William Holden
Born: 1918-04-17 in O'Fallon, Illinois, USA
Died: 1981-11-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in his career (winning Best Actor in 1953 for "Stalag 17"), and also won the Emmy Award for Best Actor for "The Blue Knight" in 1974. He is also known for his roles in "Sunset Boulevard" (1950), "Sabrina" (1954), and "Network" (1976). 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.
Filmography
2018
- Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2017
- The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective as Self (archive footage)
2006
- The Making of 'Network' as Self (archive footage)
- Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2004
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Edith Head: The Paramount Years as (archive footage)
2000
- The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line as Self (archive footage)
1996
- Sad? as (archive footage)
1993
- Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Donald Gresham (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Sally's Beauty Spot as Robert Lomax (archive footage)
1989
- William Holden: The Golden Boy as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Grace Kelly: The American Princess as Self (archive footage)
1981
- S.O.B. as Tim Culley
1980
- When Time Ran Out... as Shelby Gilmore
- The Earthling as Patrick Foley
1979
- Escape to Athena as POW (uncredited)
- Ashanti as Jim Sandell
1978
- Ciné regards as Self
- Damien - Omen II as Richard Thorn
- Fedora as Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler
- Regie: Billy Wilder as Self
1976
- Network as Max Schumacher
- 21 Hours at Munich as Manfred Schreiber
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy as (archive footage)
1974
- The Towering Inferno as Jim Duncan
- Open Season as Hal Wolkowski
1973
- The Blue Knight as Bumper Morgan
- Breezy as Frank Harmon
- The Blue Knight as Bumper Morgan
1972
- The Revengers as John Benedict
1971
- Wild Rovers as Ross Bodine
1969
- The Wild Bunch as Pike Bishop
- The Christmas Tree as Laurent Ségur
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- The Devil's Brigade as Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick
- The Dean Martin Christmas Show as Self - Guest (uncredited)
1967
- Casino Royale as Ransome
1966
- Alvarez Kelly as Alvarez Kelly
1964
- Paris When It Sizzles as Richard Benson
- The 7th Dawn as Major Ferris
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Counterfeit Traitor as Eric Erickson
- Lykke og krone as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Satan Never Sleeps as Father O'Banion
- The Lion as Robert Hayward
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1960
- The World of Suzie Wong as Robert Lomax
1959
- The Horse Soldiers as Major 'Hank' Kendall
1958
- The Key as Capt. David Ross
- The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant as Self
- ...On Seeing Film as Self
1957
- The Bridge on the River Kwai as Cmdr. Shears
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Set of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
- The Proud and Profane as Lt. Col. Colin Black
- Toward the Unknown as Maj. Lincoln Bond
1955
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing as Mark Elliott
- Picnic as Hal Carter
1954
- Sabrina as David Larrabee
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri as Lt. Harry Brubaker
- Executive Suite as McDonald Walling
- The Country Girl as Bernie Dodd
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Escape from Fort Bravo as Captain Roper
- Stalag 17 as J.J. Sefton
- The Moon Is Blue as Donald Gresham
- The Girl on The Roof as A tourist
- Forever Female as Stanley Krown
1952
- The Turning Point as Jerry McKibbon
- Boots Malone as Boots Malone
1951
- I Love Lucy as William Holden
- Submarine Command as Lt. Cmdr. Ken White
- Force of Arms as Sgt. Joe 'Pete' Peterson
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- The Jack Benny Program as William Holden
- Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis
- Born Yesterday as Paul Verrall
- You Can Change The World as Self
- Union Station as Lt. William Calhoun
- Father Is a Bachelor as Johnny Rutledge
1949
- Miss Grant Takes Richmond as Dick Richmond
- Streets of Laredo as Jim Dawkins
- Dear Wife as Bill Seacroft
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Man from Colorado as Capt. Del Stewart
- Rachel and the Stranger as David “Big Davey" Harvey
- The Dark Past as Al Walker
- Apartment for Peggy as Jason Taylor
1947
- Variety Girl as William Holden
- Blaze of Noon as Colin McDonald
- Dear Ruth as Lt. William Seacroft
1943
- Young and Willing as Norman Reese
- Wings Up as Himself
- Reconnaissance Pilot as Lt. Packard A. Cummings
1942
- The Fleet's In as Casey Kirby
- Meet the Stewarts as Michael "Mike" Stewart
- The Remarkable Andrew as Andrew Long
1941
- I Wanted Wings as Al Ludlow
- Texas as Dan Thomas
1940
- Arizona as Peter Muncie
- Our Town as Georges Gibbs
- Those Were the Days! as P. J. "Petey" Simmons
1939
- Invisible Stripes as Tim Taylor
- Golden Boy as Joe Bonaparte
- Million Dollar Legs as Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited)
1938
- Prison Farm as Prisoner