William Holden was born William Franklin Beedle, Jr. in O'Fallon, Illinois to a schoolteacher and industrial chemist. He came from a wealthy family, the Beedles, who moved to Pasadena, California when he was three years old.
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💰 Net worth
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Sunset Blvd. (1950)
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$30,000 |
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Sabrina (1954)
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$150,000 |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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$250,000 + 10% of the gross (World-wide) |
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The Horse Soldiers (1959)
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$750,000 + 20% of profits |
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The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
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$750,000 |
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The Wild Bunch (1969)
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$250,000 |
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The Towering Inferno (1974)
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$750,000 |
William Holden was born William Franklin Beedle, Jr. in O'Fallon, Illinois, to Mary Blanche (Ball), a schoolteacher, and William Franklin Beedle, Sr., an industrial chemist. He came from a wealthy family (the Beedles) that moved to Pasadena, California, when he was three. In 1937, while studying chemistry at Pasadena Junior College, he was signed to a film contract by Paramount. His first starring role was as a young man torn between the violin and boxing in Golden Boy (1939). From then on he was typecast as the boy-next-door.
After returning from World War II military service, he got two very important roles: Joe Gillis, the gigolo, in Sunset Blvd. (1950), and the tutor in Born Yesterday (1950). These were followed by his Oscar-winning role as the cynical sergeant in Stalag 17 (1953). He stayed popular through the 1950s, appearing in such films as Picnic (1956). He spent much of his later time as co-owner of the Mount Kenya Safari Club, dividing his time between Africa and Switzerland.
