1950 — 1976

William Holden

Born Apr 17, 1918April 17, 1918·Died Nov 12, 1981November 12, 1981·63 years

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.

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Selected works

You might know them from

Sunset Boulevard

1950

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

Network

1976

By the numbers

Filmography