William Boyd
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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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Películas (143)
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
2000 · (archive footage)
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999 · Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991 · Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · (archive footage)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976 · (archive footage)
It's Showtime
1976 · Self (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
Little Smokey
1953 · Hopalong Cassidy
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952 · Hopalong Cassidy (uncredited)
Strange Gamble
1948 · Hopalong Cassidy
False Paradise
1948 · William "Hopalong" Cassidy
Borrowed Trouble
1948 · Hopalong Cassidy
Sinister Journey
1948 · Hopalong Cassidy
The Dead Don't Dream
1948 · Hopalong Cassidy
Silent Conflict
1948 · Hopalong Cassidy
Hoppy's Holiday
1947 · Hopalong Cassidy
The Marauders
1947 · Hopalong Cassidy
Dangerous Venture
1947 · Hopalong Cassidy
Unexpected Guest
1947 · Hopalong Cassidy
The Devil's Playground
1946 · Hopalong Cassidy
Fool's Gold
1946 · Hopalong Cassidy
Forty Thieves
1944 · Hopalong Cassidy
Mystery Man
1944 · Hopalong Cassidy
Lumberjack
1944 · Hopalong Cassidy
Texas Masquerade
1944 · Hopalong Cassidy
Riders of the Deadline
1943 · Ranger William "Hopalong" Cassidy
False Colors
1943 · Hopalong Cassidy
Bar 20
1943 · Hopalong Cassidy
Colt Comrades
1943 · Hopalong Cassidy
Leather Burners
1943 · Hopalong Cassidy
Border Patrol
1943 · Hopalong Cassidy
Hoppy Serves a Writ
1943 · Hopalong Cassidy
Lost Canyon
1942 · Hopalong Cassidy
Undercover Man
1942 · Hopalong Cassidy
Secret of the Wastelands
1941 · Hopalong Cassidy
Outlaws of the Desert
1941 · Hopalong Cassidy
Twilight on the Trail
1941 · Hopalong Cassidy
Riders of the Timberline
1941 · Hopalong Cassidy
Stick to Your Guns
1941 · Hopalong Cassidy
Wide Open Town
1941 · Hopalong Cassidy
Pirates on Horseback
1941 · Hopalong Cassidy
Border Vigilantes
1941 · Hopalong Cassidy
In Old Colorado
1941 · Hopalong Cassidy
Doomed Caravan
1941 · Hopalong Cassidy
Three Men from Texas
1940 · Hopalong Cassidy
Stagecoach War
1940 · Hopalong Cassidy
Hidden Gold
1940 · Hopalong Cassidy
The Showdown
1940 · Hopalong Cassidy
Santa Fe Marshal
1940 · Hopalong Cassidy
Law of the Pampas
1939 · Hopalong Cassidy
Range War
1939 · Hopalong Cassidy
Renegade Trail
1939 · Hopalong Cassidy
Land of Liberty
1939 · (archive footage)
Silver on the Sage
1939 · Hopalong Cassidy
Sunset Trail
1939 · Hopalong Cassidy
The Frontiersmen
1938 · Hopalong Cassidy
In Old Mexico
1938 · Hopalong Cassidy
Pride of the West
1938 · Hopalong Cassidy
Bar 20 Justice
1938 · Hopalong Cassidy
Heart of Arizona
1938 · Hopalong Cassidy
Cassidy of Bar 20
1938 · Hopalong Cassidy
Partners of the Plains
1938 · Hopalong Cassidy
Texas Trail
1937 · Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Rides Again
1937 · Hopalong Cassidy
Rustlers' Valley
1937 · Hopalong Cassidy
North of the Rio Grande
1937 · Hopalong Cassidy
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937 · Hopalong Cassidy
Borderland
1937 · Hopalong Cassidy
Trail Dust
1936 · Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936 · Hopalong Cassidy
Go-Get-'Em, Haines
1936 · Steve Haines
Burning Gold
1936 · Jim Thornton
Three on the Trail
1936 · Hopalong Cassidy
Federal Agent
1936 · Bob Woods
Call of the Prairie
1936 · Hopalong Cassidy
Heart of the West
1936 · Hopalong Cassidy
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935 · Hopalong Cassidy
Racing Luck
1935 · Dan Morgan
The Eagle's Brood
1935 · Hopalong Cassidy
Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935 · Hopalong Cassidy
Port of Lost Dreams
1934 · Lars Christensen
Cheaters
1934 · Steve Morris
Emergency Call
1933 · Joe Bradley
Lucky Devils
1933 · Skipper Clark
Men Of America
1932 · Jim Parker, Director
Flaming Gold
1932 · Dan Manton
Carnival Boat
1932 · Buck Gannon
Suicide Fleet
1931 · Baltimore
The Big Gamble
1931 · Alan Beckwith
Beyond Victory
1931 · Bill Thatcher
The Painted Desert
1931 · Bill Holbrook
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
1930 · William Boyd
Officer O'Brien
1930 · Bill O'Brien
His First Command
1929 · Terry Culver
The Flying Fool
1929 · Bill Taylor
High Voltage
1929 · Bill
The Leatherneck
1929 · William Calhoun
Lady of the Pavements
1929 · Karl Von Arnim
Power
1928 · Husky
The Cop
1928 · Pete Smith
Skyscraper
1928 · Blondy
The Night Flyer
1928 · Jimmy Bradley
Dress Parade
1927 · Vic Donovan
Two Arabian Knights
1927 · Daingerfield Phelps
The Yankee Clipper
1927 · Hal Winslow
The King of Kings
1927 · Simon Of Cyrene
Jim the Conqueror
1926 · Jim Burgess
Her Man o' War
1926 · Jim Sanderson
The Last Frontier
1926 · Tom Kirby
The Volga Boatman
1926 · Feodor
Eve's Leaves
1926 · Bill Stanley
The Road to Yesterday
1925 · Jack Moreland
The Midshipman
1925 · Spud
New Lives for Old
1925 · Soldier (uncredited)
Forty Winks
1925 · Lt. Gerald Hugh Butterworth
Feet of Clay
1924 · Young Society Man (uncredited)
Tarnish
1924 · Bill
Changing Husbands
1924 · Conrad Bardshaw
Enemies of Children
1923 · Sidney Godfrey
The Temple of Venus
1923 · Stanley Dale
Hollywood
1923 · William Boyd
Michael O'Halloran
1923 · Douglas Bruce
The Young Rajah
1922 · Stephen Van Kovert
Manslaughter
1922 · (uncredited)
On the High Seas
1922 · Dick Deveraux
Nice People
1922 · Oliver Comstock
Moran of the Lady Letty
1922 · Ramon's Friend at Homecoming
Saturday Night
1922 · Party Guest
Bobbed Hair
1922 · Dick Barton
Exit the Vamp
1921 · Robert Pitts
After the Show
1921 · (uncredited)
The Affairs of Anatol
1921 · Guest
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
1921 · Robert V. Courtney
A Wise Fool
1921 · Gerard Fynes
Brewster's Millions
1921 · Harrison
The Jucklins
1921 · Dan Stuart
Forbidden Fruit
1921 · Billiards Player
A City Sparrow
1920 · Hughie Ray
Something to Think About
1920 · (uncredited)
The City of Masks
1920 · Carpenter
The Six Best Cellars
1920 · Holsappel (uncredited)
Was He Guilty?
1919
Old Wives for New
1918 · (uncredited)
