Holmes, heir to the
Fleischmann's Yeast fortune, wanted to be an actor, so his father footed the bill for him to star in the early 1950s film
Daughter of the Sun God. The movie was so bad, however, that it took nearly a decade for it to be released. By that time, the actor was already out of the business. In 1950, he acted in the musical
Careless Rapture at the
Dudley Hippodrome in
Dudley, West Midlands, England, with Barry Sinclair, Mary Allen, Arthur Hosking, Muriel Barron, Joan Norman, and Charles Gillespie in the cast.
Louella Parsons wrote that Holmes would have the top role in the film
Cocobolo, directed by Henry Herts and produced by Robert Peters. In 1953,
Hedda Hopper reported "he has a children's book to be published, and will do a TV adventure series". == Personal life ==