Joseph J. Holton (1890-1958) was a talent scout for Twentieth-Century Fox Pictures in Hollywood and a test director. He was elected to The Lambs in 1936.
He was born 16 December 1890 in Newburgh, New York. A son of immigrants from Northern Ireland, Holton worked as a school teacher in Hackensack, New Jersey. In 1917 Holton enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in France with the 648th Aero Squadron. He was discharged as a sergeant first class in 1919.
Holton began working in motion pictures in the 1920s in New York. In 1930 he married Vera E. Kirschbaum. They had a daughter, also named Vera. The family moved to California in the 1930s where he worked for Twentieth-Century Fox.
In 1944, Lamb John F. Hamilton sketched Holton at The Lambs. This drawing is in the Lambs Foundation Collection in the clubhouse.
He retired to the Motion Picture Country Home (today the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital), an assisted living facility in Los Angeles. Holton died of cirrhosis of the liver on 18 February 1958. He was 67.