William Holden
Acting
Born: April 17, 1918 · O'Fallon, Illinois, USA
Died: November 12, 1981 (aged 63)
Highest Rated
Biography
William Holden was an American actor. He 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.
Known for
Sunset Boulevard
1950
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Network
1976
Sabrina
1954
The Wild Bunch
1969
The Towering Inferno
1974
Casino Royale
1967
Damien - Omen II
1978
Stalag 17
1953
The Horse Soldiers
1959
I Love Lucy
1951
Paris When It Sizzles
1964
Photos (13)
Movies (78)
Sunset Boulevard
Joe Gillis
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Cmdr. Shears
Casino Royale
Ransome
Network
Max Schumacher
The Towering Inferno
Jim Duncan
Damien - Omen II
Richard Thorn
The Wild Bunch
Pike Bishop
Sabrina
David Larrabee
The Horse Soldiers
Major 'Hank' Kendall
Stalag 17
J.J. Sefton
Born Yesterday
Paul Verrall
Breezy
Frank Harmon
Picnic
Hal Carter
Escape to Athena
POW (uncredited)
Satan Never Sleeps
Father O'Banion
Paris When It Sizzles
Richard Benson
The Country Girl
Bernie Dodd
Escape from Fort Bravo
Captain Roper
Fedora
Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Lt. Harry Brubaker
21 Hours at Munich
Manfred Schreiber
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Mark Elliott
Arizona
Peter Muncie
The Devil's Brigade
Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick
Alvarez Kelly
Alvarez Kelly
The 7th Dawn
Major Ferris
Executive Suite
McDonald Walling
The Dark Past
Al Walker
The Key
Capt. David Ross
The Christmas Tree
Laurent Ségur
The Man from Colorado
Capt. Del Stewart
Texas
Dan Thomas
Rachel and the Stranger
David “Big Davey" Harvey
The Counterfeit Traitor
Eric Erickson
Union Station
Lt. William Calhoun
Lykke og krone
1962
The World of Suzie Wong
Robert Lomax
When Time Ran Out...
Shelby Gilmore
Open Season
Hal Wolkowski
Reconnaissance Pilot
Lt. Packard A. Cummings
Invisible Stripes
Tim Taylor
Ashanti
Jim Sandell
Streets of Laredo
Jim Dawkins
The Proud and Profane
Lt. Col. Colin Black
Variety Girl
William Holden
Wild Rovers
Ross Bodine
The Earthling
Patrick Foley
The Turning Point
Jerry McKibbon
The Revengers
John Benedict
S.O.B.
Tim Culley
Our Town
Georges Gibbs
I Wanted Wings
Al Ludlow
Submarine Command
Lt. Cmdr. Ken White
The Moon Is Blue
Donald Gresham
Golden Boy
Joe Bonaparte
Toward the Unknown
Maj. Lincoln Bond
The Blue Knight
Bumper Morgan
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Donald Gresham (archive footage) (uncredited)
Force of Arms
Sgt. Joe 'Pete' Peterson
Forever Female
Stanley Krown
The Fleet's In
Casey Kirby
The Lion
Robert Hayward
The Girl on The Roof
A tourist
Young and Willing
Norman Reese
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Dick Richmond
Blaze of Noon
Colin McDonald
The Remarkable Andrew
Andrew Long
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
(archive footage)
Those Were the Days!
P. J. "Petey" Simmons
Father Is a Bachelor
Johnny Rutledge
Apartment for Peggy
Jason Taylor
Meet the Stewarts
Michael "Mike" Stewart
Boots Malone
Boots Malone
Dear Wife
Bill Seacroft
Sally's Beauty Spot
Robert Lomax (archive footage)
Million Dollar Legs
Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited)
Prison Farm
Prisoner
Dear Ruth
Lt. William Seacroft
TV Shows (3)
Self / Appearances (26)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 2 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 5 eps
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self · 2 eps
What's My Line?
Self · 1 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 1 eps
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Set of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' · 1 eps
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self (archive footage)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Self (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Self (archive footage)
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Self - Actor (archive footage)
You Can Change The World
Self
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Network'
Self (archive footage)
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Self - Guest (uncredited)
Wings Up
Himself
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Self (archive footage)
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Self
William Holden: The Golden Boy
Self (archive footage)
...On Seeing Film
Self