William Holden

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Golden Boy (1939): Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck; William Holden, in his starring debut, plays a gifted youth who trades off a promising career as a musician to make it as a boxer.
Our Town (1940): Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Frank Craven, William Holden, Martha Scott; Affectionate study of small–town American life, set in New Hampshire over a twelve year period. Frank Craven narrates our tour of the community…
Arizona (1940): Dir. Wesley Ruggles
Feat. Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William; Epic frontier Western set in Tuscon, Arizona in early 1860's, where an independent, tough–as–nails pioneer woman aspires to be a cattle…
Rachel and the Stranger (1948): Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. William Holden, Loretta Young, Robert Mitchum; Western 'rom–com' with husband William Holden and 'stranger' Robert Mitchum competing for the affections of Loretta Young ('Rachel') towards…
Streets of Laredo (1949): Dir. Leslie Fenton
Feat. William Holden, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman…; Middling western with Holden as an outlaw who separates from his two partners in crime when they join the Texas Rangers, and he continues to commit…
Man from Colorado, The (1949): Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew; Gritty technicolor psycho–drama set during the American Civil War starring Glenn Ford as a Union officer who becomes addicted to killing.
Born Yesterday (1950): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden; Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her role as the 'dumb' blonde mistress of a ruthless tycoon who takes up English lessons, falls for her teacher, then…
Sunset Boulevard (1950): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim…; Faded screen vamp Gloria Swanson and screenwriter William Holden exploit each other mercilessly in this searing dissection of Hollywood decadence,…
Stalag 17 (1952): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger…; Sophisticated WW2 film in which comedy and suspense make uneasy but fascinating bedfellows. William Holden leads imprisoned American G.Is who plan…
Moon is Blue, The (1953): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. William Holden, Maggie McNamara, David Niven; Bright, bristling romantic comedy centered on the courtship of a blithe and carefree commercials actress (McNamara) by the smooth–as–silk…
Bridges at Toko-Ri, The (1954): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. William Holden, Grace Kelly; Ace pilot William Holden is out to destroy the 'impossible' target in this excellent Korean War thriller.
Country Girl, The (1954): Dir. George Seaton
Feat. Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden; Bing Crosby sobers up to play an alcoholic has–been actor aided to make a comeback by wife Grace Kelly and pal William Holden.
Sabrina (1954): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden; Cinderella–ish comic yarn with a dream cast and director. Audrey Hepburn plays a humble chauffeur's daughter who wins the affections of noble…
Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing (1955): Dir. Henry King
Feat. William Holden, Jennifer Jones; Romantic splendour set in Hong Kong at the time of the Korean war about a married US war correspondent who embarks on a forbidden love affair.
Picnic (1955): Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Kim Novak, Cliff Robertson, William Holden…; Epitome of the 50s smalltown melodrama has the sultry Kim Novak relieved of boyfriend Cliff Robertson and the general Mid–West tedium, by…
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957): Dir. David Lean
Feat. William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins; Another rousing, grand scale production from director Lean, about a group of British POW's employed by the Japanese to build a bridge, while their…
Key, The (1958): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard; Captivating WW2 drama set around a Londonite lady (played with restrained elegance by Sophia Loren) whose liaisons with war sea captains over the…
Horse Soldiers, The (1959): Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers; Set around a Yankee incursion into Rebel territory during the American Civil War, this rates about average against Dir. Ford's other action films. …
World of Suzie Wong, The (1960): Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. William Holden, Nancy Kwan; Aspiring artist William Holden courts the Chinese prostitute of the title (Nancy Kwan) in 1950s Hong Kong. Lukewarm dramatically, but with some…
Paris When it Sizzles (1964): Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Sir Noel Coward…; Paris simmers in this minor comedy about a group of movie–writers acting out their ideas of the streets of the French capital, with a good cast…
Alvarez Kelly (1966): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. William Holden, Richard Widmark; Set during the American Civil War, this violent western concerns a running feud between the leads over cattle–rustling activities.
Devil's Brigade, The (1968): Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards…; Efficient actioner with an American colonel tasked with creating a special forces unit from Canadian troops and a ragtag group of American misfits.
Wild Bunch, The (1969): Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan…; Sam Peckinpah's uncompromising Western bloodbath with William Holden and Ernest Borgnine leading the famous band of unruly marauders. Astonishing in…
Wild Rovers (1971): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden…; Saddle–sore cowpunchers William Holden and Ryan O'Neal safeguard their retirement by bank robbery, then head for the Mexican border.…
Revengers, The (1972): Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode…; One of the more violet westerns not to be directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden as a rancher and Civil War hero who assembles a posse of…
Breezy (1973): Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. William Holden, Kay Lenz; Early, overlooked love affair from screen hard man Clint Eastwood, directing elder statesman William Holden as an aging recent divorcee who strikes…
Towering Inferno, The (1974): Dir. Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
Feat. Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway…; Sensational adventure epic that spawned numerous films about man's futility against Mother Nature. McQueen takes the hose ahead of a cream of famous…
Network (1976): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway…; Explosive drama about an ailing TV station desperate to improve their ratings. Peter Finch won the Best Actor Oscar post–humously as the…
Omen Trilogy, The (The Omen, The Omen II, The Omen III - The Final Conflict) (1976-1981): Dir. Richard Donner, Don Taylor, Graham Baker
Feat. Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens…; After the success of The Exorcist, a serious budget was lavished on this tale of the Anti–Christ as mortal, born into a privileged and powerful…
21 Hours at Munich (1976): Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. William Holden, Shirley Knight, Franco Nero…; Teledrama depiction of the infamous events at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where the terrorist group Black September took 11 Israeli athletes…
Damien: The Omen II (Omen 2) (1978): Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Jonathan Scott-Taylor, William Holden, Lee Grant; Effective continuation of the story with Damien (chillingly understated by Jonathan Scott–Taylor) now grappling with teenage problems on top of…
Fedora (1978): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. William Holden, Marthe Keller, Jose Ferrer…; Fascinating later work from dir. Wilder, in which an impoverished film producer travels to the Greek islands to track down an elusive European star…
Ashanti (1979): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Omar Sharif…; When his wife is kidnapped by Arab slave traders, UN medic Michael Caine hops aboard a camel and goes on an adventure quest to retrieve her. Caine…
S.O.B. (1981): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Julie Andrews, William Holden, Richard Mulligan…; Blake Edwards' satire of the film industry and Hollywood society in which a movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by…

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