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Jun 9, 2024 · Before his tragic accidental death in November 1981 at the age of 63, William Holden was one of the most versatile and dependable performers around. An Academy Award and Primetime Emmy winner, he collaborated with some of the industry’s greatest directors on a number of classic films.
Jun 21, 2024 · As it opens, two POWs, the American navy commander Shears (William Holden) and an Australian, are digging graves for their companions. A regiment of British prisoners arrives, whistling the “Colonel Bogey March,” under the command of Colonel Nicholson (Sir Alec Guinness).
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Jun 29, 2024 · Gloria Swanson made herself a legend all over again in her Oscar-nominated role as the unforgettable Norma Desmond, William Holden (also nominated) is the perfectly charming and cynical hack writer Joe Gillis, and Austrian director Erich von Stroheim plays the heartbroken butler.
1 day ago · A bit like Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd. is a noir directed by Billy Wilder in which a dunce (now William Holden’s hack screenwriter Joe Gillis) walks into the wrong house and seals his fate ...
Jun 13, 2024 · William Holden in The Wild Bunch (1969), directed by Sam Peckinpah. A notorious gang of outlaws headed by Pike Bishop (played by William Holden) barely escape a violent bank robbery in which dozens of innocent bystanders are killed.
Jun 17, 2024 · William Holden stars in Wilder’s classic Hollywood noir as Joe Gillis, a struggling screenwriter who allows himself to be taken in by the actress twice his age.
1 day ago · William J. Devlin explores the narrative of Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, an aging Western hero, symbolic of an older tradition, who does not serve an underpopulated "Wild West", but an evolved landscape with new breeds of crime which baffle him.
