William Boyd
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 4, 1895
- Died
- Sep 12, 1972 (aged 77)
- Place of birth
- Hendrysburg, Ohio, USA
- Credits
- 145
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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.
Known for
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952Movie
Hopalong Cassidy (uncredited)
The King of Kings
1927Movie
Simon Of Cyrene
Two Arabian Knights
1927Movie
Daingerfield Phelps
The Painted Desert
1931Movie
Bill Holbrook
The Movie Orgy
1968Movie
Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
Manslaughter
1922Movie
(uncredited)
Filmography
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
2000Movie
(archive footage)
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999Movie
Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991Movie
Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984Movie
(archive footage)
Western von gestern
1978TV
Bill Holbrook (archive footage)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976Movie
(archive footage)
It's Showtime
1976Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy
1968Movie
Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
Little Smokey
1953Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy
1952TV
Hopalong Cassidy
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952Movie
Hopalong Cassidy (uncredited)
Strange Gamble
1948Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
False Paradise
1948Movie
William "Hopalong" Cassidy
Borrowed Trouble
1948Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Sinister Journey
1948Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
The Dead Don't Dream
1948Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Silent Conflict
1948Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Hoppy's Holiday
1947Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
The Marauders
1947Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Dangerous Venture
1947Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Unexpected Guest
1947Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
The Devil's Playground
1946Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Fool's Gold
1946Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Forty Thieves
1944Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Mystery Man
1944Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Lumberjack
1944Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Texas Masquerade
1944Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Riders of the Deadline
1943Movie
Ranger William "Hopalong" Cassidy
False Colors
1943Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Bar 20
1943Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Colt Comrades
1943Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Leather Burners
1943Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Border Patrol
1943Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Hoppy Serves a Writ
1943Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Lost Canyon
1942Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Undercover Man
1942Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Secret of the Wastelands
1941Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Outlaws of the Desert
1941Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Twilight on the Trail
1941Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Riders of the Timberline
1941Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Stick to Your Guns
1941Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Wide Open Town
1941Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Pirates on Horseback
1941Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Border Vigilantes
1941Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
In Old Colorado
1941Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Doomed Caravan
1941Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Three Men from Texas
1940Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Stagecoach War
1940Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Hidden Gold
1940Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
The Showdown
1940Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Santa Fe Marshal
1940Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Law of the Pampas
1939Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Range War
1939Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Renegade Trail
1939Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Land of Liberty
1939Movie
(archive footage)
Silver on the Sage
1939Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Sunset Trail
1939Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
The Frontiersmen
1938Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
In Old Mexico
1938Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Pride of the West
1938Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Bar 20 Justice
1938Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Heart of Arizona
1938Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Cassidy of Bar 20
1938Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Partners of the Plains
1938Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Texas Trail
1937Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Rides Again
1937Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Rustlers' Valley
1937Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
North of the Rio Grande
1937Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Borderland
1937Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Trail Dust
1936Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Go-Get-'Em, Haines
1936Movie
Steve Haines
Burning Gold
1936Movie
Jim Thornton
Three on the Trail
1936Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Federal Agent
1936Movie
Bob Woods
Call of the Prairie
1936Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Heart of the West
1936Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Racing Luck
1935Movie
Dan Morgan
The Eagle's Brood
1935Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935Movie
Hopalong Cassidy
Port of Lost Dreams
1934Movie
Lars Christensen
Cheaters
1934Movie
Steve Morris
Emergency Call
1933Movie
Joe Bradley
Lucky Devils
1933Movie
Skipper Clark
Men Of America
1932Movie
Jim Parker
Flaming Gold
1932Movie
Dan Manton
Carnival Boat
1932Movie
Buck Gannon
Suicide Fleet
1931Movie
Baltimore
The Big Gamble
1931Movie
Alan Beckwith
Beyond Victory
1931Movie
Bill Thatcher
The Painted Desert
1931Movie
Bill Holbrook
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
1930Movie
William Boyd
Officer O'Brien
1930Movie
Bill O'Brien
His First Command
1929Movie
Terry Culver
The Flying Fool
1929Movie
Bill Taylor
High Voltage
1929Movie
Bill
The Leatherneck
1929Movie
William Calhoun
Lady of the Pavements
1929Movie
Karl Von Arnim
Power
1928Movie
Husky
The Cop
1928Movie
Pete Smith
Skyscraper
1928Movie
Blondy
The Night Flyer
1928Movie
Jimmy Bradley
Dress Parade
1927Movie
Vic Donovan
Two Arabian Knights
1927Movie
Daingerfield Phelps
The Yankee Clipper
1927Movie
Hal Winslow
The King of Kings
1927Movie
Simon Of Cyrene
Jim the Conqueror
1926Movie
Jim Burgess
Her Man o' War
1926Movie
Jim Sanderson
The Last Frontier
1926Movie
Tom Kirby
The Volga Boatman
1926Movie
Feodor
Eve's Leaves
1926Movie
Bill Stanley
The Road to Yesterday
1925Movie
Jack Moreland
The Midshipman
1925Movie
Spud
New Lives for Old
1925Movie
Soldier (uncredited)
Forty Winks
1925Movie
Lt. Gerald Hugh Butterworth
Feet of Clay
1924Movie
Young Society Man (uncredited)
Tarnish
1924Movie
Bill
Changing Husbands
1924Movie
Conrad Bardshaw
Enemies of Children
1923Movie
Sidney Godfrey
The Temple of Venus
1923Movie
Stanley Dale
Hollywood
1923Movie
William Boyd
Michael O'Halloran
1923Movie
Douglas Bruce
The Young Rajah
1922Movie
Stephen Van Kovert
Manslaughter
1922Movie
(uncredited)
On the High Seas
1922Movie
Dick Deveraux
Nice People
1922Movie
Oliver Comstock
Moran of the Lady Letty
1922Movie
Ramon's Friend at Homecoming
Saturday Night
1922Movie
Party Guest
Bobbed Hair
1922Movie
Dick Barton
Exit the Vamp
1921Movie
Robert Pitts
After the Show
1921Movie
(uncredited)
The Affairs of Anatol
1921Movie
Guest
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
1921Movie
Robert V. Courtney
A Wise Fool
1921Movie
Gerard Fynes
Brewster's Millions
1921Movie
Harrison
The Jucklins
1921Movie
Dan Stuart
Forbidden Fruit
1921Movie
Billiards Player
A City Sparrow
1920Movie
Hughie Ray
Something to Think About
1920Movie
(uncredited)
The City of Masks
1920Movie
Carpenter
The Six Best Cellars
1920Movie
Holsappel (uncredited)
Was He Guilty?
1919Movie
Old Wives for New
1918Movie
(uncredited)