Bill Holden, a.k.a. "Cowboy Bill", a.k.a. Chad Evans (acting stage name)...

Bill was born in 1941 in Smyrna, GA. He lived there until after graduating from Campbell High School in 1959, and then joined the U.S. Navy. He left the Navy in 1963, worked as a police officer in Smyrna for a month, but then re-enlisted in the Navy as an Active Duty Reservist at NAS, Atlanta.

In his spare time, Bill became quite interested in entertainment. A Navy pal started a record company, and Bill became successful at taking the 45 records to AM stations to have them played. He thoroughly enjoyed it.

In 1965, Bill was transferred to Los Alamitos, CA. He then served as a recruiter in Burbank, CA -- right across from Warner Brothers Studios. He eventually had the good fortune to work as an extra on several TV series, including:

Bonanza
Guns of Will Sonnet
High Chaparral

And a movie:

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Bill had the opportunity to work with John Wayne, and he was honored to meet and talk with "The Man."

In 1967, Bill formed his own stunt group, performing at many events all over Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona. The group was a protologue for 32 parades in Southern California, and was voted Number One Stunt Demolition Team two years in a row there (1969 & 1970).

Retiring from the Navy in 1979, Bill moved back to Kennesaw, GA. There he was Chief of Security at Northside Hospital for three years, and Supervisor of Security at J.C. Penney's in Cumberland Mall for two years.

In 1984, Bill began working as an actor in several movies made in Georgia and in North & South Carolina, such as:

Fried Green Tomatoes
My Cousin Vinnie
Not Without My Daughter
Consenting Adults
RoboCop III
Six Pack

Other TV show appearances by Bill included:

Passion for Justice
I'll Fly Away
Paris Trout
In the Heat of the Night
Rose and the Jackal

Bill used the stage name "Chad Evans" during his career as an actor (so as not to be confused with the other man known as "William Holden"), but he stopped doing acting work in 1995 due to health reasons. Then from 1998 to 2001, he was a principle character on the Radio Morning Madness Show at WMOQ in Monroe. Finally, in May of 2003, Bill started doing "The Cowboy Way Show" on WIMO.

Bill has a wife and five grown children. He and his wife now live in Walnut Grove, GA...along with a dog named Maggie, a cat named BoBo, and several other pets. To his fans, Bill says, "I perform cowboy music to preserve a beautiful way of life that is slowly leaving us, and I hope the listening audience will like what we do and will look back to their younger years and reminisce."