William Boyd
Born: June 5, 1895,
Hendrysburg, Ohio
Died: September 12, 1972, (age 77), Laguna
Beach, California
 William
Lawrence Boyd was born in Hendrysburg, Ohio, located
26 miles east of Cambridge, Ohio, he was raised in
Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1918 he went to Hollywood where he
became famous as a leading man in silent film romances
with a yearly salary of $100,000.
What do you know about William
Boyd? Try this quick quiz.
1. By the end of the 1920s, Boyd's
career had begun to deteriorate, and he was without a
contract and going broke. His career was hurt when
Boyd's picture was mistakenly run in a newspaper story
about the arrest of another actor on gambling and liquor
charges. Why was the mistake made?
2. In 1935, he was offered the
lead role in the movie Hopalong Cassidy. He
changed the original pulp-fiction character from a
whisky guzzling wrangler to a cowboy hero who did not
smoke, drink, or swear and he always let the bad guy
start the fight. Who wrote the Hopalong Cassidy books?
3. Boyd purchased the rights to
the character of Hopalong, as well as the rights to the
66 Hopalong Cassidy movies. True or False?
4. How old was Boyd when he began
the Hopalong series?
5. What was the name of Hopalong
Cassidy's white horse?
6. Who played Rance Brett in the
William Boyd film, "The Painted Desert (1931)?
7. Who played the Henchman in the
1943 Hoppy film, "Hoppy Serves a Writ"?
8. At his time of death, what was
the primary cause of death?
9. Where is William Boyd buried?
Answers
- 1. Actor with a similar name
(William Stage Boyd).
- 2. Clarence E. Mulford
- 3. True
- 4. 40 years old
- 5. Topper
- 6. Clark Gable
- 7. Robert Mitchum
- 8. Parkinson's disease and
heart failure
- 9. Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Cemetery, Glendale, California
Plot: Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Sacred Promise
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