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  • The Wild Bunch
  • The Wild Bunch review by from Plymouth, UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars Peckinpah classic 14 June 2004
    ...end in one last blaze of glory. The film features mesmeric performances from William Holden, Robert Ryan and Ernest Borgnine, who look like they've spent years growing old...   Read customer review
  • The Towering Inferno
  • The Towering Inferno review by from FALLOWFIELD
    Rated - 4.0 stars 24 May 2004
    ... due to shoddy work from the constructors; but with Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Robert Vaughan amongst others, it's great fun watc...   Read customer review
  • Stalag 17
  • Stalag 17 review by from Colchester, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars My favourite Billy Wilder movie 25 November 2004
    ...n camp. They find out that somebody in their barracks is a German spy, but who? William Holden turns in a commendable oscar-winning performance, which is interesting as appar...   Read customer review

William Holden - filmography


  • S.O.B. (1981)
    Starring: Julie Andrews,  William Holden,  Marisa Berenson
    Director: Blake Edwards
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on his near-career-ending experience with the box-office disaster DARLING LILI, Blake Edwards fashioned a corrosive behind-the-scenes satire of the business in which he had long plied his trade.The film stars Richard Mulligan as Felix Farmer, a once-successful director whose career is on the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 40 members
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  • Fedora (1978)
    Starring: William Holden,  Marthe Keller,  Hildegarde Knef
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A faltering producer is bent on resurrecting his career by bringing a popular -- and eternally youthful looking -- actress out of seclusion to star in his next picture.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 3 members
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  • CBS Salutes Lucy - The First 25 Years (1976)
    Starring: Lucille Ball,  Jack Benny,  Milton Berle
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    The Funniest Woman on Television, Lucille Ball, first received her due at this 1976 celebration of her first 25 years on television. CBS TV wanted to show their appreciation for the legendary comedienne, so this tribute was organized featuring cast members and other favorites of early television, ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 31% from 6 members
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  • Network on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Peter Finch,  Faye Dunaway,  William Holden
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A trenchant satire of trash TV, Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the dean of newscasters at the United Broadcasting System, is put out to pasture because he skews old. Network executive Max Schumacher (William Holden), Howard's best friend,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 8,011 members
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  • Breezy on DVD (1973)
    Starring: William Holden,  Kay Lenz
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Young Edith Alice Breezerman, better known as "Breezy" (Kay Lenz) lives life as a free-spirited hippie -- moving from adventure to adventure like a dandelion seed on the wind. Her innocence, however, leads her to trouble when she discovers the ulterior motives of a man who offers her a place to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 50 members
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  • The Wild Bunch on DVD (1969)
    Starring: William Holden,  Robert Ryan,  Ernest Borgnine
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the ageing gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honour which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West--widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,912 members
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  • The Wild Bunch - Blu-ray (1969)
    Starring: William Holden,  Robert Ryan,  Ernest Borgnine
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the ageing gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honour which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 436 members
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  • The Devil's Brigade on DVD (1968)
    Starring: William Holden,  Cliff Robertson,  Vince Edwards
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Standard WWII fantasyland fare as Holden grabs a thankless detail: create a fit commando troop from a gaggle of down-and-dirty Canadian and American misfits. Big-budget, big-screen treatment and curious assortment of stars doesn't add up to much, but choosing the the Italian Alps as a theatre of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 512 members
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  • Casino Royale on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  David Niven,  Ursula Andress
    Director: Val Guest,  John Huston,  Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming's spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name "Bond," and all six ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 2,847 members
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  • Alvarez Kelly on DVD (1966)
    Starring: William Holden,  Victoria Shaw,  Janice Rule
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    William Holden (NETWORK, SUNSET BOULEVARD) stars in this rugged Western--based on an actual incident--as a Mexican-Irish rancher who sells his herd to the Union army during the Civil War. An eye-patch-wearing Confederate colonel (Richard Widmark) tries to buy the cattle, but apolitical Kelly doesn'..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 222 members
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  • Casino Royale - Blu-ray (1966)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  David Niven,  Ursula Andress
    Director: Val Guest,  John Huston,  Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming's spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name "Bond," and all six ..read more »
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  • Paris When It Sizzles on DVD (1964)
    Starring: William Holden,  Audrey Hepburn,  Gregoire Aslan
    Director: Richard Quine
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites William Holden and Audrey Hepburn for the first time since 1954's Sabrina. Holden plays Richard Benson, a Hollywood screenwriter being pressured by movie ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 946 members
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  • Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
    Starring: William Holden,  Clifton Webb,  France Nuyen
    Director: Leo McCarey
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The last film by Leo McCarey (AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER) picks up on earlier religious themes in the director's work. It follows Father O'Banion (William Holden, THE WILD BUNCH) to a mission in 1949 China, where he is to take over the position of the elderly Father Bovard (Clifton Webb, CHEAPER BY THE ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 13% from 3 members
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  • The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
    Starring: William Holden,  Nancy Kwan,  Sylvia Syms
    Director: Richard Quine
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Robert Lomax tired of working in an office, wants to try his hand as an artist. So he moves to Hong Kong to try his hand at painting. Finding a cheap hotel he checks in, only to find its used by prostitutes and their 'dates' who meet in the bar downstairs. Since he never picks up any of ladies, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 10 members
