William Boyd (actor)

William Boyd (June 5, 1895 - September 12, 1972) was an American actor.

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June 5 - 1895 - September 12 - 1972 - American

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Born William Lawrence Boyd in Cambridge, Ohio, he was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He became famous as a Hollywood leading man in silent film romances, but his career began to slide by the decade's end due to public problems with alcohol and women. Reforming himself, he re-established his professional fame in the Western film genre, playing cowboy-hero Hopalong Cassidy, beginning in 1935, a role with which he was ever after indelibly associated and which films (66 in all) are still currently available on television and DVD in physically restored form. He made the cover of the November 27, 1950 issue of Time Magazine.

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Cambridge, Ohio - Tulsa, Oklahoma - Hollywood - Western film - Hopalong Cassidy - Restored - Time Magazine

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William Boyd died in 1972 in Laguna Beach, California and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. He is survived by his wife, actress Grace Bradley Boyd.

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Laguna Beach, California - Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery - Glendale, California - Grace Bradley

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For his contribution to the motion picture industry, William Boyd has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1734 Vine Street. In 1995, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame - Western Performers Hall of Fame - National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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