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William Holden
William Franklin Holden 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).
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entertainment · American actor (1918–1981) · actor · television actor · film actor · military personnel · military officer · also William Holden, William Franklin Holden, William Beedle Jr., William Franklin Beedle, William Beedle, Holden
Born 17 April 1918 · Died 12 November 1981 · Q95002
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2026· 2 entries
Moviefone: William Holden
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: William Holden : a biography / Michelangelo Capua
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2021· 1 entry
The New York Times: The Many Deaths of William Holden Taught Me How to Be Anxious
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1981· 2 entries
After lacerating his forehead by slipping on a rug while intoxicated and hitting a bedside table
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Died 1981-11-12.
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1974· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Blue Knight (1974).
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Holden won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his portrayal of a cynical, tough veteran LAPD street cop in the television film The Blue Knight, based upon the bestselling Jos
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Holden starred with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen in the critically acclaimed disaster film The Towering Inferno, which became a box-office smash and one of the highest-grossing films of Holden's career
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1973· 1 entry
Holden starred with Kay Lenz in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood called Breezy, which was considered a box-office flop
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1972· 1 entry
Holden began a nine-year relationship with actress Stefanie Powers and sparked her interest in animal welfare
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1969· 2 entries
Holden starred in director Terence Young's family film L'Arbre de Noël, co-starring Italian actress Virna Lisi and French actor Bourvil, based on the novel of the same name by Michel Bataille
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Holden made a comeback when he starred in director Sam Peckinpah's graphically violent Western The Wild Bunch, winning much acclaim
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1962· 1 entry
But given a much delayed release; The 7th Dawn (1964) with Capucine and Susannah York, a romantic adventure set during the Malayan Emergency produced by Charles K
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1955· 1 entry
Holden appeared as a guest star on I Love Lucy as himself
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1954· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Stalag 17 (1954).
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Holden was featured on the cover of Life
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1950· 1 entry
When Billy Wilder tapped him to play a down-at-heel screenwriter taken in by a faded silent film actress (Gloria Swanson) in Sunset Boulevard
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1918· 2 entries
Born 1918-04-17.
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In O'Fallon, Illinois, son of Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball; 1898–1990), a schoolteacher, and her husband, William Franklin Beedle Sr
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