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William Holden

1918 - 1981

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William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – 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 Series or Movie for the television miniseries The Blue Knight (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), Picnic (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Network (1976). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Holden has received more than 8,471,764 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). William Holden is the 281st most popular actor (up from 315th in 2019), the 518th most popular biography from United States (up from 575th in 2019) and the 140th most popular American Actor.

William Holden is most famous for his portrayal of the lead character in the film "Sunset Boulevard."

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of William Holdens by language

Over the past year William Holden has had the most page views in the with 1,041,210 views, followed by German (102,751), and French (92,297). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (351.47%), Cornish (200.40%), and Uzbek (145.89%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, William Holden ranks 281 out of 13,578. Before him are Michael Landon, Glenn Close, Demi Moore, Liza Minnelli, Vittorio Gassman, and Kurt Russell. After him are Christopher Reeve, Pola Negri, Nathalie Delon, Michael Keaton, Farrah Fawcett, and Rudolph Valentino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, William Holden ranks 21. Before him are Gertrude B. Elion, Alberto Ascari, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Frederick Sanger, Chaim Herzog, and Katherine Johnson. After him are Martin Ryle, Jørn Utzon, Kai Siegbahn, Billy Graham, Muriel Spark, and Ernst Otto Fischer. Among people deceased in 1981, William Holden ranks 11. Before him are Albert Speer, Soong Ching-ling, Max Euwe, Natalie Wood, Frederica of Hanover, and Hideki Yukawa. After him are William Wyler, Hans Adolf Krebs, Odd Hassel, Eugenio Montale, Béla Guttmann, and René Clair.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Holden ranks 518 out of 20,380. Before him are Liza Minnelli (1946), Katherine Johnson (1918), William P. Murphy (1892), Kurt Russell (1951), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), and Irving Langmuir (1881). After him are Paul Simon (1941), Christopher Reeve (1952), Carroll Shelby (1923), Sydney Pollack (1934), Charlie Parker (1920), and Kip Thorne (1940).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, William Holden ranks 140. Before him are Kathy Bates (1948), Michael Landon (1936), Glenn Close (1947), Demi Moore (1962), Liza Minnelli (1946), and Kurt Russell (1951). After him are Christopher Reeve (1952), Michael Keaton (1951), Farrah Fawcett (1947), Anthony Perkins (1932), Jeff Bridges (1949), and Tobin Bell (1942).

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Television and Movie Roles

Sunset Boulevard
Joe Gillis
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Aug 10o 19508.334 / 10
The Wild Bunch
Pike Bishop
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Jun 19o 19697.625 / 10
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Cmdr. Shears
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.
Oct 11o 19577.834 / 10