Jim Holt (actor)
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Jim Holt, is a British-born actor who has appeared in many Australian television shows and films.

Holt is also a magician, and has had the opportunity to incorporate this talent into some of his television appearances. Well known productions in which he has appeared include "Crocodile" Dundee II, A Country Practice
A Country Practice
A Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...

, Embassy
Embassy (TV series)
Embassy was an Australian television series originally broadcast by the ABC from 1990 to 1992. There were three series produced with a total of 39 episodes. The series was set in the Australian embassy of a fictional south-east Asian country called Ragaan, located somewhere between Thailand and...

, G. P.
G. P.
G.P. was an Australian television series produced by Roadshow, Coote & Carroll for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 1989 and 1996.The series was set around a general medical practice in an inner-city suburb...

, Heartbreak High
Heartbreak High
Heartbreak High is an Australian television series that ran for seven years from 1994 to 1999. The series dealt with the students of Hartley High, a tough high school in a multi-racial area of Sydney, and proved to be a more gritty and fast-paced show than many of its contemporaries...

, Wildside, and most recently in an episode of Packed to the Rafters
Packed to the Rafters
Packed to the Rafters is an Australian family-orientated television series which premiered on the Seven Network on Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 8:30 pm. The drama series features a mix of lighthearted comedy woven through the plot. It revolves around the Rafter family facing work pressures and...

(2009).

He is married to publishing executive Robyn Holt and they have an adult daughter named Hannah. From around 2002 to early 2006 he was based in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 while his wife was the Managing Director of Conde Nast Zao (Russia)
Condé Nast Publications
Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, as well as four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps...

, publishers of Russian Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...

, GQ, Architectural Digest
Architectural Digest
Architectural Digest is an American monthly magazine. Its principal subject is interior design, not — as the name of the magazine might suggest — architecture more generally. The magazine is published by Condé Nast Publications and was founded in 1920, by the Knapp family, who sold it in 1993...

and Glamour
Glamour (magazine)
Glamour is a women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Founded in 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood....

magazines.

Acting

Year Film Role Notes
1983 Under Capricorn William Winter TV mini-series
1983 Who Killed Baby Azaria?
Who Killed Baby Azaria?
Who Killed Baby Azaria? is a 1983 Australian TV docudrama about the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain. It was written by Frank Moorhouse and directed by Michael Thornhill.-Plot introduction:...

Detective Sergeant Charlwood TV mini-series
1984 Bodyline
Bodyline (miniseries)
Bodyline is an Australian 1984 television miniseries which dramatised the events of the 1932–1933 English Ashes cricket tour of Australia....

Harold Larwood TV mini-series
1985 Stock Squad TV
1985 Anzacs Pte. "Dingo" Gordon TV mini-series
1986 The Humpty Dumpty Man Russell Wilkes
1986 Five Times Dizzy
Five Times Dizzy
Five Times Dizzy is a children's novel by Australian author Nadia Wheatley It was first published in 1982. In 1986 it became an Australian children's television series. The book is about the comedy and drama of a Greek Australian family in a multi-cultural neighbourhood of inner-city Sydney...

TV Series
1986 Short Changed Serizio
1987 Captain James Cook Lt. John Williamson TV mini-series
1987 Twelfth Night Valentine Film
1987 Vietnam Lt. Smart TV mini-series
1987 Going Sane Irwin Grant
1987 The Time Guardian Rafferty
1988 Os Emissários de Khalom
Portuguese films of the 1980s
A list of films produced in the Cinema of Portugal ordered by year of release in the 1980s. For an alphabetical list of Portuguese films see :Category:Portuguese films-1980s:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...

Lord Costigan Film (Portuguese)
1988 "Crocodile" Dundee II Erskine Fifth biggest income-grossing film of the year in the USA.
1988 Fever
Fever (1989 film)
Fever is a 1989 Australian erotic thrillerfilm about an Australian policeman who finds a suitcase full of money, and the course of events which unfold when he decides to keep it. The film was directed by Craig Lahiff, and stars Bill Hunter, Gary Sweet, and Mary Regan....

Morris
1988 Evil Angels
A Cry in the Dark
Evil Angels is a 1988 Australian film directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay by Schepisi and Robert Caswell is based on John Bryson's 1985 book Evil Angels, the title under which the film was released in Australia...

