William Holden is an American actor born the April 17th 1918 with O' Fallon in the Illinois (the United States) and deceased the October 16th 1981 with Santa Monica in California (the United States). William Holden had a addiction with alcohol, it fell into the staircases while being wounded seriously. Not having been able to call the Help!, it was found died four days after its death.

Biography

Notoriety came to this young first to the anonymous physique with maturity and the role of a deposed scenario writer and gigolo in Sunset Boulevard (1950). It accepted the Oscar of the best actor in 1953 for Stalag 17 and was named in the same category in 1951 for Sunset boulevard and in 1977 for Network .

Selective catalog of films

• 1939 : the Slave with the hands of gold ( Golden delicious Servant boy ) of Rouben Mamoulian with Barbara Stanwyck

• 1939: Invisible Stripes of Lloyd Bacon
• 1940: a small town without stories ( Our Town ) of Sam Wood
• 1941: Texas of George Marshall
• 1942: The Remarkable Andrew of Stuart Heisler
• 1942: Meet The Stewarts of Alfred E. Green
• 1948: the Sorrow of Retaliation ( The Man from Colorado ) of Henry Levin
• 1948: Love under the Roofs ( Apartment for Peggy ) of George Seaton
• 1948: The Dark Past of Rudolph Subdued
• 1950: Boulevard of the twilight ( Sunset Boulevard ) of Billy Wilder with Gloria Swanson
• 1950: How the spirit comes to the women ( Born Yesterday ) from George Cukor with Judy Holliday
• 1952: the Secret Vocation ( Boots Malone ) of William Dieterle
• 1953: Stalag 17 of Billy Wilder
• 1953: the Moon was blue ( The Moon Is Blue ) of Otto Preminger
• 1953: the eternal female ( Forever Female ) of Irving To grate
• 1954: Sabrina of Billy Wilder
• 1954: the Tower of the ambitious ( Executive Continuation ) of Robert Wise
• 1955: Picnic of Joshua Logan
• 1956: a splendid bastard ( The Proud and Layman ) of George Seaton
• 1957: the Bridge of the river Kwaï ( The Bridge one To rivet Kwai ) David Lean
• 1959: the Riders ( The Horse Soldiers ) of John Ford
• 1966: Alvarez Kelly of Edward Dmytryk
• 1967: Casino Royal
• 1969: the wild Horde ( The Wild Bunch ) of Sam Peckinpah
• 1969: the Christmas tree of Terence Young
• 1973: Breezy of Clint Eastwood
• 1974: the Infernal Tower ( The Towering Inferno ) of John Guillermin and Irwin Allen
• 1976: Control on the TV (Network) of Sidney Lumet with Faye Dunaway

Rewards

• Nomination Better Actor for Boulevard of the twilight (Sunset Boulevard) (1951)
• Oscar of the best actor for Stalag 17 (1954)
• Nomination Better Actor for Network (1977)

Quotations

• "I am a whore, all the actors are whores. We sell our bodies with the more offrant".

Zh-yue: 威廉荷頓