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Franklin safari3/16/2024 ![]() ![]() After graduating from South Pasadena High School, Holden attended Pasadena Junior College, where he became involved in local radio plays. His family moved to South Pasadena when he was three. Navy fighter pilot and was killed in action in World War II, over New Ireland, a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific, on January 5, 1944. One of his father's grandmothers, Rebecca Westfield, was born in England in 1817, while some of his mother's ancestors settled in Virginia's Lancaster County after emigrating from England in the 17th century. He had two younger brothers, Robert Westfield Beedle (1921–1944) and Richard Porter Beedle (1924–1964). Holden was born William Franklin Beedle, Jr., on April 17, 1918, in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball, 1898–1990), a schoolteacher, and her husband William Franklin Beedle (1891–1967), an industrial chemist. Cobb (right) in Holden's first starring role in a film, Golden Boy (1939) ![]()
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