William Boyd (June 5, 1895 - September 12, 1972) was an American actor.
Born William Lawrence Boyd in [Hendrysburg, Ohio, located 26 miles east of [Cambridge, Ohio]], he was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He became famous as a Hollywood leading man in silent film romances with a yearly salary of $100,000, but by the end of the 1920s his career had begun to deteriorate, Boyd was without a contract and going broke. Boyd's picture was mistakenly run in a newspaper story about the arrest of another actor with a similar name, William Stage Boyd, on gambling and liquor charges, which further hurt his career.
In 1935, he was offered the lead role in the movie Hopalong Cassidy. He changed the original pulp-fiction character, written by Clarence E. Mulford, from a whisky guzzling wrangler to a cowboy hero who didn't smoke, drink, or swear and he always let the bad guy start the fight. Boyd would be indelibly associated with the Hopalong Cassidy character, and he gained lasting fame in the Western film genre because of it. Boyd purchased the rights to the character of Hopalong, as well as the rights to the 66 Hopalong Cassidy movies. In the early 1950s, he released the movies to television, where they became extremely popular. Along with other cowboy figures, such as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, Boyd licensed merchandise, including such products as Hopalong Cassidy watches, cups and dishes, comic books and cowboy outfits. Boyd used his fame and his fortune to meet with children around the world, and underscore for them the fine qualities of the Hopalong Cassidy figure he portrayed. As a private individual and an actor, he was a hero to a generation of American children. The Hopalong Cassidy films remain available for broadcast, and are on DVD in restored form.
Boyd appeared as Hopalong Cassidy on the cover of numerous national magazines, such as the August 29, 1950 issue of Look blank">http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/Hoppy.htm, and the November 27, 1950 issue of _Time.
Oddly, both Clark Gable and Robert Mitchum experienced their first big breaks in movies playing bearded villains in westerns starring Boyd.
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.
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. Since 1991, the Friends of Hoppy fan club has held the Hopalong Cassidy Festival in Boyd's hometown of Cambridge, Ohio.
William Boyd CC (June 21, 1885 - March 10, 1979) was a Scottish-Canadian pathologist, academic, and author known for his medical textbooks.
Born in Portsoy, Scotland, he received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1908. During World War I, he was with the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Flanders. In 1916 he wrote the book, With a Field Ambulance at Ypres.
After the war, he became a Professor of Pathology in the Manitoba Medical College at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Over the next 22 years, he wrote medical pathology textbooks that were very well received. In 1937, he moved to the University of Toronto and in 1951 was at the University of British Columbia.
In 1968, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour, "for his services as a pathologist and as a founding member of the National Cancer Institute".
William James Boyd (born April 27, 1979), better known as Will Boyd, is the former bass guitarist of rock band Evanescence.
Boyd became a full-time member of Evanescence in June 2003, but had co-written two of their unreleased songs, "October" and "So Close," prior to that. He spent stints with local Little Rock punk bands such as The Visitors and Lucky Father Brown and is currently in the bands Two Spines and American Princes. He left Evanescence in June 2006 due to not wanting to do another big tour, and was replaced by Tim McCord.
