William Holden

William Holden’s debut. He plays a violin protégé turned boxer, egged on by his manager’s mistress, played by Barbara Stanwyck. Lee J. Cobb plays Holden’s disappointed father.

George Raft plays a parolee eager for a fresh start, but the stigma of being an ex-con reduces him to working as a stock boy. When he sees his younger brother, played by William Holden, heading down the same path that landed him behind bars, Raft joins up with a gangster, played by Humphrey Bogart, to finance Holden’s dream of owning his own garage.

An adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s play chronicling turn-of-the-century life in a small New England town via two neighboring families, and their eldest children, played by William Holden and Martha Scott.

A drifter (William Holden) helps the first American woman in Tucson (Jean Arthur) protect her freight line from Indians and conspirators.

A man (William Holden) marries a woman (Frances Dee) from a rich family, then discovers she can’t live within a budget.

William Holden plays Bill, an enlisted bomber pilot who turns up on the titular Ruth’s doorstep, believing she’s his pen-pal sweetheart, unaware her tween kid sister has written all the letters using Ruth’s name and picture.

William Holden plays David Harvey, a farmer living with his young son Davey in the frontier wilderness. David’s wife Susan died a year ago, sinking him into depression. After discovering Davey using his school books as fodder for toy boats, David resolves to take a new wife. Not for love, but because Susan was adamant that Davey not grow up “woodsy”.

The Dark Past is a familiar story.

After the Civil War, a Marshall (William Holden) finds himself at odds with his one-time friend (Glenn Ford), now an increasingly homicidal judge.

A bookie (William Holden) hires an inept secretary (Lucille Ball) to front what she thinks is a real estate business.

After his medicine show runs afoul of the local law, a drifter (William Holden) winds up caring for a group of orphaned children.

A deranged and forgotten silent film star (Gloria Swanson) plans her comeback with the help of a hack screenwriter (William Holden).

A Union Station cop (William Holden) tracks kidnappers using his station for a ransom drop-off.

A burly scrap-metal tycoon (Broderick Crawford) pays a Washington D.C. newsman (William Holden) to make his girlfriend (Judy Holliday) couth.

William Holden plays an infantry Sergeant in Italy during World War II. He falls for a WAC Lieutenant, played by Nancy Olson. With his thoughts on his future with her, Holden proves reluctant to take risks on the battlefield. This leads to the death of his friend, a fellow officer, and lands him in the hospital. His injury grants him a ticket back to the states, but his guilty conscience forces him to rejoin his unit.

Depending on how you look at it, Submarine Command is either a good war picture broken up by a plodding melodrama, or a good melodrama ruined by a pat, war-picture ending. Either way, the attempt by the filmmakers to marry the two genres doesn’t quite work.

William Holden plays the titular Boots Malone, a once-premier jockey’s agent who’s gone from living in the Ritz to living in the stables. Malone’s deep in hock with his bookie, and thinking of leaving town when a 15-year-old runaway named Tommy comes into a diner and tries to pay for his meal with a c-note. With eyes full of dollar signs, Malone takes the kid under his wing, intent on riding the gravy train.

Stalag 17 is a somewhat uneven mix of comedy and drama that hits more often than it misses.

Subversive comedy with would-be playboy wolves Holden and Niven vying to seduce virginal sheep McNamara, who’s the real manipulator, playing the two for attention and a marriage proposal.

A southern belle (Eleanor Parker) distracts a hardened Union soldier (William Holden) guarding a group of Confederate prisoners.

After the death of their charismatic president, a company’s board must choose a successor.

A businessman (Humphrey Bogart) becomes alarmed when his younger brother’s (William Holden) romance with the chauffeur’s daughter (Audrey Hepburn) threatens a multi-million dollar deal.

A stage director (William Holden) hires of a one-time star (Bing Crosby) with a drinking problem only to butt heads with his wife (Grace Kelly).

The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a decent war melodrama buoyed by a strong cast, good special effects, and an excellent ending.

In Hong Kong, a Eurasian doctor (Jennifer Jones) falls for a married war correspondent (William Holden) during the Communist Revolution.

A drifter’s (William Holden) presence at a Labor Day picnic tips the emotional balance of several members of a small Kansas town.

In a Japanese POW camp, a British Colonel (Alec Guinness) becomes obsessed with completing a bridge for the enemy, unaware that a commando (Jack Hawkins) and an escapee (William Holden) plan to blow it up.

In World War II England, a tugboat Captain (William Holden) inherits a fellow captain’s (Trevor Howard) key to an apartment and its attractive young resident (Sophia Loren).

During the Civil War, a Union Cavalry Colonel (John Wayne) clashes with a pacifist surgeon (William Holden) assigned to his outfit for a raid deep into confederate territory.

An aspiring American artist (William Holden) falls for his prostitute model (Nancy Kwan) in Hong Kong.

A priest (William Holden) deals with a smitten native girl, a cranky older priest, and Communist Revolutionaries at a mission in China.

A hack screenwriter (William Holden) daydreams with his secretary (Audrey Hepburn) in Paris while working on an overdue script.

In post World War II Malaysia, a man (William Holden) finds is increasingly difficult to stay neutral as Communist guerillas clash with the occupying British government.

A Confederate Colonel (Richard Widmark) forces a half-Mexican cattleman (William Holden) to lead the theft of a herd of Union livestock.

An older James Bond comes out of retirement to defeat SMERSH.

Pursued by one of their own (Robert Ryan), an aging band of outlaws (William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O’Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez, and Ben Johnson) heads to Mexico seeking one last big score.

In World War II, a Colonel (William Holden) develops a special combat unit made up of a crack squad of Canadian soldiers and a host of American misfits.

When Comanches led by a white comanchero slaughter his family, rancher William Holden recruits a band of Mexican prison inmates—including Woody Strode and Ernest Borgnine—for his revenge mission.

Television executives (Robert Duvall and Faye Dunaway) exploit a mentally unstable anchorman (Peter Finch) over the objections of a seasoned newsman (William Holden).

After his uncle (William Holden) enrolls him at a military academy, a boy begins to discover his true identity as the Antichrist.