William Holden
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: April 17, 1918
Place of Birth: O'Fallon, Illinois, USA
Known For
Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Apartment for Peggy
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
I Love Lucy
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
Boots Malone
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Network
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
The Jack Benny Program
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Stalag 17
After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Donald Gresham (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Robert Lomax (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Charlie Brown (voice) (archive sound)
as Tim Culley
as Patrick Foley
as Shelby Gilmore
as POW (uncredited)
as Jim Sandell
as Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler
as Richard Thorn
as Manfred Schreiber
as Max Schumacher
as Jim Duncan
as Hal Wolkowski
as Frank Harmon
as Bumper Morgan
as Bumper Morgan
as John Benedict
as Ross Bodine
as Laurent Ségur
as Pike Bishop
as Self - Guest (uncredited)
as Self - Guest
as Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick
as Ransome
as Alvarez Kelly
as Major Ferris
as Richard Benson
as Robert Hayward
as Eric Erickson
as Father O'Banion
as Self
as Robert Lomax
as Major 'Hank' Kendall
as Capt. David Ross
as Cmdr. Shears
as Maj. Lincoln Bond
as Self - Set of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
as Lt. Col. Colin Black
as Hal Carter
as Mark Elliott
as Bernie Dodd
as Lt. Harry Brubaker
as David Larrabee
as McDonald Walling
as A tourist
as Captain Roper
as Stanley Krown
as Donald Gresham
as Sgt. J.J. Sefton
as Self
as Jerry McKibbon
as Boots Malone
as Lt. Cmdr. Ken White
as William Holden
as Sgt. Joe 'Pete' Peterson
as Paul Verrall
as William Holden
as Lt. William Calhoun
as Self
as Joe Gillis
as Self
as Johnny Rutledge
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Bill Seacroft
as Dick Richmond
as Jim Dawkins
as Al Walker
as Jason Taylor
as David “Big Davey" Harvey
as Capt. Del Stewart
as Self
as William Holden
as Lt. William Seacroft
as Colin McDonald
as Himself
as Norman Reese
as Lt. Packard A. Cummings
as Michael "Mike" Stewart
as Andrew Long
as Casey Kirby
as Dan Thomas
as Al Ludlow
as Peter Muncie
as P. J. "Petey" Simmons
as Georges Gibbs
as Tim Taylor
as Joe Bonaparte
as Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited)
as Prisoner