William Holden Biography

William Franklin Beedle, Jr., more commonly known as William Holden, was an American actor who became famous for his most memorable role in ‘Stalag 17’ in 1953 which helped him get the Academy Award for the ‘Best Actor. He also won the ‘Primetime Emmy Award’ for bring the most ‘Outstanding Lead Actor’ in the television film ‘The Blue Knight’ in 1973. He became very popular as an actor during 1950 to 1970 and acted in many blockbuster films during that time such as ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’, ‘Sunset Boulevard’, ‘The Wild Bunch’, ‘The Towering Inferno’, ‘Sabrina’ and ‘Network’. He became one of the ‘Top 10 Stars of the Year’ on six occasions and his name was included in the list of ‘25 Greatest Male Stars’ in Hollywood brought out by the ‘American Film Institute’. He had the nickname of ‘Golden Boy’ from his first film and was also sometimes called Golden Holden. He spent a lot of time travelling to Africa where he ran the ‘Mount Kenya Safari Club’ with a partner and Switzerland. He was chosen as the sixty-third among the ‘100 sexiest stars’ in the history of films. He was the best man at the wedding of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.