William Holden

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

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