William Holden's Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds

In the record

William Franklin Holden (né Beedle; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for April 17 is the 4 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1954 Best Actor — Stalag 17 win.

Academy Award record

• 1954 Best Actor — Stalag 17

The 4 of Diamonds coordinate

William Holden's birthday maps to the 4 of Diamonds (The Financial Foundation Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on William Holden. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.

Live 4 of Diamonds meaning page

William Holden in the public record

He was an Academy Award and Primetime Emmy Award winner, and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. He was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classical Hollywood cinema. Holden began appearing in films the late 1930s, playing his first lead role in the boxing drama Golden Boy (1939). He would establish himself as a reliable and bankable leading man during the following decade, twice winning the National Board of Review Award, and would gain further critical recognition with his performance as Joe Gillis in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950). In 1954, he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a prisoner-of-war in Wilder's Stalag 17. Holden would go star in a several popular and critically-acclaimed films, including Sabrina (1954), Executive Suite (1954), Picnic (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The World of Suzie Wong (1960), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Network (1976). He won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the made-for-TV film The Blue Knight (1973).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article William Holden (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 4♦, 5♥, 5♠, 6♣, 2♦, 8♠, 2♠, 8♥, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 10♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Oscar.

Other winners with this card

• Kate Winslet — 2009 Best Actress — The Reader
• Yul Brynner — 1957 Best Actor — The King and I

FAQ

What is William Holden's birth card?

The 4 of Diamonds. April 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do William Holden's dates come from?

Birth date 1918-04-17 is the day-precision date on William Holden's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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