Satan Never Sleeps / Flight from Terror (1962)
Drama | History | War
During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.
Starring: William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler, Martin Benson, Burt Kwouk
Director: Leo McCarey, David W. Orton
Stalag 17 (1953)
Comedy | Drama | War
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Starring: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman
Director: Billy Wilder
Breezy (1973)
Drama | Romance
Breezy is a teen-aged hippy with a big heart. After taking a ride with a man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to hide on a secluded property where stands the home of a middle-aged divorced man, Frank Harmon. Frank reluctantly takes Breezy in only to fall unexpectedly in love with her.
Starring: William Holden, Kay Lenz, Roger C. Carmel, Marj Dusay, Joan Hotchkis, Jamie Smith-Jackson
Director: Clint Eastwood
Sabrina (1954)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, Martha Hyer, Marcel Dalio
Director: Billy Wilder
Network (1976)
Drama
Newscaster Howard Beale has a message for those who package reports of cute puppies, movie premieres and fender benders as hard news: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore." A satire (an Academy Award-winning screenplay) about the things people do for love…and ratings.
Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty
Director: Sidney Lumet
Forever Female (1953)
Comedy
Aging actress Ginger Rogers refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingenue role any longer.
Starring: Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas, Pat Crowley, James Gleason, Jesse White
Director: Irving Rapper
Fedora (1978)
Drama | Romance
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress out of retirement.
Starring: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer, Frances Sternhagen, Gottfried John, Arlene Francis
Director: Billy Wilder
Born Yesterday (1950)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A corrupt junk dealer who comes to Washington to "buy" a congressman or two. Fatally, he brings along a Sleeping Beauty, his chorine mistress, Billie Dawn; under the ministrations of a newspapermanhired to "refine"her, Billie awakens to an appreciation of her own shrewd brain – and the nastier ways of her bully boyfriend.
Starring: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden, Barbara Brown, Howard St. John, Frank Otto
Director: George Cukor
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Action
A dedication ceremony at the world's tallest skyscraper turns into a high-rise catastrophe when an electrical flare-up causes a raging fire, trapping society's most prominent citizens on the top floor. Winner of three Academy Awards, this spectacular suspense thriller features dazzling special effects and a star-studded cast, including Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden and Faye Dunaway.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Wagner, Robert Vaughn
Director: Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
Picnic (1955)
Drama | Romance
The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy who also happens to be the son of the richest man in town. Hal is an egocentric braggart – all potential and no accomplishment. He meets up with Madge Owens, the town beauty queen and girlfriend of Alan Benson.
Starring: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell
Director: Joshua Logan
Sunset Blvd. / Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Drama | Film-Noir
Noir-comic classic about death and decay in Hollywood. Joe Gillis, a handsome but bankrupt screenwriter, is hired by washed-up silent screen star Norma Desmond to pen her a comeback star vehicle. Gillis has had his latest screenplay rejected by the studios, and, desperate, takes up Desmond's offer to write Salome for her. She demands that he stay with her while he writes, and soon he becomes a virtual prisoner of the actress and her gloomy house.
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough
Director: Billy Wilder
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
Drama | Romance | War
Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension.
Starring: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Charles McGraw
Director: Mark Robson
Union Station (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Secretary Joyce Willecombe grows suspicious of two men boarding her train and is referred to 'Tough Willy' Calhoun, head of the Union Station police. The all-seeing, no-nonsense Calhoun is initially skeptical, but the men (who escape) prove to be involved in a kidnap case. Calhoun calls in equally tough police Inspector Donnelly, but the ruthless kidnapper's precision planning stays one jump ahead of them. Most of the action centers around bustling Union Station.
Starring: William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald, Lyle Bettger, Jan Sterling
Director: Rudolph Maté
The Country Girl (1954)
Drama | Music
Washed up singer/actor Frank Elgin has a chance to make a come-back when director Bernie Dodd offers him the leading role in his new musical. Frank however is very insecure, turns to alcohol and shuns even the smallest of responsibilities, leaving everything up to his wife Georgie who finds it harder and harder to cope with her husband's lack of spirit. Bernie tries to help Frank regain his self-confidence, believing that it is Georgie who's the cause of his insecurity.
Starring: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden
Director: George Seaton
Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Comedy | Romance
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment 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 complete it in time.
Starring: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn
Director: Richard Quine
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Damien: Omen II / The Omen II (1978)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Damien the Antichrist, now age 13, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark mystical forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.
Starring: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth, Nicholas Pryor
Director: Don Taylor
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Adventure | Drama | War
A group of British POWs is forced to build a bridge in Burma for the Japanese. Led by Colonel Nicholson, they not only build the bridge but organise the whole building program and are proud of the final result. However, unbeknownst to the POWs, a British commando team has been given a mission to destroy it.
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne
Director: David Lean
