William Holden

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-04-17 (63 years old)

Deathday

1981-11-12

Place of Birth

O'Fallon, Illinois, USA

William Holden

Biography

William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1953 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1950s, he was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961) and appeared on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years…100 Stars list as #25.   Description above from the Wikipedia article William Holden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1969

The Wild Bunch

as Pike Bishop

1950

Sunset Boulevard

as Joe Gillis

1953

Stalag 17

as Sgt. J.J. Sefton

1986

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown

as Charlie Brown (voice) (archive sound)

1957

1954

The Country Girl

as Bernie Dodd

1978

Damien - Omen II

as Richard Thorn

1976

Network

as Max Schumacher

1974

1964

Paris When It Sizzles

as Richard Benson

1954

Sabrina

as David Larrabee

1940

Our Town

as Georges Gibbs

1968

The Devil's Brigade

as Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick

1950

Born Yesterday

as Paul Verrall

2006

The Making of 'Network'

as Self (archive footage)

1967

Casino Royale

as Ransome

1981

S.O.B.

as Tim Culley

1973

Breezy

as Frank Harmon

1940

Arizona

as Peter Muncie

1954

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

as Lt. Harry Brubaker

1971

Wild Rovers

as Ross Bodine

1966

Alvarez Kelly

as Alvarez Kelly

1962

The Counterfeit Traitor

as Eric Erickson

1956

The Proud and Profane

as Lt. Col. Colin Black

1954

Executive Suite

as McDonald Walling

1948

The Man from Colorado

as Capt. Del Stewart

1950

Union Station

as Lt. William Calhoun

1952

The Turning Point

as Jerry McKibbon

1948

Rachel and the Stranger

as David “Big Davey" Harvey

1948

The Dark Past

as Al Walker

1949

1939

Golden Boy

as Joe Bonaparte

1968

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

as Self - Guest (uncredited)

1980

When Time Ran Out...

as Shelby Gilmore

1959

The Horse Soldiers

as Major 'Hank' Kendall

1955

Picnic

as Hal Carter

1980

The Earthling

as Patrick Foley

1974

Open Season

as Hal Wolkowski

1942

The Fleet's In

as Casey Kirby

1953

The Moon Is Blue

as Donald Gresham

1976

21 Hours at Munich

as Manfred Schreiber

1978

Fedora

as Barry Detweiler

1953

Escape from Fort Bravo

as Captain Roper

1969

The Christmas Tree

as Laurent Ségur

1941

Texas

as Dan Thomas

1979

Ashanti

as Jim Sandell

1962

The Lion

as Robert Hayward

1964

The 7th Dawn

as Major Ferris

1942

The Remarkable Andrew

as Andrew Long

1942

Meet the Stewarts

as Michael "Mike" Stewart

1958

The Key

as Capt. David Ross

1943

Young and Willing

as Norman Reese

1949

Dear Wife

as Bill Seacroft

1947

Dear Ruth

as Lt. William Seacroft

1951

Force of Arms

as Sgt. Joe 'Pete' Peterson

1972

The Revengers

as John Benedict

1951

Submarine Command

as Lt. Cmdr. Ken White

1962

Satan Never Sleeps

as Father O'Banion

1947

Variety Girl

as William Holden

1941

I Wanted Wings

as Al Ludlow

2018

1949

Streets of Laredo

as Jim Dawkins

1953

Forever Female

as Stanley Krown

1956

Toward the Unknown

as Maj. Lincoln Bond

1973

The Blue Knight

as Bumper Morgan

1952

Boots Malone

as Boots Malone

1940

Those Were the Days!

as P. J. "Petey" Simmons

1950

Father Is a Bachelor

as Johnny Rutledge

1948

Apartment for Peggy

as Jason Taylor

1947

Blaze of Noon

as Colin McDonald

1953

2009

Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective

as Self (archive footage)

1989

William Holden: The Golden Boy

as Self (archive footage)

2002

1993

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

as Self (archive footage)

1987

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

as Self (archive footage)

1997

1990

Sally's Beauty Spot

as Robert Lomax (archive footage)

1939

Million Dollar Legs

as Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited)

1996

Sad?

as (archive footage)

1938

Prison Farm

as Prisoner

1979

Escape to Athena

as POW (uncredited)

1991

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

as Self (archive footage)

1960

1943

Reconnaissance Pilot

as Lt. Packard A. Cummings

1943

Wings Up

as Himself

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Donald Gresham (archive footage) (uncredited)

1939

Invisible Stripes

as Tim Taylor

2006

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2018

Walking to Nam Kok Hotel

as Robert Lomax (archive footage)

1959

Zwischen Glück und Krone

as Self (archive footage)

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