Profile
William Holden
Actor
Male
Born
Apr 17, 1918
Hometown
O'fallon, Illinois
Died
Nov 12, 1981
Death Place
Santa Monica, Cal...
Other Names
Beedle, William F...
William Holden was an American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974. One of the most popular and well known movie stars of all time, Holden was one of the biggest box office draws of the… Read More
Romance
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China MachadoDated 1959
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Erica BeerFling
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Patricia StaufferDated
Family
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William Holden
d.1981
parents
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William Franklin Beedle, Sr.Father
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Mary Blanche BallMother
siblings
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Richard P. BeedleBrother, Age 88
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Robert Westfield BeedleBrother, d.1945
children
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Peter Westfield HoldenSon, Age 69
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Scott Porter HoldenSon, Age 67
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Bold Exits; Designer Knockoffs; An Era Ends South Coast TodayGoogle News - Sep 03, 2011
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What's On TodayNYTimes - Sep 03, 2011
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'Explosive' Kennedy Tapes To Reveal All Hindustan TimesGoogle News - Sep 02, 2011
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Around Town: Steven Spielberg And A Rare 'Trip To The Moon' Los Angeles TimesGoogle News - Sep 01, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1918
Birth
Born on April 17, 1918.
TEENAGE
1937
19 Years Old
Rather, he was spotted by a talent scout from Paramount Pictures in 1937 while playing the part of an 80-year-old man, Marie Curie's father-in-law, in a play at the Playbox, a separate and private theatre owned by Pasadena Playhouse director Gilmor Brown.
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TWENTIES
1941
23 Years Old
Holden was married to actress Ardis Ankerson (stage name Brenda Marshall) from 1941 until their divorce (after many long separations) in 1971.
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1945
27 Years Old
His younger brother, Robert W. "Bobbie" Beedle, was a Navy fighter pilot who was killed in action in World War II, on January 5, 1945.
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THIRTIES
1950
32 Years Old
Beginning in 1950, his career took off when Billy Wilder tapped him to star as the down-at-the-heels screenwriter Joe Gillis, who is taken in by faded silent-screen star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) in Sunset Boulevard, for which Holden earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination.
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1952
34 Years Old
Holden was best man at the marriage of his friend Ronald Reagan to Nancy Davis in 1952; however, he never involved himself in politics.
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In 1954, Holden was featured on the cover of Life.
1957
39 Years Old
With the pinnacle of his career in 1957 with The Bridge on the River Kwai, Holden starred in a number of films during the 1960s which were not critically acclaimed such as Paris When It Sizzles (1964), also co-starring Audrey Hepburn, which he was forced to do by studio contracts.
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FORTIES
1966
48 Years Old
While in Italy, Holden killed another driver in a 1966 drunk driving incident.
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FIFTIES
In 1969, Holden made a comeback when he starred in director Sam Peckinpah's graphically violent Western The Wild Bunch, winning much acclaim.
1972
54 Years Old
In 1972, Holden began a nine-year relationship with actress Stefanie Powers which sparked her interest in animal welfare.
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1974
56 Years Old
In 1974 Holden won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his portrayal of a cynical, tough veteran LAPD street cop in the television film The Blue Knight, based upon the best-selling Joseph Wambaugh novel of the same name.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1980
62 Years Old
In 1980, Holden appeared in The Earthling with popular child actor Ricky Schroder, playing a loner dying of cancer who goes to the Australian outback to end his days, meets a young boy whose parents have been killed in an accident, and teaches him how to survive.
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On November 12 1981, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's autopsy report, Holden was alone and intoxicated in his apartment in Santa Monica, California, when he slipped on a rug, severely lacerated his forehead on a teak bedside table, and bled to death.
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