William Boyd
俳優1895-06-04Hendrysburg, 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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出演作品（142）
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Hollywood
Western von gestern
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
His First Command
It's Showtime
Eve's Leaves
Port of Lost Dreams
Dress Parade
Moran of the Lady Letty
The Young Rajah
Old Wives for New
The Yankee Clipper
The King of Kings
Something to Think About
地上最大のショウ
The Movie Orgy
The Volga Boatman
Forbidden Fruit
The Road to Yesterday
Lucky Devils
命を売る男
Three Men from Texas
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
The Midshipman
The Cop
Brewster's Millions
Racing Luck
Burning Gold
On the High Seas
Power
Borrowed Trouble
In Old Colorado
Emergency Call
Two Arabian Knights
Cassidy of Bar 20
Skyscraper
The Affairs of Anatol
Hopalong Rides Again
North of the Rio Grande
The Flying Fool
Flaming Gold
Lumberjack
Saturday Night
Border Patrol
Hidden Gold
Hoppy Serves a Writ
Santa Fe Marshal
Hop-a-long Cassidy
Rustlers' Valley
The Leatherneck
Colt Comrades
Manslaughter
Hopalong Cassidy
The Devil's Playground
The Showdown
Undercover Man
Border Vigilantes
Sunset Trail
Borderland
Bar 20 Rides Again
Texas Trail
Heart of Arizona
Carnival Boat
The Night Flyer
The Painted Desert
Leather Burners
The Eagle's Brood
Bar 20 Justice
Call of the Prairie
High Voltage
Die Lady von der Straße
Sinister Journey
False Paradise
Lost Canyon
Three on the Trail
Suicide Fleet
Go-Get-'Em, Haines
Riders of the Deadline
Dangerous Venture
Stagecoach War
Stick to Your Guns
The Dead Don't Dream
Strange Gamble
Unexpected Guest
Silent Conflict
The Marauders
Twilight on the Trail
Secret of the Wastelands
Pride of the West
Law of the Pampas
Renegade Trail
The Frontiersmen
Range War
Heart of the West
Trail Dust
Men Of America
Bar 20
False Colors
Officer O'Brien
Doomed Caravan
Forty Thieves
Mystery Man
Fool's Gold
Pirates on Horseback
Wide Open Town
Hoppy's Holiday
Texas Masquerade
Outlaws of the Desert
Silver on the Sage
In Old Mexico
Partners of the Plains
Hills of Old Wyoming
Riders of the Timberline
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Bobbed Hair
The Temple of Venus
Enemies of Children
After the Show
Forty Winks
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
New Lives for Old
A Wise Fool
The Six Best Cellars
Cheaters
Beyond Victory
Nice People
Land of Liberty
Feet of Clay
Federal Agent
Her Man o' War
Michael O'Halloran
Changing Husbands
Tarnish
A City Sparrow
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
The Last Frontier
Jim the Conqueror
Exit the Vamp
The Jucklins
The City of Masks