Jany Holt

Last updated
Jany Holt
Jany holt.jpg
Born
Ruxandra Ecaterina Vladescu Olt

(1909-05-13)13 May 1909
Died26 October 2005(2005-10-26) (aged 96)
Occupationactress
Years active1931–1995
Spouse(s)
(m. 1936;div. 1939)

Jacques Porel
(m. 1940)
Relatives Gabrielle Réjane
(mother-in-law)
Paul Porel
(father-in-law)

Jany Holt (born Ruxandra Ecaterina Vladescu Olt, 13 May 1909 – 26 October 2005) was a Romanian-born actress, who worked principally in the French cinema. [1]

Contents

Holt married French actor Marcel Dalio in 1936, divorcing in 1939. [1] In 1940, Holt married author Jacques Porel, the son of stage and early silent film actress Gabrielle Réjane and director Paul Porel; Holt and Porel stayed in France during the Nazi occupation. [2] During that period, Holt continued acting in films while she also worked with the French Resistance, later receiving the Croix de Guerre from General de Gaulle. [2]

Holt appeared in 48 films and television productions between 1931 and 1995.

Selected filmography

Related Research Articles

Bess Flowers American actress (1898–1984)

Bess Flowers was an American actress best known for her work as an extra in hundreds of films. She was known as "The Queen of the Hollywood Extras," appearing in more than 350 feature films and numerous comedy shorts in her 41-year career.

Viviane Romance French actress

Viviane Romance was a French actress.

Frank Launder was a British writer, film director and producer, who made more than 40 films, many of them in collaboration with Sidney Gilliat.

Annabella (actress) French actress

Annabella was a French cinema actress who appeared in 46 films between 1927 and 1952, including some Hollywood films during the late 1930s and 1940s.

Marcel Dalio French actor (1889–1983)

Marcel Dalio was a French character actor. He had major roles in two films directed by Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939).

Hugh Williams English actor

Hugh Anthony Glanmor Williams was a British actor and dramatist of Welsh descent.

Frank Reicher German-American actor

Frank Reicher was a German-born American actor, director and producer. He is best known for playing Captain Englehorn in the 1933 film King Kong.

John Loder (actor) British actor (1898–1988)

John Loder was established as a British film actor in Germany and Britain before migrating to the United States in 1928 for work in the new talkies. He worked in Hollywood for two periods, becoming an American citizen in 1947. After living also in Argentina, he became a naturalized British citizen in 1959.

Alberto Cavalcanti Brazilian film director

Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer. He was often credited under the single name "Cavalcanti".

Norma Varden English actress

Norma Varden Shackleton, known professionally as Norma Varden, was an English-American actress with a long film career.

Victor Francen Belgian actor (1888–1977)

Victor Francen was a Belgian-born actor with a long career in French cinema and in Hollywood.

Fernand Gravey Belgian actor

Fernand Gravey, also known as Fernand Gravet in the United States, was the son of actors Georges Mertens and Fernande Depernay, who appeared in silent films produced by pioneer Belge Cinéma Film.

Carmine Gallone Italian film director

Carmine Gallone was an early acclaimed Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer, who was also controversial for his works of pro-Fascist propaganda and historical revisionism. Considered one of Italian cinema's top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty-year career between 1913 and 1963.

Odette Joyeux French actress, playwright and novelist

Odette Joyeux was a French actress, playwright and novelist.

Gaby Morlay French actress

Gaby Morlay was a French film actress.

Jules Berry French actor

Jules Berry was a French actor.

Marguerite Moreno French actress

Marguerite Moreno was a French stage and film actress.

Line Noro was a French stage and film actress. During the 1930s she played glamorous, often exotic, women in films such as Pépé le Moko. Between 1945 and 1966 Noro was a member of the Comédie Française. She was married to the film director André Berthomieu.

Frédéric Mariotti was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned more than four decades through the early silent film era into the early 1950s.

James S. Brown Jr. was an American cinematographer. He was a prolific worker with around 150 credits during his career spent generally with lower-budget outfits such as Columbia Pictures, Mayfair Pictures and Monogram Pictures.

References

  1. 1 2 "Les Gens du Cinéma". 2008-03-14.
  2. 1 2 Bergan, Ronald (2005-11-18). "Obituary: Jany Holt". The Guardian . Retrieved 2019-12-27.