Allen Holubar
{{Short description|American actor and director (1890–1923)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Allen J. Holubar
| image = Allen Holubar in The Blue Book of the Screen.jpg
| caption = Holubar in 1923
| birth_date = {{birth date|1890|08|03}}
| birth_place = San Francisco, California, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|1923|11|20|1890|08|03}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, US
| spouse = Dorothy Phillips (m.1912)
| occupation = Actor, film director, screenwriter
| yearsactive = 1913-1923
}}
Allen Holubar (August 3, 1890 – November 20, 1923){{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21052856/allen_holubar/|title=Allen Holubar|date=November 21, 1923|work=The Tennessean|access-date=January 20, 2019|pages=5}} was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter of the silent film era.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Az0_DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Allen+Holubar%22+actor&pg=PT203|title=Beyond the Sea of Beer: History of Immigration of Bohemians and Czechs to the New World and Their Contributions|first=Miloslav Jr.|last=Rechcigl|date=November 9, 2017|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=9781546202370|accessdate=May 3, 2018|via=Google Books}} He appeared in 38 films between 1913 and 1917. He also directed 33 films between 1916 and 1923.
Career
Allen Holubar started out as an actor on the stage where he met his wife Dorothy Phillips in the Chicago production of Every Woman. While she turned to the screen and continued to act he became a director and even produced. Encouraged by these successes, together they formed the Allen Holubar Production Company in 1920.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajXwxJuYd5gC&q=first+national+allen+holubar&pg=PA591|title=American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913_ÑÐ1929|last1=Soister|first1=John T.|last2=Nicolella|first2=Henry|last3=Joyce|first3=Steve|date=January 31, 2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786487905|language=en}} His 1918 film The Heart of Humanity was exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/358|title=The Heart of Humanity. 1919. Directed by Allen Holubar {{!}} MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en|access-date=January 20, 2019}}
Marriage and death
Holubar was married to actress Dorothy Phillips for eleven years from 1912 until his death in 1923 from pneumonia, following surgery, at the age of 33.{{Cite web|url=http://img7.newspapers.com/clip/21280578/franklin_film_holubar/|title=Franklin film (Holubar)|website=Newspapers.com|date=November 21, 1923 |page=25 |language=en|access-date=January 20, 2019}} Dorothy herself would die of pneumonia in 1980, at age 90.
Selected filmography
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- Into the North (1913)
- Courtmartialed (1915)
- The White Terror (1915)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
- The Field of Honor (1917)
- The Reed Case (1917)
- Heart Strings (1917)
- Treason (1917)
- The Talk of the Town (1918)
- The Heart of Humanity (1918–19)
- Broken Chains (1922)
Holubar wrote or contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
- Sirens of the Sea (1917)
- The Reed Case (1917)
- The Heart of Humanity (1918)
- The Mortgaged Wife (1918)
- The Talk of the Town (1918)
- Paid in Advance (1919)
- The Right to Happiness (1919)
- Once to Every Woman (1920)
- Man, Woman & Marriage (1921)
- Hurricane's Gal (1922)
Holubar directed the following films:
- Fear Not (1917)
- Sirens of the Sea (1917)
- The Field of Honor (1917)
- The Reed Case (1917)
- Treason (1917)
- A Soul for Sale (1918)
- The Heart of Humanity (1918)
- The Mortgaged Wife (1918)
- The Talk of the Town (1918)
- Paid in Advance (1919)
- The Right to Happiness (1919)
- Once to Every Woman (1920)
- Man-Woman-Marriage (1921)
- Broken Chains (1922)
- Hurricane's Gal (1922)
- Slander the Woman (1923)
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References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|0392709}}
- [http://frenchfilmsite.com/biogs/FFS_Allen_Holubar.html Allen Holubar - French Film Site]
- [http://kinotv.com/page/bio.php?namecode=120223&q=0&l=en kinotv.com]
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Category:American male film actors
Category:American male silent film actors
Category:American male screenwriters
Category:Male actors from San Francisco
Category:Deaths from pneumonia in California
Category:Film directors from California
Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:Screenwriters from California