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Guy Martin à Beckett Boyd (12 June 1923 - 26 April 1988) was an Australian sculptor.
Born in Murrumbeena, Victoria, he was a member of the famous Boyd artistic dynasty, and brother of painters Arthur Boyd and David Boyd. Guy Boyd was a potter and figurative sculptor noted for his ability to capture the fluidity and sensuality of the female form. He was also active in environmental and other causes, including the damming of Tasmania's Franklin River and the Lindy Chamberlain affair.
Initially he was a potter and established the Martin Boyd Pottery and later extablished the Guy Boyd Pottery but turned to a fulltime career in sculpture in 1965.
His commissions include sculptures in both Melbourne and Sydney's international airports, Caulfield town hall, the Commonwealth Bank and has pieces in the National Gallery, Melbourne. He has had exhibitions of his work in Australia, England, Canada and the US.
He also won the Churchill Fellowship to study art overseas in 1968 and was appointed the Art Advisor to Deakin University in 1988.
'Guy Boyd' written by Anne Von Bertouch and Patrick Hutchins was published by Lansdowne Press in 1976.
He was Australian Co-ordinator of 'Save Lindy Chamberlain' and wrote the book 'Justice in Jeopardy' in her defence.
President of the Brighton Foreshore Protection Committee which he founded with a plaque commemorating his achievements in preserving the Brighton Foreshore erected on the beach at Brighton, Victoria, Melbourne.
President of the Port Phillip Protection Society and was arrested campaigning against the damming of the Franklin River in Tasmania.
He migrated to Canada with his wife and four younger children settling in Toronto in 1975 but returned to live in Australia five years later.
Died 26 April, 1988
Guy Boyd (born April 15, 1943) is an American character actor. He has starred in over fifty films from the late 1970s to the present. This reliable supporting player is probably best known for his role as Detective Jim McLean in Brian De Palma's thriller Body Double (1984). The same year, Boyd was honored at the Venice Film Festival with the Golden Lion Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Robert Altman's dramatic war play Streamers (1983). In recent years Boyd was seen playing Captain Strickland on the science fiction television show Black Scorpion.
Guy Boyd has been a reliable and renowned supporting actor since his film debut in Between the Lines (1978). His acting career began studing in Shakespearian dramas and on and off-Broadway productions before starting a lengthy career in films usually playing tough authority figures. In twenty years, Boyd has starred in nearly fifty motion pictures and is probably best known for his funny and sometimes sick performance as Detective McLean in Brian De Palma's Body Double (1984). Boyd won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion Award for Best Actor for his role in Robert Altman's Streamers (1983). Most recently, he was seen co-starring on the science fiction television series "Black Scorpion".




