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  1. Dec 27, 2022 · In the opening scene of the 1950 film "Sunset Boulevard," the cynical screenwriter turned gigolo Joe Gillis lies floating in a swimming pool, blood seeping from his lifeless body. Thirty-one years later, the actor who played Gillis, William Holden, met his end. But it wasn't a bullet from the gun of an aging movie queen that tragically ended ...

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  2. William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.Holden 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 or Anthology Series or Movie for the television miniseries The Blue Knight (1973).

  3. Nov 12, 2021 · On or around Nov. 12, 1981, William Holden drunkenly slipped on a rug and hit his head against a table. He bled to death from a forehead wound. Really. That’s the true story. Still, I feel in my ...

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  4. The Dunnes gave their party every othe. Actress Stefanie Powers, best known for starring in the TV show "Hart to Hart," has written a memoir, "One From the Hart," looking back at her road to fame ...

  5. Nov 17, 1981 · William Holden, the film star who won an Oscar in 1953 for his role in ''Stalag 17'' and who represented the manly, straightforward, romantic figure during a career of more than 40 years, was ...

  6. Nov 12, 2013 · News Obituaries. William Holden: Hollywood Icon. ... Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. in O’Fallon, Ill., the son of a schoolteacher and a wealthy industrial chemist. The family moved ...

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  8. Apr 23, 2024 · William Holden, American film star who perfected the role of the cynic who acts heroically in spite of his scorn or pessimism. His best-known movies, most from the 1950s, included Golden Boy, Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, and Network.

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