William Holden
William Franklin Holden 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).
17 April 1918
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Born in the same month (April 1918): Astrid Varnay • Betty Ford • Bobby Doerr • Eddy Christiani • Gérard de Vaucouleurs • Mary Healy (entertainer) • Richard Wainwright (politician) • William Jay Smith