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Years active 1955-1971
Top Roles Will McKinley, Livius, Bosky Fulton, Mike Rice, Fred Carter
Top GenresDrama, Romance, Action, Adventure, Crime, Comedy
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Stephen Boyd Overview:

Actor, Stephen Boyd, was born William Millar on Jul 4, 1931 in Glengormley, UK. Boyd died at the age of 45 on Jun 2, 1977 in Northridge, CA and was laid to rest in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, Los Angeles County, CA.

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Stephen Boyd Quotes:

Grant: [as the team enters a door marked "Sterilization Room"] How much can a man give to his country?

Messala: [greedily] Drusus, as a boy I dreamed of commanding this garrison. And now the wheel has turned. I am in command.

Messala: By condemning without hesitation an old friend, I shall be feared.

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Stephen Boyd Facts
In 1976, in what would be his final interview, Boyd expressed regret at concentrating so heavily on movies and said he wished he had acted more on stage and on television.
In 1995, Charlton Heston denied a claim by screenwriter Gore Vidal that there was a gay subtext to the film Ben-Hur (1959). Vidal claims he wrote the script with such an implication and mentioned the subtext to director William Wyler. Boyd, who played Ben-Hur's friend (and later nemesis) Messala, supposedly was in on this subtext and played his scenes as if he had been spurned by his gay lover. Heston was not informed of this as they thought he would not like it. Heston went on to state that after writing one scene, Vidal was dismissed from the project. Vidal responded by producing extracts from Heston's 1978 journal "The Actor's Life", in which he admitted Vidal had written most of the finished screenplay.
Died of a heart attack while playing golf, shortly after completing a guest-starring role on "Hawaii Five-O" (1968).
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