William Boyd

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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…

  • Acting
  • Born 4 June 1895
  • Died 12 September 1972 (age 77)
  • Hendrysburg, Ohio, USA
  • 145 credits

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Most-watched William Boyd films currently: The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), The Movie Orgy (1968), The King of Kings (1927), Television: The First Fifty Years (1999), Hollywood (1923).

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Selected TV credits: Hopalong Cassidy (1952), Western von gestern (1978).

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