Actor William Holden found dead at home

On Nov. 17, 1981, The Times re­por­ted that Wil­li­am Hold­en, whose hand­some face and easy, mas­cu­line man­ner made him the quint­es­sen­tial Amer­ic­an in many movies, was found dead in his apart­ment in Santa Mon­ica. He was 62.