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Actor Born: June 5, 1895 in Cambridge, OH Death: September 12, 1972 in Palm Desert, CA Biography:An "Okie" whose parents died when he was a child, "William Boyd" became a manual laborer before breaking into the movies in 1919 as an extra in "Cecil B. De Mille"'s "Why Change Your Wife?" He soon became one of De Mille's favorite actors and was cast as an unassuming leading man in comedies and swashbuckling adventure films. Boyd continued his success in the sound era, but was hurt when a scandal hit another actor named "William Boyd" and the public confused the two. His career took off in 1935 when he began to appear in "Hopalong Cassidy" films (based on the Clarence E. Mulford stories of the Old West), beginning with "Hop-A-Long Cassidy" and eventually amounting to 66 episodes, the final twelve of which Boyd produced. Cassidy, dressed in black and mounted on his famous horse Topper, was a clean-living good guy who didn't smoke, drink, or swear, and hardly ever kissed the heroine; the character... Full Biography
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