Hopalong Cassidy
1952
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William Lawrence Boyd (June 5, 1895 – September 12, 1972) was an American film actor who is known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy.
Actor: The Volga Boatman. 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.
Dec 12, 2023 · 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 Andrew Murray Boyd CBE FRSL (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.
William Boyd. Actor: The Volga Boatman. 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.
Jun 1, 2024 · 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.
Aug 13, 2023 · William Boyd’s new book follows one man from childhood to death, and the globe-spanning adventures in between.
William Boyd. 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 ...
Dec 5, 2023 · Longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002, William Boyd’s entertaining story of a life apparently lived to the full is a journey deep into a very human heart.
William Boyd is perhaps best described as a wry historian of 20th-century life, and an ironic commentator on the ways that life has been represented, not only in literature, but in the companion genres of visual art, film and photography.
