The Devil's Brigade
1968
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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.
- Andrew Amelinckx
After his death, Powers set up the William Holden Wildlife Foundation at Holden's Mount Kenya Game Ranch. Death. According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's autopsy report, Holden bled to death in his apartment in Santa Monica, California, on November 12, 1981, after lacerating his forehead by slipping on a rug while intoxicated and hitting a ...
Apr 23, 2024 · William Holden (born April 17, 1918, O’Fallon, Illinois, U.S.—found dead November 16, 1981, Santa Monica, California) was an American film star who perfected the role of the cynic who acts heroically in spite of his scorn or pessimism.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nov 17, 1981 · William Holden, whose handsome face and easy, masculine manner made him the quintessential American in many movies, was found dead Monday morning in his apartment in Santa Monica. He was 63. He...
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...
Nov 17, 1981 · LOS ANGELES -- Oscar-winning actor William Holden was killed in a drunken fall at his beachfront apartment, in which he slipped on a throw rug and smashed his head on a bedside table,...
He still had a couple more good performances in him, in The Towering Inferno (1974) and Network (1976), until his shock death from blood loss due to a fall at his apartment while intoxicated.
