William Holden - ©Theda Bara

The name I present to you in this post is that of the American actor William Holden, one of the highest-grossing Hollywood stars of the 1950s.

William Holden won the Oscar for Best Actor (1954) for his performance in the film: “Stalag 17” (1953), playing the role of “Sergeant J.J. Sefton”.

William Holden has a star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame, at 1651 Vine Street, in the motion picture category.

In addition to the Oscar, William Holden also won a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie in 1974 for “The Blue Knight”, an American police drama television series that aired from 1973 to 1976, in which he played the character “Bumper Morgan”.

William Franklin Beedle Jr., was born on April 17, 1918, in O’Fallon, Illinois, United States, and died on November 11, 1981, in Santa Monica, California, United States, at the age of 63.

William Holden was married only to American actress Brenda Marshall (1915-1992), from 1941 to 1971, from whom he separated ten years before his sudden death, due to a head injury caused by a fall due to excessive drinking. He remained conscious for about half an hour after the injury and did not realize that he should seek medical help; had he done so, he probably would not have died.