William Lawrence Boyd (June 5, 1895 – September 12, 1972) was an American film actor who is known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy.

William Andrew Murray Boyd CBE FRSL (born 7 March 1952) is a British [2][3] novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), [4] to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters.

William Boyd. Actor: Two Arabian Knights. The son of a day laborer, William Boyd moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was seven. His parents died while he was in his early teens, forcing him to quit school and take such jobs as a grocery clerk, surveyor and oil field worker. He went to Hollywood in 1919, already gray-haired.

William Boyd. Actor: Two Arabian Knights. The son of a day laborer, William Boyd moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was seven. His parents died while he was in his early teens, forcing him to quit school and take such jobs as a grocery clerk, surveyor and oil field worker. He went to Hollywood in 1919, already gray-haired.

2023年12月12日 · William Boyd has written 17 novels and multiple collections of stories, spanning fictional biographies, foreign adventures and even a James Bond thriller. So where’s the best place to start with the twice Booker Prize-nominated author?

William Boyd is the author of seventeen novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Literary Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet; and Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year...

William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart is his disjointed autobiography, a massive tome chronicling "my personal rollercoaster"--or rather, "not so much a rollercoaster", but a yo-yo, "a jerking spinning toy in the hands of a maladroit child."

William Boyd (born June 5, 1898, Hendrysburg, Ohio, U.S.—died Sept. 12, 1972, Hollywood) was an American motion-picture and television actor who was best known for his portrayal of Hopalong Cassidy in a series of western films.

WILLIAM BOYD has received world-wide acclaim for his novels which have been translated into over thirty languages.

2009年8月19日 · Boyd starred in 66 full-featured Hopalong Cassidy films, 52 half-hour television programs, and 104 radio shows. Attesting to the popularity of the western theme, at least a dozen of Mulford’s novels are still in print.