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  1. William Holden. Actor: Stalag 17. Billy Wilder proclaimed William Holden to be "the ideal motion picture actor". For almost four decades, the handsome, affable 'Golden Holden' was among Hollywood's most durable and engaging stars. He was born William Franklin Beedle Jr., one of three sons to a high school English teacher, Mary Blanche (Ball ...

  2. 5 days ago · 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.

  3. 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...

  4. Biography. William Holden was born William Franklin Beedle, Jr., in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of William Franklin Beedle (1891–1967), an industrial chemist, and his wife Mary Blanche Ball (1898–1990), a schoolteacher. He had two younger brothers, Robert Westfield Beedle (1921–1944) and Richard P. Beedle (1924–1964).

  5. Nov 12, 2021 · On Nov. 12, 1981, William Holden died while running through Central Park with his hands in his pockets. An unruly tree stump — or was it a warped cobblestone? — caught his foot, and he fell on...

  6. 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.

  7. Feb 23, 2016 · The Hollywood Collection. 134K subscribers. Subscribed. 9.8K. 1.9M views 8 years ago. It was said of him that in more than seventy films, he never once gave a bad performance. He was a charming and...

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