Patrick Holt

In 1955, he married Sandra Dorne, with whom he had occasionally co-starred.

Arthur Rank charm school and steadily established himself as a leading actor in 1950s "second features. " Quinlan has called him "the Dennis Price of the B film. " By evolving into a character actor, he sustained his career into old age, working on stage and television as well as in the cinema, and he was still listed in the Spotlight casting directory at the time of his death. His first wife was the actress Sonia Holm.

He became an actor because he wanted to be in films. He spent 2 years at Hull Repertory where he met and married actress Sonia Holm in 1947 (Parted 1957). He moved to Croydon Rep where, with it being close to London talent scouts often dropped in.

Patrick Holt's real name was Patrick George Parsons. Some of his childhood was spent in India with his Uncle. Patrick was sent to Christ's Hospital, a famous charity school in England, UK. He formed a close friendship with a boy in the same boarding house, the future film star Michael Wilding. There were those who thought Holt the better actor. He started his career in repertory theatres, and in 1939, landed a leading part on the London stage, but World War II broke out, and he joined the army. He saw service in Burma, Singapore, and India, often on secret missions behind enemy lines, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After the war, he joined the J.

He appeared in two unrelated adaptations of Walter Scott's 1820 novel "Ivanhoe": Ivanhoe (1952) and Ivanhoe (1958).