Biography
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Holden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer t...
Walking to Nam Kok Hotel
2018
as Robert Lomax (archive footage)
A scene from The World of Suzie Wong, in which the male protagonist walks from the Star Ferry Pier to Nam Kok Hotel in Wan Chai, is superimposed with ...

Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective provides some insightful commentary of how far we've come concerning Asian characterizations in Hollywood movies fr...

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rain...

The Making of 'Network'
2006
as Self (archive footage)
An engrossing feature-length documentary about the making of Sidney Lumet's classic film "Network."

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...

Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
as (archive footage)
A tribute to the legendary costume designer Edith Head during her years providing costumes for the films of Paramount studio which includes Sunset Bou...

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
2000
as Self (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellen...
Sad?
1996
as (archive footage)
Set in the mid sixties and shot with more black than white, ‘SAD?’ is a dark ten minute film that explores the time that we spend alone watching telev...

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication and an enduring aura of youthful innoce...

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as Donald Gresham (archive footage) (uncredited)
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
as Self (archive footage)
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.

Sally's Beauty Spot
1990
as Robert Lomax (archive footage)
A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial difference in this engaging experimental film. Off-scree...

William Holden: The Golden Boy
1989
as Self (archive footage)
It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance.

Grace Kelly: The American Princess
1987
as Self (archive footage)
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown
1986
as Charlie Brown (voice) (archive sound)
Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon...

S.O.B.
1981
as Tim Culley
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes ...

The Earthling
1980
as Patrick Foley
Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes acros...

When Time Ran Out...
1980
as Shelby Gilmore
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling fo...

Escape to Athena
1979
as POW (uncredited)
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ine...

Ashanti
1979
as Jim Sandell
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and t...

Fedora
1978
as Barry Detweiler
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.

Damien - Omen II
1978
as Richard Thorn
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military sc...

21 Hours at Munich
1976
as Manfred Schreiber
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.

Network
1976
as Max Schumacher
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during ...

The Towering Inferno
1974
as Jim Duncan
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Open Season
1974
as Hal Wolkowski
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn...

Breezy
1973
as Frank Harmon
A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have...

The Blue Knight
1973
as Bumper Morgan
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the crimi...

The Revengers
1972
as John Benedict
The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He ass...

Wild Rovers
1971
as Ross Bodine
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too ol...

The Christmas Tree
1969
as Laurent Ségur
A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.

The Wild Bunch
1969
as Pike Bishop
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

The Dean Martin Christmas Show
1968
as Self - Guest (uncredited)
A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.

The Devil's Brigade
1968
as Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite C...

Casino Royale
1967
as Ransome
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be...

Alvarez Kelly
1966
as Alvarez Kelly
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to cha...

The 7th Dawn
1964
as Major Ferris
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.

Paris When It Sizzles
1964
as Richard Benson
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been in Paris supposedly workin...

The Lion
1962
as Robert Hayward
Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her ...

The Counterfeit Traitor
1962
as Eric Erickson
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

Satan Never Sleeps
1962
as Father O'Banion
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing pr...

The World of Suzie Wong
1960
as Robert Lomax
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.

The Horse Soldiers
1959
as Major 'Hank' Kendall
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes insta...

Zwischen Glück und Krone
1959
as Self (archive footage)
The story of a young woman named Maria, who unexpectedly inherits a royal title and a castle after the death of her uncle, a king. Heavily reliant on ...

The Key
1958
as Capt. David Ross
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to...

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.

The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
as Cmdr. Shears
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence...

Toward the Unknown
1956
as Maj. Lincoln Bond
Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bon...

The Proud and Profane
1956
as Lt. Col. Colin Black
In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumst...

Picnic
1955
as Hal Carter
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a for...

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955
as Mark Elliott
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolu...

The Country Girl
1954
as Bernie Dodd
An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.

The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1954
as Lt. Harry Brubaker
A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.

Sabrina
1954
as David Larrabee
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for...

Executive Suite
1954
as McDonald Walling
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.

The Girl on The Roof
1953
as A tourist
A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Emp...

Escape from Fort Bravo
1953
as Captain Roper
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.

Forever Female
1953
as Stanley Krown
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.

The Moon Is Blue
1953
as Donald Gresham
Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedd...

Stalag 17
1953
as Sgt. J.J. Sefton
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seem...

The Turning Point
1952
as Jerry McKibbon
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't unders...

Boots Malone
1952
as Boots Malone
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.

Submarine Command
1951
as Lt. Cmdr. Ken White
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequ...

Force of Arms
1951
as Sgt. Joe 'Pete' Peterson
During the winter of 1943, the German Army halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's plato...

Born Yesterday
1950
as Paul Verrall
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-...

Union Station
1950
as Lt. William Calhoun
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try ...

Sunset Boulevard
1950
as Joe Gillis
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

You Can Change The World
1950
as Self
Comedian Jack Benny has his butler, Rochester, call several of his celebrity friends over to the house. Benny introduces them to a Catholic priest, wh...

Father Is a Bachelor
1950
as Johnny Rutledge
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living wit...

Dear Wife
1949
as Bill Seacroft
In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, for state senator in oppositio...

Miss Grant Takes Richmond
1949
as Dick Richmond
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secr...

Streets of Laredo
1949
as Jim Dawkins
Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lor...

The Dark Past
1948
as Al Walker
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be ab...

Apartment for Peggy
1948
as Jason Taylor
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be ...

Rachel and the Stranger
1948
as David “Big Davey" Harvey
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.

The Man from Colorado
1948
as Capt. Del Stewart
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to ...

Variety Girl
1947
as William Holden
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful ...

Dear Ruth
1947
as Lt. William Seacroft
Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to b...

Blaze of Noon
1947
as Colin McDonald
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires...

Wings Up
1943
as Himself
Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces.

Young and Willing
1943
as Norman Reese
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of ...

Reconnaissance Pilot
1943
as Lt. Packard A. Cummings
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enem...

Meet the Stewarts
1942
as Michael "Mike" Stewart
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

The Remarkable Andrew
1942
as Andrew Long
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he i...

The Fleet's In
1942
as Casey Kirby
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are plac...

Texas
1941
as Dan Thomas
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the ...

I Wanted Wings
1941
as Al Ludlow
Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and ...

Arizona
1940
as Peter Muncie
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But P...

Those Were the Days!
1940
as P. J. "Petey" Simmons
At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.

Our Town
1940
as Georges Gibbs
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.

Invisible Stripes
1939
as Tim Taylor
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

Golden Boy
1939
as Joe Bonaparte
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangste...

Million Dollar Legs
1939
as Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited)
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get ...

Prison Farm
1938
as Prisoner
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to...