Bob Holt

Acting

Bob Holt

Born 1928-12-28 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Robert John Holthaus (December 28, 1928 – August 2, 1985), better known as Bob Holt, was an American actor, best known for his voice work. Holt's first film role came in 1950, acting as Octavius Caesar in Julius Caesar. His career as a voice artist began with the 1968 short film Johnny Learns His Manners, for which he provided all of the voices. He later appeared in such works as Bedknobs and Broomsticks, several animated television specials with Dr. Seuss, for example, The Lorax (1972), Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973), The Hoober-Bloob Highway (1975) and The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982) and the animated film version of Charlotte's Web as Homer Zuckerman. Holt appeared in a variety of different works, including animated films for both adults (the 1974 sequel The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat) and for children, as well as voice and acting work in live-action films (for the blaxploitation film Abby, Holt provided the voice of the Demon). In 1975, he was the voice of Grape Ape on The New Tom and Jerry Show. The same year, Holt provided the voice of Avatar in Ralph Bakshi's film Wizards. Avatar's voice was an imitation of actor Peter Falk. In 1982, Bob Holt played the title role in Marvel Productions' animated The Incredible Hulk (1982 TV series), also in the process creating a library of stock roars that would be used for many years afterwards.

Acting credits

Gremlins poster
7.1

After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.

Gremlins

1984

Wizards poster
6.2

After the death of his mother, evil mutant wizard Blackwolf discovers long-lost military technologies. Full of ego and ambition, Blackwolf claims his mother's throne, assembles an army, and sets out to brainwash and conquer Earth. Meanwhile, Blackwolf's gentle twin brother, the bearded sage Avatar, calls upon his own magical abilities to foil Blackwolf's plans for world domination — even if it means eliminating his own flesh and blood.

Wizards

1977

Bedknobs and Broomsticks poster
7.0

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971

Charlotte's Web poster
6.9

Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

Charlotte's Web

1973

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat poster
5.1

Fritz, now married and a father, is desperate to escape the domestic hell he now finds himself in. Lighting up a joint, he begins to dream about his eight other lives, hoping to find one to provide a pleasant distraction. The drug-induced journeys he takes include spells as an astronaut, Hitler's psychiatrist, a courier travelling in hostile territory during a race war, and as a pupil of an Indian guru in the sewers of New York.

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

1974

The Day of the Locust poster
6.4

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

The Day of the Locust

1975

Dr. Seuss on the Loose poster
7.3

The pressure to conform, the inevitability of change, and the resistance to trying something new form the basis for the usual madcap adventures associated with the creative mind of Dr. Seuss. "Dr. Seuss on the Loose" builds upon three short stories - "The Sneetches," "The Zax" and "Green Eggs and Ham" - to create a thematic trio that explores the often fickle and flexible world of attitudes.

Dr. Seuss on the Loose

1973

The Lorax poster
7.2

The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax about the environmental destruction caused by his greed.

The Lorax

1972

The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat poster
6.2

The Cat in the Hat is all set for a lovely picnic, but the evil Grinch changes his plans by inventing a contraption that captures noise and makes it sound ferocious. The Cat has to save the world from the clutches of the Grinch and the only way to do it is to reach Grinch's soft spot.

The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat

1982

The Mouse and His Child poster
6.1

A mouse and his child, the two parts of a single small wind-up toy, go on a quest to become "self-winding".

The Mouse and His Child

1977

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery poster
6.1

Career criminals and a local youth carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery

1959

Medicur poster
8.0

Rocky McSnarl breaks out of prison and swears revenge on Dogfather, so he hide out in a hospital as a patient. However, Rocky finds out where he is and gets a job as a nurse at that same hospital. Last "Dogfather" cartoon.

Medicur

1976

Deviled Yeggs poster
10.0

A take off on The Godfather with canines in the roles of the Corleone family.

Deviled Yeggs

1974

The Adventures of the American Rabbit poster
5.5

To fight evil, a young rabbit can transform into a star spangled superhero.

The Adventures of the American Rabbit

1986

Oliver Twist poster
5.5

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

Oliver Twist

1974

The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas poster
6.4

While the rest of the world is getting ready for Christmas, all the bears in Bearbank are getting ready to sleep… except for Ted E. Bear. Ted gets curious about the holiday, and sets out to learn the meaning of it from Santa Claus himself.

The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas

1973

The Dogfather poster
6.5

A take off on The Godfather with canines in the roles of the Corleone family.

The Dogfather

1974

Rockhounds poster
8.0

Dogfather assigns Pug to steal the Pedigree Diamond from a rich couple, so Puge poses as a butler. However, he has to put up with the couple's spoiled child.

Rockhounds

1975

Abby poster
5.6

When a minister's wife becomes possessed by Eshu, the Nigerian god of sexuality, an exorcist is called in to drive the evil spirit away.

Abby

1974

Julius Caesar poster
6.0

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Julius Caesar

1950

No artwork available
7.0

Crazylegs Crane are chasing after Toro and Pancho, and the toads wind up in an abandoned shack. The Crane tries to disguise himself so he can trick the Toads to let him in, but all efforts fail. Last "Tijuana Toads" cartoon.

Flight to the Finish

1972

Heist and Seek poster
9.0

A take off on The Godfather with canines in the roles of the Corleone family.

Heist and Seek

1974

Wham and Eggs poster
5.3

While looking for a thousand year egg in a Japanese contest, Blue Racer stumbles upon a dragon who hatches in one of it, and the dragon thinks he is his mother. After many misfortunes raising him, Blue Racer sends the dragon to Tokyo to become a movie star. In the end, Blue Racer reads in a newspaper that the dragon did became an actor.

Wham and Eggs

1973

Puff the Magic Dragon: The Incredible Mr. Nobody poster
6.8

The magic dragon teaches a boy to believe in his own creative abilities.

Puff the Magic Dragon: The Incredible Mr. Nobody

1982