Steve Holland (actor)
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| Born | January 8, 1925 |
| Died | May 10, 1997 (aged 72) |
Steve Holland (January 8, 1925 – May 10, 1997) was an American actor and male paperback, magazine, and fashion model.
Career
[edit]Before his acting credits, Holland was the model for Fawcett Comics' fictitious B-Western cowboy Bob Colt, which ran for ten issues in the early 1950s.[1]
Holland played Flash Gordon in the 1954 television series of the same name. The television show ran 39 episodes. He had a cameo appearance in the 1953 movie The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell.
His best-known model role was for artist James Bama's illustrations of the character Doc Savage used on the covers of the paperback reprints of the 1960s.[2] Bama called him "the world's greatest male model." His facial features were also used in the 1970s reprint of the original pulp Avenger novels.[3] Holland was also the model for Mack Bolan of The Executioner novels.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "A Month in the Life of the Comics - Collectors Society Message Boards". boards.collectors-society.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011.
- ^ "Doc Savage at 70". Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
- ^ "ThePulp.Net: PulpWiki: AvengerThe". thepulp.net.
- ^ "Men's "sweat magazine" art from the Rich Oberg Collection – Part 1: Mel Crair covers". www.menspulpmags.com. April 23, 2011.
External links
[edit]- Steve Holland at IMDb
- Flash Gordon Episode Guide
- Holland as Doc Savage
- Steve Holland – The World’s Greatest Male Model
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