William Holden

:For the North Carolina Governor by this name, please see William Woods Holden. For the California Lieutenant Governor by this name, please see William Holden (politician).

Later career

In 1969 he had a role in director Sam Peckinpah's graphically violent movie The Wild Bunch. He was praised for his leading performance in Network (1976), playing an older version of the character type he had perfected in the 1950s, now more jaded and aware of his own mortality. In 1980 Holden appeared in The Earthling with child actor Ricky Schroder, playing a loner dying of cancer who goes to the Australian Outback to end his days, meets a young boy whose parents have been killed in an accident and teaches him to survive. Schroder thought so highly of Holden, he named one of his sons after him.

Related Topics:
Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch - Network - Ricky Schroder - Australia - Outback

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