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| death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S. | death_cause = Exsanguination following a fall | education = South Pasadena High School | alma_mater = Pasadena Junior College | occupation = Actor, wildlife conservationist | years_active = 1931–1981 | party = Republican〔Heymann (2009, p. 25. )〕 |Faith = Congregationalist | spouse = | children = 3 | awards = Academy Award for Best Actor (1953) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor (1974) }} William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor who was one of the biggest box office draws of the 1950s through the 1970s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1953 for his role in ''Stalag 17'', and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his role in the 1973 television film ''The Blue Knight''. Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including such blockbusters as ''Sunset Boulevard'', ''Sabrina'', ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'', ''The Wild Bunch'', ''Picnic'', ''The Towering Inferno'', and ''Network''. He was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema. ==Early life and career== Holden was born William Franklin Beedle, Jr. in O'Fallon, Illinois, the son of Mary Blanche (née Ball; 1898-1990), a schoolteacher, and William Franklin Beedle, Sr. (1891-1967), an industrial chemist.〔( "Ancestry of William Holden." ) ''Genealogy.com.'' Retrieved: November 13, 2011.〕 He had two younger brothers, Robert and Richard. Holden's paternal great-grandmother, Rebecca Westfield, was born in England in 1817, while some of his mother's ancestors settled in Virginia's Lancaster County after emigrating from England in the 17th century.〔 His younger brother, Robert W. "Bobbie" Beedle, became a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and was killed in action in World War II, over New Ireland, on January 5, 1944. His family moved to South Pasadena when he was three. After graduating from South Pasadena High School, Holden attended Pasadena Junior College, where he became involved in local radio plays. Contrary to legend and theatre publicity, he did not study at the Pasadena Playhouse, nor was he discovered in a play there. Rather, he was spotted by a talent scout from Paramount Pictures in 1937 while playing the part of an 80-year-old man, Marie Curie's father-in-law, in a play at the Playbox, a separate and private theatre owned by Pasadena Playhouse director Gilmor Brown. His first film role was in ''Prison Farm'' the following year. A version of how he obtained his stage name "Holden" is based on a statement by George Ross of ''Billboard magazine'': "William Holden, the lad just signed for the coveted lead in “Golden Boy”, used to be Bill Beadle. And here is how he obtained his new movie tag. On the Columbia lot is an assistant director and scout named Harold Winston. Not long ago he was divorced from the actress, Gloria Holden, but carried the torch after the marital rift. Winston was one of those who discovered the “Golden Boy” newcomer and who renamed him — in honor of his former spouse! ..."〔Ross, George. ("Broadway: 'Golden Boy'." ) ''The Pittsburgh Press'', April 12, 1939, p. 23.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Holden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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