

Actors: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Emmett Lynn, Jane Drummond, Cy Kendall

Synopsis: Tim Holt is mistaken for a notorious gunslinger in this average Western, which RKO filmed at Kanab, UT, in tandem with the star's previous effort, the much better Wagon Train. Believed by everyone to be Deuce Mallory, a gunman hired to kill local prospector Caleb Winters (Paul Scardon), The Fargo Read More

Robbers of the Range

Actors: Tim Holt, Virginia Vale, Ray Whitley, Emmett Lynn, LeRoy Mason

Synopsis: Tim Holt plays a rancher named Drummond who runs up against a gang of crooked frontier land agents. When Drummond complains about land-office hanky panky, he's promptly framed for murder. Escaping the law, our hero exposes the real villains with the help of his saddle pals Smokey (Ray Whitley) and Read More

Six Gun Gold

Actors: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Jan Clayton, Lee "Lasses" White, LeRoy Mason

Synopsis: In this exciting western, a cowboy hero and his partner are en route to meet the hero's brother when they are waylaid by the new town marshal (a bad guy in disguise). The brother (the rightful marshal) has mysteriously vanished and when the evil lawman threatens them they high-tail it to the Read More

Along the Rio Grande

Actors: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Betty Jane Rhodes, Emmett Lynn, Robert Fiske

Synopsis: Tim Holt and sidekicks Ray Whitley and Emmett Lynn join an outlaw gang in this RKO Western filmed on-location at Victorville, CA, and at the Walker and Jauregui movie ranches. When their friend Pop Edwards is shot (in the back, no less) by Doc Randall (Robert Fiske) and his crew, Jeff (Holt) Read More

Land of the Open Range

Actors: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Lee "Lasses" White, Hobart Cavanaugh

Synopsis: In time-honored B-Western fashion, RKO took the exciting Oklahoma land-rush sequence from their Academy Award-winning Cimarron (1931) and crafted an entirely new story to suit their cowboy star in residence, the personable Tim Holt. The result was an exciting, well-acted story of a small-town real Read More

Back Street

Actors: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh, Tim Holt

Synopsis: Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan star in this adaptation of Fannie Hurst's tearjerking novel about a woman who chooses to stand beside a man who cannot marry her. Rae (Margaret Sullavan) is a woman from Ohio who meets a dashing gentleman from out of town, Walter (Charles Boyer). They soon fall Read More

The Bandit Trail

Actors: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Janet Waldo, Lee "Lasses" White, Morris Ankrum

Synopsis: In one of his best early Westerns, Tim Holt avenges the accidental shooting of his father by robbing the Cedar Fork bank, who owes him 20,000 dollars. With his uncle Red Haggerty (Morris Ankrum) and old friend, Whopper (Lee White), in tow, Tim then plans to take on the bank in Remington. The Read More

Dude Cowboy

Actors: Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Ray Whitley, Lee "Lasses" White, Louise Currie

Synopsis: Tim Holt is, of course, a true red-blooded cowboy in this overly tuneful RKO Western and only pretends to be the title character in order to locate a kidnapped engraver. The latter (Byron Foulger) is forced by a crooked dude ranch owner (Eddie Kane) to print counterfeit money but a couple of bills Read More

Riding the Wind

Actors: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Lee "Lasses" White, Eddie Dew

Synopsis: An average Tim Holt oater from RKO, Riding the Wind is set in the New Mexico desert where the ranchers are at the mercy of nasty Henry Dodge (Eddie Dew), the owner of the Dodge Land and Water Company. Ranchers Clay Stewart (Holt) and Burt Macleod (Earle Hodgins) at first hire lawyer Jackson (Larry Read More

Come On, Danger!

Actors: Tim Holt, Frances Neal, Ray Whitley, Lee "Lasses" White, Karl Hackett

Synopsis: A remake of the 1933 RKO western of the same name, Come on, Danger! stars Tim Holt in the role originally essayed by Tom Keene. Holt goes after a gang of rustlers, commandeered by an attractive young woman (Julie Haydon in the original, Frances Neal in the remake). The girl has been accused of Read More

Cyclone on Horseback

Actors: Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Ray Whitley, Lee "Lasses" White, Harry Worth

Synopsis: Veteran burlesque comic Lee "Lasses" White replaced Emmett Lynn as comic sidekick "Whopper" in this fine Tim Holt Western for RKO. Whopper, Stan Bradford (Holt), and Smokey (Ray Whitley) are delivering a herd of pack horses to telegraph lineman Jeff Corbin (Dennis Moore) when intercepted by Read More

Laddie

Actors: Joan Leslie, Tim Holt, Virginia Gilmore, Joan Carroll, Spring Byington, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: 1940's Laddie was the third cinemadaptation of the heartwarming story by Gene Stratton-Porter (the second version, filmed in 1935, was directed by no less than George Stevens). Tim Holt plays the title character, a good-natured Indiana farmer who falls in love with immigrant English girl Pamela (Virginia Gilmore Read More

Wagon Train

Actors: Tim Holt, Martha O'Driscoll, Ray Whitley, Emmett Lynn, Bud McTaggart

Synopsis: In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain Matt Gardner (Cliff Clark) wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibley's wagon master (Wade Crosby) to switch Read More

Swiss Family Robinson

Actors: Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Terry Kilburn, Tim Holt

Synopsis: Johan David Wyss' novel Swiss Family Robinson had been in print for n