William Holden
Birthday: 1918-04-17
Place of Birth: O'Fallon, Illinois, USA
Biography: William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor. He 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.
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The Wild Bunch
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappea...
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Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...
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Stalag 17
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...
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Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head ...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
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The Country Girl
An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, y...
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Damien - Omen II
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his we...
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Network
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he anno...
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The Towering Inferno
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, thr...
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Paris When It Sizzles
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest...
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Sabrina
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily runni...
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Our Town
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and ...
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The Devil's Brigade
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called ...
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Born Yesterday
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congr...
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The Making of 'Network'
An engrossing feature-length documentary about the making of Sidney Lumet's classic film "Network."...
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Casino Royale
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thin...
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S.O.B.
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic...
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Breezy
A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensi...
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Arizona
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when ...
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
A U.S. Navy pilot and his squad are assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges deep behind...
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Wild Rovers
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods ...
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Alvarez Kelly
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with catt...
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The Counterfeit Traitor
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infil...
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The Proud and Profane
In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley arrives on the South Pacific island...
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Executive Suite
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to ...
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The Man from Colorado
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of the...
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Union Station
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station....
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The Turning Point
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop fath...
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The Dark Past
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recu...
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Rachel and the Stranger
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger ...
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the...
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Golden Boy
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter...
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When Time Ran Out...
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues ...
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The Horse Soldiers
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center....
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Picnic
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight ...
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The Earthling
Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness...
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Open Season
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendenc...
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The Fleet's In
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous ...
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The Moon Is Blue
Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claimin...
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21 Hours at Munich
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Muni...
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspo...
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Fedora
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure ...
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Escape from Fort Bravo
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort....
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The Christmas Tree
A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every w...
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Texas
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. The...
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Ashanti
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment,...
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The Lion
Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather...
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The 7th Dawn
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Se...
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The Remarkable Andrew
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budge...
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Meet the Stewarts
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget....
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The Key
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged All...
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Young and Willing
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' f...
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Dear Wife
In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, ...
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Dear Ruth
Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins,...
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Force of Arms
During the winter of 1943, the German Army halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; ba...
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Submarine Command
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew m...
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The Revengers
The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of m...
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Satan Never Sleeps
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him al...
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I Wanted Wings
Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army ...
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Variety Girl
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char...
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir...
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Streets of Laredo
Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rus...
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Forever Female
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore....
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Toward the Unknown
Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service ...
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The Blue Knight
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 ye...
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Those Were the Days!
At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year ...
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Father Is a Bachelor
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: Janua...
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Apartment for Peggy
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is chan...
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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (195...
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Blaze of Noon
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs...
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The Girl on The Roof
A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect...
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Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective provides some insightful commentary of how far we've come concern...
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William Holden: The Golden Boy
It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance....
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Edith Head: The Paramount Years
A tribute to the legendary costume designer Edith Head during her years providing costumes for the f...
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Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant soph...
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Grace Kelly: The American Princess
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death ...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
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Sally's Beauty Spot
A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial differ...
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Million Dollar Legs
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie F...
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Sad?
Set in the mid sixties and shot with more black than white, ‘SAD?’ is a dark ten minute film that ex...
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Prison Farm
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy f...
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Escape to Athena
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They...
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You Can Change The World
Comedian Jack Benny has his butler, Rochester, call several of his celebrity friends over to the hou...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara S...
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The World of Suzie Wong
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her....
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Reconnaissance Pilot
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World...
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Wings Up
Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Force...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...
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Invisible Stripes
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison....
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
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Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, un...
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