John Eldridge Film: released outside Australia as A Cry in the Dark. Based on the 1985 book Evil Angels.
1989 How Wonderful! Lord Costigan
1989 The Flying Doctors
The Flying Doctors
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia....

Brian TV Series - 1 episode
1982–1990 A Country Practice
A Country Practice
A Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...

Kevin Carson (1982)/Cole Swetz(1983)/Dr Ian Parker (1988)/Sgt Bruce Sharp (1990) TV Series - 8 episodes
1990 Hey Dad..!
Hey Dad..!
Hey Dad..! was an Australian sitcom produced by Gary Reilly Productions, originally airing from 1987 to 1994 on the Seven Network.-Synopsis:Architect Martin Kelly singlehandedly raises his children Simon, Debbie and Jenny...

Brian Edwards TV Series - 1 episode
1991 Strangers Graham TV
1992 The Last Man Hanged Journalist TV
1992 Backsliding Jack Tyson
1991–1992 Embassy
Embassy (TV series)
Embassy was an Australian television series originally broadcast by the ABC from 1990 to 1992. There were three series produced with a total of 39 episodes. The series was set in the Australian embassy of a fictional south-east Asian country called Ragaan, located somewhere between Thailand and...

James Peake TV Series - 4 episodes
1993–1994 G. P.
G. P.
G.P. was an Australian television series produced by Roadshow, Coote & Carroll for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 1989 and 1996.The series was set around a general medical practice in an inner-city suburb...

Justin Browning TV Series - 2 episodes
1995 Blue Murder
Blue Murder (mini-series)
Blue Murder is a two-part Australian television miniseries produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1995, and is based on true events. Given its confronting content, the DVD release was classified MA 15+...

Brian Alexander TV mini-series
1996 The Man from Snowy River
The Man From Snowy River (TV series)
The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in the United States as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga.The television...

Noah Bates TV series - 1 episode (released in the UK & US as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga)
1997 Big Sky Mark Campbell TV
1997 Diana & Me Detective
1997–1998 Heartbreak High
Heartbreak High
Heartbreak High is an Australian television series that ran for seven years from 1994 to 1999. The series dealt with the students of Hartley High, a tough high school in a multi-racial area of Sydney, and proved to be a more gritty and fast-paced show than many of its contemporaries...

Tony Black TV Series - 4 episodes
1998 Children's Hospital Duncan TV Series - 1 episode
1998–1999 Wildside Sgt Graham Holbeck TV Series - 10 episodes
1999 Murder Call
Murder Call
Murder Call was an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and seen on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The idea to the series was born by the books of Tessa Vance by Jennifer Rowe: Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked...

Graham Hart TV
2000 The Potato Factory
The Potato Factory
The Potato Factory is a 1995 historical-novel by Bryce Courtenay, which was made into an Australian miniseries in 2000. The book is the first in a three-part series, followed by Tommo & Hawk and Solomon's Song...

Harris TV mini-series
2000 The Monkey's Mask
The Monkey's Mask
The Monkey's Mask is a 2000 thriller film directed by Samantha Lang. It stars Susie Porter and Kelly McGillis. Porter plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect in the disappearance of a young woman...

Bill McDonald Film: aka Cercle intime (France), aka La maschera di scimmia (Italy), aka Poetry, Sex (Japan: English title)
2001 My Husband My Killer Porter TV
2002 Sway Minister
2002 Young Lions
Young Lions (TV series)
Young Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in Ireland on RTÉ Two.The series was based around the professional and private lives of four rookie detectives, the Young Lions, of South West 101, an inner city Sydney police station.The program rated poorly...

David Brooks TV Series - 1 episode
2006 The Prince & Me II: The Royal Wedding
The Prince and Me 2: The Royal Wedding
The Prince and Me 2: The Royal Wedding is a 2006 romantic comedy film, directed by Catherine Cyran, which was released direct-to-video. It stars Luke Mably as Prince Edvard, Kam Heskin as Paige Morgan, and Clemency Burton-Hill as Princess Kirsten....

Prince Albert Straight-to-Video release
2009 Packed to the Rafters
Packed to the Rafters
Packed to the Rafters is an Australian family-orientated television series which premiered on the Seven Network on Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 8:30 pm. The drama series features a mix of lighthearted comedy woven through the plot. It revolves around the Rafter family facing work pressures and...

Bill Tonks TV Series - 1 episode

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