William Boyd Overview:

Legendary actor, William Boyd, was born on Jun 5, 1895 in Hendrysburg, OH. Boyd died at the age of 77 on Sep 12, 1972 in Laguna Beach, CA and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Cemetery in Glendale, CA.

MINI BIO:

Ohio-born Hollywood star who earned himself security, popularity, and a niche in screen history when he started playing the western hero Hopalong Cassidy in 1935. A pillar of respectability and two-fisted justice, Cassidy was perhaps the only cowboy to match white hair with a black outfit. Boyd took the character with him into TV in 1948: Married four times, his last wife (from 1937) being actress Grace Bradley. Died from Parkinson's Disease.

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HONORS and AWARDS:

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. In addition, Boyd was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and was immortalized on a US postal stamp in 2009. Boyd was never nominated for an Academy Award.

William Boyd BlogHub Articles:

William Boyd ~ The Yankee Clipper (1927)

By Clayton on Nov 18, 2015 From Phantom Empires

William Boyd ~ The Yankee Clipper (1927) 11/18/2015 2 Comments (This is a look-back review...I was thinking about it, so I thought I'd repost!)It, ladies and gentleman, is the birthday of one of my favourite a... Read full article


Go-Get-'Em, Haines - William Boyd (1936)

By Clayton on Sep 6, 2014 From Phantom Empires

Go-Get-'Em, Haines - William Boyd (1936) 9/6/2014 0 Comments Go-Get-em Haines is a fun b-reel-type picture from 1936; it stars the lovely Eleanor Hunt (who charmingly co-starred alongside John Wayne in the 1934 Western Blue Steel), bu... Read full article


Go-Get-'Em, Haines - William Boyd (1936)

By Clayton on Sep 6, 2014 From Phantom Empires

Go-Get-'Em, Haines - William Boyd (1936) 9/6/2014 0 Comments Go-Get-em Haines is a fun b-reel-type picture from 1936; it stars the lovely Eleanor Hunt (who charmingly co-starred alongside John Wayne in the 1934 Western Blue Steel), but more importantly, it ... Read full article


Happy Birthday William Boyd! (June 5, 1895) ~ The Yankee Clipper (1927)

By Clayton on Jun 4, 2014 From Phantom Empires

Happy Birthday William Boyd! (June 5, 1895) ~ The Yankee Clipper (1927) 6/4/2014 2 Comments It, ladies and gentleman, is the birthday of one of my favourite actors; the man behind the legendary Hopalong Cassidy, William Boyd! Well, as most people al... Read full article


William Boyd (1895-1972) Silent Movie Star Biography

By Movies, Silently on Feb 6, 2013 From Movies Silently

There were two William Boyds acting in Hollywood during the silent era. The first was a young man from Tulsa, Oklahoma who would enjoy star billing and roles with some of the best directors and actors of the silent era. The second, known as William ?Stage? Boyd was a stage actor who had a minor care... Read full article


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William Boyd Quotes:

[Hoppy has emerged from a gunfight]
Johnny Nelson: You okay, Hoppy?
Hopalong Cassidy: Sure! Just smoked up a bit.


[to Johnny, who has a bad hangover]
Hopalong Cassidy: You look like the tail end of a hard winter.


[last lines]
Hopalong Cassidy: Well, Miss Linda, it looks like you'll need some help around here.
Johnny Nelson: Just leave it to me, Hoppy!
Hopalong Cassidy: That's just what I'm afraid of.


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William Boyd Facts
Appears as Hopalong Cassidy, with Topper the Horse, on a 44¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Early TV Memories issue honoring "Hopalong Cassidy" (1952), issued 11 August 2009.

Television talk-show host Johnny Carson told a story of how, in the mid-1960s, he met Boyd on a plane while flying cross-country. He asked Boyd, who hadn't made any public appearances in many years, if he would like to come on Carson's show, "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962). Boyd politely declined, and when Carson asked why, Boyd replied that he thought it would be too much of a jolt for kids--even though they were now adults--who had grown up seeing Hoppy as a tall, strong young cowboy hero to see him as the old man that Boyd now was.

In an early movie, Hoppy kissed Evelyn Brent on the forehead as she was dying. His fans saw this as unmanly, so all future romance was left to his partners, and there was a different leading lady in each picture.

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