Was William Holden a good actor?
And was he good looking?
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He was a good actor but it was too bad that he made very few noir, my favorite genre the one I know is Union Station, he made a lot of wars movies, comedies, and Stalag 17 althought a good movie was not the first movie about POW, during the war there were a lot of movie propaganda either British or American and several were about POW.
But I stil think that the Golden Boy should be perfomed by Garfield who did on stage.
I agree that John Garfield should have played Golden Boy in the movie but Columbia couldn't get him from Warners. He didn't originate the role on stage, though. Luther Adler did, though he played it on stage many years later.
BTW, Hi, Linus!
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Yes, redsky, even though he was a bit old for the part, I thought he was really wonderful in that role.
The time of the singing of the birds has come.
Yes, to both questions. Starting with Golden Boy all the way forward to Network.
The time of the singing of the birds has come.
...very good actor...good looks are relative...beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
shareYes, I thought that William Holden was a great actor (with the exception of The Towering Inferno). He was awesome in Sunset Boulevard. And, as I like to call it, realistically gorgeous.
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The short answer to both is yes.