William Boyd

William Boyd

Acting 1895-06-04 Hendrysburg, Ohio, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Lawrence Boyd (June 5, 1895 – September 12, 1972) was an American film actor who is best known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy. Boyd was born in Hendrysburg, Ohio, and reared in Cambridge, Ohio and Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was the son of a day laborer, Charles William Boyd, and his wife, the former Lida Wilkens (aka Lyda). Following his father's death, he moved to California and worked as an orange picker, surveyor, tool dresser and auto salesman. In Hollywood, he found work as an extra in Why Change Your Wife? and other films. During World War I, he enlisted in the army but was exempt from military service because of a "weak heart". More prominent film roles followed, including his breakout role as Jack Moreland in Cecil B. DeMille's The Road to Yesterday (1925) which starred also Joseph Schildkraut, Jetta Goudal, and Vera Reynolds. Boyd's performance in the film was praised by critics, while movie-goers were equally impressed by his easy charm, charisma, and intense good-looks. Due to Boyd's growing popularity, DeMille soon cast him as the leading man in the highly acclaimed silent drama film, The Volga Boatman. Boyd's role as Feodor blew critics away, and with Boyd now firmly established as a matinee idol and romantic leading man, he began earning an annual salary of $100,000. He acted in DeMille's extravaganza The King of Kings (in which he played Simon of Cyrene, helping Jesus carry the cross) and DeMille's Skyscraper (1928). He then appeared in D.W. Griffith's Lady of the Pavements (1929). Radio Pictures ended Boyd's contract in 1931 when his picture was mistakenly run in a newspaper story about the arrest of another actor, William "Stage" Boyd, on gambling and liquor charges. Although the newspaper apologized, explaining the mistake in the following day's newspaper, Boyd said, "The damage was already done." William "Stage" Boyd died in 1935, the same year William L. Boyd became Hopalong Cassidy, the role that led to his enduring fame. But at the time in 1931, Boyd was virtually broke and without a job, and for a few years he was credited in films as "Bill Boyd" to prevent being mistaken for the other William Boyd.

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1999 Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
1991 Self (archive footage)
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1978 Bill Holbrook (archive footage)
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1976 Self (archive footage)
1968 Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
1953 Hopalong Cassidy
1952 Hopalong Cassidy (uncredited)
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1952 Hopalong Cassidy
1952 Producer
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1936 Steve Haines
1936 Bob Woods
1936 Jim Thornton
1935 Hopalong Cassidy
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1935 Dan Morgan
1934 Lars Christensen
1934 Steve Morris
1933 Skipper Clark
1933 Joe Bradley
1932 Buck Gannon
1932 Jim Parker
1932 Dan Manton
1932 Director
1931 Alan Beckwith
1931 Baltimore
1931 Bill Holbrook
1931 Bill Thatcher
1930 William Boyd
1930 Bill O'Brien
1929 Bill
1929 Bill Taylor
1929 Karl Von Arnim
1929 Terry Culver
1929 William Calhoun
1928 Pete Smith
1928 Jimmy Bradley
1928 Blondy
1928 Husky
1927 Hal Winslow
1927 Vic Donovan
1927 Daingerfield Phelps
1927 Simon Of Cyrene
1926 Feodor
1926 Jim Sanderson
1926 Bill Stanley
1926 Tom Kirby
1926 Jim Burgess
1925 Lt. Gerald Hugh Butterworth
1925 Soldier (uncredited)
1925 Spud
1925 Jack Moreland
1924 Young Society Man (uncredited)
1924 Conrad Bardshaw
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1923 Stanley Dale
1923 Sidney Godfrey
1923 William Boyd
1923 Douglas Bruce
1922 Dick Barton
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1922 Oliver Comstock
1922 Ramon's Friend at Homecoming
1922 Stephen Van Kovert
1922 Party Guest
1922 Dick Deveraux
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1921 Gerard Fynes
1921 Harrison
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1921 Billiards Player
1921 Robert V. Courtney
1921 Robert Pitts
1921 Dan Stuart
1920 Holsappel (uncredited)
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1920 Hughie Ray
1920 Carpenter
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