William Holden — Actor (20)
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Wild Rovers (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Wild Rovers
director: Blake Edwards actor: William Holden / Ryan O'Neal …
other title: Uomini selvaggi / Missouri …
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
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The Revengers (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Revengers
director: Daniel Mann actor: William Holden / Ernest Borgnine …
other title: La feccia / Revengers …
The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict 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.
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The Blue Knight (1973) [TV] IMDb TMDB
The Blue Knight
director: Robert Butler actor: William Holden / Lee Remick …
Bumper Morgan is a 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department who is scheduled to retire in a week. Before he leaves, he must work on the murder of a prostitute in one of LA's far corners. Along the way, he must grapple with vicious thugs, his fellow officers who feel mixed about his retiring, and his woman who wants him to leave the streets.
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The Remarkable Andrew (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Remarkable Andrew
director: Stuart Heisler actor: Brian Donlevy / William Holden …
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Lucille Ball / William Holden …
other title: Segretaria tutto fare / Miss Grain de sel
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
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Golden Boy (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Golden Boy
director: Rouben Mamoulian actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: Passione / Sueño dorado
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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The Proud and Profane (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Proud and Profane
director: George Seaton actor: William Holden / Deborah Kerr …
other title: Anche gli eroi piangono / Auch Helden können weinen …
In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the death of her husband, Howard, in the Battle of Guadalcanal. There, Ashley falls for the gruff, seductive Marine Lt. Col. Colin Buck, but struggle and tragedy follow when the widow learns about the reality of Buck's life back home.
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Submarine Command (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Submarine Command
director: John Farrow actor: William Holden / Nancy Olson …
other title: Squali d'acciaio / U-Kreuzer Tigerhai …
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
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The Turning Point (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Turning Point
director: William Dieterle actor: William Holden / Edmond O'Brien …
other title: Furore sulla città / Le Cran d'arrêt …
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.
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The Key (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Key
director: Carol Reed actor: William Holden / Sophia Loren …
other title: La chiave / A Chave …
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
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Apartment for Peggy (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Apartment for Peggy
director: George Seaton actor: Jeanne Crain / William Holden …
other title: Amore sotto i tetti / Eine Dachkammer für zwei …
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
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Paris When It Sizzles (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Paris When It Sizzles
director: Richard Quine actor: William Holden / Audrey Hepburn …
other title: Insieme a Parigi / Pigen der stjal Eiffeltårnet …
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been in Paris supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him finish on time.
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Ashanti (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ashanti
director: Richard Fleischer actor: Michael Caine / Peter Ustinov …
other title: Ébano
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
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The Devil's Brigade (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Devil's Brigade
director: Andrew V. McLaglen actor: William Holden / Cliff Robertson …
other title: La brigata del diavolo / Djævlebrigaden …
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData Skybridge
The Bridge on the River Kwai
8.4 (5 ratings) director: David Lean actor: William Holden / Alec Guinness …
other title: Il ponte sul fiume Kwai / Broen over floden Kwai …
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.