Biography: life and films
William Holden was an American actor whose birth name was William Franklin Beedle Jr.. He was born in O'Fallon, Illinois, USA on 17th April 1918 and died in Santa Monica, California, USA on 16th November 1981, aged 63.His best films as an actor include Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stalag 17 (1953), David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Carol Reed's The Key (1958) and Sidney Lumet's Network (1976).
William Holden appeared in 90 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: George Seaton (4 films), Billy Wilder (4), Edward H. Griffith (3), William Dieterle (2), Rudolph Maté (2), Richard Quine (2), Peter Collinson (2), Otto Preminger (2), Mervyn LeRoy (2), Lloyd Bacon (2), John Farrow (2), George Marshall (2) and Blake Edwards (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (50 films), comedy (22), War (12), Western (11), romance (9), comedy-romance (7), Thriller (7), comedy-drama (4) and Fantasy (2).
Our average rating for William Holden over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Babs (1920) [a]
The Fortune Hunter (1920) [a]
Road House (1928) [a]
Three Weekends (1928) [a]
Dynamite (1929) [a]
Fast Life (1929) [a]
His Captive Woman (1929) [a]
The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929) [a]
The Trespasser (1929) [a]
Weary River (1929) [a]
Framed (1930) [a]
Holiday (1930) [a]
Not So Dumb (1930) [a]
Numbered Men (1930) [a]
Three Faces East (1930) [a]
What a Widow! (1930) [a]
Charlie Chan Carries On (1931) [a]
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) [a]
Six Cylinder Love (1931) [a]
The Man Who Came Back (1931) [a]
Prison Farm (1938) [a]
Golden Boy (1939) [a]
Invisible Stripes (1939) [a]
Arizona (1940) [a]
Our Town (1940) [a]
Those Were the Days! (1940) [a]
I Wanted Wings (1941) [a]
Texas (1941) [a]
Meet the Stewarts (1942) [a]
The Fleet's In (1942) [a]
The Remarkable Andrew (1942) [a]
Young and Willing (1943) [a]
Blaze of Noon (1947) [a]
Dear Ruth (1947) [a]
Variety Girl (1947) [a]
Apartment for Peggy (1948) [a]
Rachel and the Stranger (1948) [a]
The Man from Colorado (1948) [a]
Dear Wife (1949) [a]
Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) [a]
Streets of Laredo (1949) [a]
Father Is a Bachelor (1950) [a]
Union Station (1950) [a]
Force of Arms (1951) [a]
Submarine Command (1951) [a]
Boots Malone (1952) [a]
The Turning Point (1952) [a]
Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953) [a]
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) [a]
Stalag 17 (1953) [a]
Executive Suite (1954) [a]
Forever Female (1954) [a]
Sabrina (1954) [a]
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) [a]
The Country Girl (1954) [a]
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) [a]
Picnic (1955) [a]
The Proud and Profane (1956) [a]
Toward the Unknown (1956) [a]
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) [a]
The Key (1958) [a]
The Horse Soldiers (1959) [a]
The World of Suzie Wong (1960) [a]
Satan Never Sleeps (1962) [a]
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) [a]
The Lion (1962) [a]
Paris When It Sizzles (1964) [a]
The 7th Dawn (1964) [a]
Alvarez Kelly (1966) [a]
The Devil's Brigade (1968) [a]
The Wild Bunch (1969) [a]
Wild Rovers (1971) [a]
The Revengers (1972) [a]
Breezy (1973) [a]
Open Season (1974) [a]
The Towering Inferno (1974) [a]
Network (1976) [a]
Fedora (1978) [a]
Ashanti (1979) [a]
Escape to Athena (1979) [a]
The Earthling (1980) [a]
When Time Ran Out... (1980) [a]
S.O.B. (1981) [a]
The best films of Ingmar Bergman
The very best of German cinema
