威廉·霍尔登出生于一个富裕家庭，三岁的时候，他的家搬到了加州的帕萨迪纳，他的父亲是一名工厂药剂师，母亲是一名老师。1973年，还在帕萨迪纳专科学校攻读化学专业的威廉就已经和派拉蒙公司签下了一份电影合同50年代是威廉·霍尔登演艺事业的鼎盛时期，出演了《野餐》（Picnic）等影片。此...
American actor and occasional screenwriter. One of the most frequently seen heavies in films and television programs of the 1950s, his name is nevertheless well known only to buffs. Occasionally he played minor leads and sympathetic characters, but his stern good looks and rich deep voice made him a memorable villain, particularly in Westerns.
A rather wanderlust fellow before he latched onto acting, Denver Pyle--who made a career of playing drawling, somewhat slow Southern types--was actually born in Colorado in 1920, to a farming family. He attended a university for a time but dropped out to become a drummer. When that didn't pan out he drifted from job to job, doing everything from working the oil fields in Oklahoma to the shrimp boats in Texas. In 1940 he moseyed off to Los Angeles and briefly found employment as a (somewhat unlikely) NBC page. That particular career was interrupted by World War II, and Pyle enlisted in the navy. Wounded in the battle of Guadalcanal, he received a medical discharge in 1943.
