- Cartoonist Chester Gould drew his comic-strip character Dick Tracy based on Holt's granite-jawed profile.
- One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- The only time he, Tim Holt and Jennifer Holt worked together was in 1946 when the three appeared together on a CBS radio program entitled "All-Star Theatre", a country-flavored show featuring Western music by Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage with a dramatic sketch. The Holts played father, son and daughter.
- It is reported that he was cartoonist Al Capp's favorite actor, and Capp drew his bumbling detective character Fearless Fosdick to closely resemble Holt.
- Became a life member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California on July 13, 1928 based on his direct descent from Capt. John Marshall, 1700-1795. His General Society membership number was 7810 and his California Society membership number was 364.
- Father of actors Jennifer Holt and Tim Holt, with the latter of whom he bit-played in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
- Ex-father-in-law of William Bakewell.
- Great grandfather of Shaeffer Holt.
- He was considered for the role of Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind" (1939).
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