{"id":892,"date":"2025-04-01T07:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/?p=892"},"modified":"2025-04-01T07:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:26:56","slug":"william-holden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/2025\/04\/01\/william-holden\/","title":{"rendered":"William Holden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

William Franklin Holden<\/strong> (n\u00e9 Beedle Jr.<\/strong>; April 17, 1918 \u2013 November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor<\/a> for the film Stalag 17<\/a><\/em> (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie<\/a> for The Blue Knight<\/a><\/em> (1973).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holden starred in some of Hollywood’s most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard<\/a><\/em> (1950), Sabrina<\/a><\/em> (1954), Picnic<\/a><\/em> (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai<\/a><\/em> (1957), The Wild Bunch<\/a><\/em> (1969) and Network<\/a><\/em> (1976). He was named one of the “Top 10 Stars of the Year<\/a>” six times (1954\u20131958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute<\/a>‘s list of 25 greatest male stars<\/a> of Classical Hollywood cinema<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early life and education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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With Lee J. Cobb<\/a> (right) in Holden’s first starring role in a film, Golden Boy<\/a><\/em> (1939)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. on April 17, 1918, in O’Fallon, Illinois<\/a>, son of Mary Blanche Beedle (n\u00e9e Ball), a schoolteacher, and her husband, William Franklin Beedle Sr., an industrial chemist<\/a>.[1]<\/a><\/sup> He had two younger brothers, Robert Westfield Beedle and Richard Porter Beedle. One of his father’s grandmothers, Rebecca Westfield, was born in England, while some of his mother’s ancestors settled in Virginia’s Lancaster County<\/a> after emigrating from England in the 17th century.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Franklin Holden (n\u00e9 Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 \u2013 November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.test.ate.otgs.work\/testqa201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}