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William Holmes is a Actor and Editor American born on 17 march 1877 at the Bronx (USA)

William Holmes

William Holmes
William Holmes participated to 49 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 4 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Editor

Sergeant York, 2h14
Directed by Don Siegel, Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly
Roles Editor
Rating76% 3.84693.84693.84693.84693.8469
Alvin York (Gary Cooper), a poor young Tennessee hillbilly, is an exceptional marksman, but a ne'er-do-well prone to drinking and fighting, which does not make things any easier for his patient mother (Margaret Wycherly). He changes when he meets Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie), and works night and day to buy a good farm so she'll marry him. When he's cheated out of it at the last minute, he returns to his dissolute ways.
Svengali
Svengali (1931)
, 1h21
Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Actors John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp, Bramwell Fletcher, Carmel Myers, Luis Alberni
Roles Editor
Rating67% 3.39193.39193.39193.39193.3919
The ending of the novel is changed in this film to a highly dramatic one by having Trilby die after Svengali is stricken with a fatal heart attack, instead of dying of a mysterious illness a few days later. She faints after he collapses in the stage box, but Svengali revives long enough to gasp, "Oh God, grant me in death what you denied me in life—the woman I love". Trilby regains consciousness, smiles happily, utters "Svengali!", then dies, followed by Svengali, who dies smiling. In the film Billee survives.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1h33
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Évasion
Actors Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Noel Francis, Allen Jenkins
Roles Editor
Rating81% 4.0960154.0960154.0960154.0960154.096015
Sergeant James Allen (Paul Muni) returns to civilian life after World War I but his war experience makes him restless. His family feels he should be grateful for a tedious job as an office clerk, and when he announces that he wants to become an engineer, they react with outrage. He leaves home to find work on any sort of project, but unskilled labor is plentiful and it's hard for him to find a job. Wandering and sinking into poverty, he accidentally becomes caught up in a robbery and is sentenced to ten years on a brutal Southern chain gang.
Dark Victory, 1h44
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer, Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Henry Travers, Ronald Reagan
Roles Editor
Rating73% 3.697013.697013.697013.697013.69701
Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a young, carefree, hedonistic Long Island socialite and heiress with a passion for horses, fast cars, and too much smoking and drinking. She initially ignores severe headaches and brief episodes of dizziness and double vision, but when she uncharacteristically takes a spill while riding, and then tumbles down a flight of stairs, her secretary and best friend Ann King (Geraldine Fitzgerald) insists she see the family doctor, who refers her to a specialist.