Actor: William Holden
William Holden won Best Actor for Stalag 17, playing a prisoner of war whose profiteering makes him the least likeable man in the camp and eventually the most useful.
Sunset Boulevard is the better film, narrating from the swimming pool he is floating dead in, and Wilder used him again for Sabrina.
The Wild Bunch and Network are the late performances, and Network earned a nomination for a man watching his profession become something he does not recognise.
He drank heavily for decades and died alone in 1981 after a fall, which was not discovered for several days.
