FrameThrower · Actors · William Holden
William Holden
4 films · 259 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1950–1969
Born 17 April 1918 · O'Fallon, Illinois, USA · died 12 November 1981
William Holden was an American actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1953 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1950s, he was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961) and appeared on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years…100 Stars list as #25.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 259 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1950–1969
- Academy Award for Best Actor1954
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1974
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 259 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work William takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 41% low key — the look of the work William takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 259 frames from William Holden's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.