From Wikipedia
Holbrook Blinn (January 23, 1872 – June 24, 1928) was an
American stage and film actor
Blinn was born in San Francisco. 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.
Blinn died from complications of a fall off his horse in
1928.