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