American actor
Steve Holland |
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| Born | (1925-01-08)January 8, 1925 |
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| Died | May 10, 1997(1997-05-10) (aged 72) |
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Steve Holland (January 8, 1925 – May 10, 1997) was an American actor and male paperback, magazine, and fashion model.
Career
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]
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