Holbrook Blinn (January 23, 1872 – June 24, 1928) was an American stage and film actor.
Early years
Blinn was the son of American Civil War veteran Col. Charles Blinn and actress Nellie Holbrook-Blinn. He was born in San Francisco and attended Stanford University before he began a career in acting.[2]
Biography
Blinn debuted on stage as an adult early in the 1890s with a traveling company in the western United States. By 1892 he had moved to the East, acting for two seasons in The New South. Following that experience, he headed the first dramatic troupe to tour in Alaska.[2]
Blinn had appeared on the legitimate stage at age 6, in The Streets of London,[3] 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.[4] He was also one of the founders of that theatre.[5]