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  • The Horse Soldiers on DVD (1959)
    Starring: John Wayne,  William Holden,  Constance Towers
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    THE HORSE SOLDIERS, John Ford's only attempt at tackling the subject of the Civil War, is based on Grierson's Raid, part of the Union's assault on Vicksburg in April 1863. After a number of failed efforts at taking the Southern stronghold, Union leaders assign Col. John Marlowe (John Wayne), a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 943 members
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  • The Bridge on the River Kwai on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Alec Guinness,  William Holden,  Jack Hawkins
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 16,530 members
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  • Picnic on DVD (1955)
    Starring: William Holden,  Kim Novak,  Betty Field
    Director: Joshua Logan
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. William Holden plays Hal Carter, a handsome drifter who ambles into a small Kansas town during the Labor Day celebration to look up old college chum Alan (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 151 members
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  • Sabrina on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  William Holden,  Audrey Hepburn
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) is the daughter of a Long Island chauffeur, almost a member of the extended family of her father's employer. Linus and David Larrabee are the sons in the wealthy family, and Sabrina has harbored a crush on David (William Holden), the younger and more freewheeling of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 5,029 members
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  • Country Girl on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Jacqueline Fontaine,  Gene Reynolds,  William Holden
    Director: George Seaton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bing Crosby does the Academy Award-bid bit in the atypical role of a self-pitying alcoholic, but it was his co-star, a deglamorized Grace Kelly, who won the Oscar for her performance in The Country Girl. This adaptation of Clifford Odets' play stars Crosby as Frank Elgin, a once-famous Broadway ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 206 members
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  • Stalag 17 on DVD (1952)
    Starring: William Holden,  Don Taylor,  Otto Preminger
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Billy Wilder's adaptation of the Broadway hit stars William Holden as the cynical Sefton. Set in the eponymous German prison camp during WWII, the director's broad, black comedy focuses on a group of decidedly unheroic prisoners. While they spend most of their time trying to entertain each other ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,548 member
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  • Sunset Boulevard on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Gloria Swanson,  William Holden,  Erich Von Stroheim
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Billy Wilder's masterpiece, a corrosive black comedy that remains the most memorable assault on the emptiness and vanity of the movie business, it stars William Holden as young, down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis. Narrated in flashbacks by the now-deceased scribe, the film unwinds the series of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 11,450 members
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  • Born Yesterday on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Judy Holliday,  William Holden,  Broderick Crawford
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Judy Holliday reprises her Broadway role in this fresh and entertaining comedy based on Garson Kanin's play, directed by George Cukor. Although reputedly not the first choice for the film role, Holliday won an Academy Award for her priceless portrayal of a "dumb but savvy" blonde who outsmarts the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 773 members
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  • The Man From Colorado on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Glenn Ford,  William Holden,  Ellen Drew
    Director: Henry Levin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Scarred by the Civil War, trigger-happy Owen Devereaux (Glen Ford) orders the slaughter of a band of holed-up Confederates after he has seen them raise the white flag. Later, he lands a Federal judgeship post in Colorado and tries to settle down. But to no avail, for he abuses his gavel in the same ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 95 members
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  • Texas on DVD (1941)
    Starring: William Holden,  Glenn Ford,  Claire Trevor
    Director: George Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this rip-roaring blend of action, thrills and humour, William Holden (The Man From Colorado) and Glenn Ford (The Desperadoes, The Violent Men) star as Dan Thomas and Tod Ramsey, two saddle bums whose dream of making their fortune in the Lone Star state has gone seriously awry. So when the rough-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 14 members
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  • Arizona on DVD (1940)
    Starring: Jean Arthur,  William Holden,  Warren William
    Director: Wesley Ruggles
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 9 members
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  • Our Town on DVD (1940)
    Starring: William Holden,  Martha Scott,  Fay Bainter
    Director: Sam Wood
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Touching film version of Thornton Wilders Pulitzer Prize winning play that explores the love, humour and pain in the lives of two families in the woodsy New Hampshire town, Grovers Corners. William Holden and Martha Scott succumb to adolescent affections before maturing, marrying and bearing a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 46 members
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  • The Revengers
    Starring: William Holden,  Ernest Borgnine,  Woody Strode
    Director: Daniel Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict (William Holden) is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 7 members
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William Holden facts

5 most recent films

S.O.B. - 2.5 stars
Ashanti - 2.5 stars
Fedora - 4.0 stars
The Omen II - Damien - 3.0 stars
CBS Salutes Lucy - The First 25 Years - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Bridge On The River Kwai - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Sunset Boulevard - 4.0 stars
The Wild Bunch - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Towering Inferno - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Sabrina - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Casino Royale - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Satan Never Sleeps - 0.5 stars
CBS Salutes Lucy - The First 25 Years - 2.0 stars
The Counterfeit Traitor - 2.0 stars
Our Town - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alec Guinness - 5 times - show films
Jack Hawkins - 5 times - show films
Sessue Hayakawa - 5 times - show films
Percy Herbert - 5 times - show films
Andre Morrell - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Billy Wilder - 5 times - show films
David Lean - 4 times - show films
Ken Hughes - 3 times - show films
Val Guest - 3 times - show films
John Huston - 3 times - show films