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William Holden
Acting
Born: April 17, 1918
O'Fallon, Illinois, USA
Biography
William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor. Holden 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Holden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Casino Royale
as Ransome
Sabrina
as David Larrabee
Our Town
as Georges Gibbs
Network
as Max Schumacher
The Wild Bunch
as Pike Bishop
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Cmdr. Shears
Sunset Boulevard
as Joe Gillis
The Towering Inferno
as Jim Duncan
Damien - Omen II
as Richard Thorn
The Horse Soldiers
as Major 'Hank' Kendall
