- He passed away only months after the release of his final film, Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty", in which he replaced Hans Conried, the performance model and original actor, as the voice of Princess Aurora's father for the film's final version, King Stefan.
- Outlived both his sons.
- Father of Phillips Holmes, Ralph Holmes and daughter Madeline.
- He replaced Hans Conried for the voice role of King Stefan in Sleeping Beauty (1959), resulting in the voice mystery of Lord Duke.
- Holmes, in 1915, made a spoken word recording of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Boots." The chilling recording was used for its psychological effect in U.S. military SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) schools. In 2025, 110 years after its recording, his vocal performance was used in the official trailer for the film 28 Years Later (2025).
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