William Holden's
William Holden's
William Holden's original name was William Franklin Beedle, Jr. He was born on April 17, 1918 in O’Fallon, Illinois, U.S. He attended Pasadena Junior College. During study he acted in local radio plays and became involved with the Pasadena Playhouse. He was discovered by a Paramount Pictures talent scout and given the more glamorous surname “Holden”. Due to his health and muscular build, the studio assigned him the lead role in the boxing melodrama Golden Boy in 1939. The role was a challenge for him as being the inexperienced young actor. He was got trained by costar Barbara Stanwyck about the basics of performing before a camera. Columbia Pictures picked up him and made half of his contract, resultantly he alternated between the two studios. He appeared in several forgettable films before joining the Army Air Force during World War II. After the war, he continued to perform in the films. In the later years, he bitterly resented the studio's exploitation of his physical appearance at the expense of his development as an actor. Director Billy Wilder rescued his career by hiring him for the lead in Sunset Boulevard in 1950. He went on to produce his strongest body of work during the 1950s in such films as Born Yesterday (1950), Stalag 17, which earned for him the best actor Oscar for 1953, Sabrina (1954), The Country Girl (1954), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955), Picnic (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). In the later years, he appeared in few films and spent much of his time and money supporting conservation efforts in Africa. Those roles that do stand out from his later career as Pike Bishop in The Wild Bunch (1969), TV executive Max Schumacher in Network (1976) and hard-drinking film producer Tim Culley in Blake Edwards’s S.O.B. captured a bit of his real-life bitterness and depression and added a tinge of melancholy to his screen image. after an evening of drinking, he suffered a severe laceration to his forehead during a household mishap. He remained conscious for at least half an hour after the accident but did not realize the severity of his injury and did not make the phone call that would surely have saved his life. He died on November 12, 1981 in Santa Monica, California, U.S.
William Holden's original name was William Franklin Beedle, Jr. He was born on April 17, 1918 in O’Fallon, Illinois, U.S. He attended Pasadena Junior College. During study he acted in local radio plays and became involved with the Pasadena Playhouse. He was discovered by a Paramount Pictures talent scout and given the more glamorous surname “Holden”. Due to his health and muscular build, the studio assigned him the lead role in the boxing melodrama Golden Boy in 1939. The role was a challenge for him as being the inexperienced young actor. He was got trained by costar Barbara Stanwyck about the basics of performing before a camera. Columbia Pictures picked up him and made half of his contract, resultantly he alternated between the two studios. He appeared in several forgettable films before joining the Army Air Force during World War II. After the war, he continued to perform in the films. In the later years, he bitterly resented the studio's exploitation of his physical appearance at the expense of his development as an actor. Director Billy Wilder rescued his career by hiring him for the lead in Sunset Boulevard in 1950. He went on to produce his strongest body of work during the 1950s in such films as Born Yesterday (1950), Stalag 17, which earned for him the best actor Oscar for 1953, Sabrina (1954), The Country Girl (1954), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955), Picnic (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). In the later years, he appeared in few films and spent much of his time and money supporting conservation efforts in Africa. Those roles that do stand out from his later career as Pike Bishop in The Wild Bunch (1969), TV executive Max Schumacher in Network (1976) and hard-drinking film producer Tim Culley in Blake Edwards’s S.O.B. captured a bit of his real-life bitterness and depression and added a tinge of melancholy to his screen image. after an evening of drinking, he suffered a severe laceration to his forehead during a household mishap. He remained conscious for at least half an hour after the accident but did not realize the severity of his injury and did not make the phone call that would surely have saved his life. He died on November 12, 1981 in Santa Monica, California, U.S.
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