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William Holden

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Also known as William Franklin Beedle Jr., William Franklin Holden, William Beedle Jr., William Franklin Beedle, William Beedle

American actor (1918–1981)

OverviewAI-generated

William Holden was an American actor, television actor, and military personnel who served in World War II. Born in O'Fallon, Illinois, in 1918, he began his work period in 1939 and was educated at Pasadena City College. He was a member of the Republican Party and had three children. His spouse was Brenda Marshall, and he had an unmarried partner, Stefanie Powers.

Holden received an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Among his works are *Libertine*, *Second Chances*, *Silver and Gold*, *Den of Thieves*, and *Candle in the Dark*. He died in Santa Monica in 1981 from an accidental death.

Synthesized by Vinony from 41 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
15

Top works

  • Libertine
  • Second Chances
  • Silver and Gold
  • Den of Thieves
  • Candle in the Dark

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Film & TV

Acting · O'Fallon, Illinois, USA

William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) 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

  • Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2018
  • The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive)2017
  • Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective — Self (archive footage)2009
  • The Making of 'Network' — Self (archive footage)2006
  • Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess — Self - Actor (archive footage)2006
  • Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self (archive footage)2004
  • Edith Head: The Paramount Years — (archive footage)2002
  • The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' — Self (archive footage)2000
  • Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line — Self (archive footage)1997
  • Sad? — (archive footage)1996

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1918
Active to
1981
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Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
232
Total plays
867

William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974. One of the most popular and well known movie stars of all time, Holden was 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 number 25. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 63,006x

  2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 44,848x

  3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

    · 1983 · cited 39,579x

  4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,950x

  5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

    · 1958 · cited 28,686x

via Crossref · CC0

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Encyclopedic overview

William Franklin Holden (né Beedle; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for The Blue Knight (1973).

Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), Picnic (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Network (1976). He was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classical Hollywood cinema.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Holden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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