William Boyd (actor)
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William Lawrence Boyd was an American actor and film producer, known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy in dozens of Western films released during the 1930s and '40s.
Boyd c. 1925
Boyd and Dorothy Sebastian in the film His First Command (1929)
Boyd and "Miss Josephine" in 1931
Boyd in Chicago promoting a TV show (1950)
Hopalong Cassidy
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Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as
Hopalong Takes Command, illustration by Frank Schoonover for the 1905 story "The Fight at Buckskin"
Reissue poster for the 1935 Hopalong Cassidy film The Eagle's Brood
Actor William Boyd and his wife Grace, in Australia promoting Hopalong Cassidy, 1954