On this day 100 years ago, one of cinema’s finest actors was born, the great William Holden! He’s easily among my top 5 favorite actors of all-time (maybe even top 3 or 2!); no matter the quality of the movie he’s in, he always turns out a good performance. For his centenary, I’m focusing on…
While there are many stars that have appeared in at least three or four movies that have been praised as being among cinema’s greatest, William Holden is one of the small few who starred in more than a handful of movies that have been deemed the best of all time, and I don’t think that’s much of…
William Holden is one of my favorite actors ever, and he might be the one actor I was instantly struck by when I first saw him. After seeing him for the first time in Sabrina, I immediately needed to see more of his work, and 24 hours later I had seen two more of his films…
For the second and final part of my 2012 film odyssey, I’ll just be noting filmographies of actors (all from the classic Hollywood era) and directors I delved into in the past year. Films are listed in the order in which I watched them, and titles in italics are personal favorites.