Stephen Boyd
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OverviewAI-generated
Stephen Boyd was a person whose professional career began in 1955. He lived from July 4, 1931, to June 2, 1977. His recorded output includes five works according to Crossref data.
Open Library lists thirty-three works associated with the author name Stephen Boyd. Notable titles include *Colson's Way*, *What Would a Different Economy and Work Look Like?*, *Dynamic Network Energy Management via Proximal Message Passing*, *Simple Method for Predicting Covariance Matrices of Financial Returns*, and *Far East New Colliegate English Chinese Dictionary*.
The subject is referenced by 286 other encyclopedia articles. MusicBrainz classifies the artist type as Person, while Last.fm records 254 listeners and a playcount of 1324.
Synthesized by Vinony from 14 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- William Millar , ( 1931-07-04 ) 4 July 1931, Whitehouse, County Antrim , Northern Ireland
- Died
- 2 June 1977 (1977-06-02) (aged 45), Northridge, Los Angeles , California, US
- Resting place
- Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1955–1977
- Spouses
- Mariella di Sarzana ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1959 ) Elizabeth Mills ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1974 )
- Partner
- Marisa Mell (1970–1972)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stephen
- Family name
- Boyd
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Glengormley
- Place of death
- Northridge
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- Western
- Image
- Stephen Boyd.jpg
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- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1931-07-04
- date of death
- 1977-06-02
- Commons category
- Stephen Boyd
- place of burial
- Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- Stephen Boyd
- start of work period
- 1955-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- William Millar
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Encyclopedic overview
William Millar (4 July 1931 – 2 June 1977), better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was an actor from Northern Ireland. He emerged as a leading man during the late 1950s with his role as the villainous Messala in Ben-Hur (1959), a role that earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. He received his second Golden Globe nomination for the musical Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962).
Boyd also appeared, sometimes as a hero and sometimes as a malefactor, in the major big-screen productions The Man Who Never Was (1956), The Night Heaven Fell (1958), The Bravados (1958), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Genghis Khan (1965), Fantastic Voyage (1966), The Bible: In the Beginning... (also 1966), and Shalako (1968).
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