Personal Info
Birth date
1931-07-04 (93 Years)
Day of death
1977-06-02
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Glengormley, Northern Ireland, UK
Also known as
-Stephen Boyd
Biography
Stephen Boyd (born William Millar; July 4, 193 – June 2, 1977) was a Northern Irish/American stage and screen actor. As a teenager he joined the Ulster Group Theatre where he learned the tasks of the theatre. In 1956 he toured North America performing "A Streetcar Named Desire" in the lead role as Stanley Kowalski. Boyd who appeared in around 60 feature films, most notably in the role of Messala in the 1959 film "Ben-Hur".
Filmography
What's My Line?
6.9
Overview:
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
Overview:
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
6
Overview:
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Overview:
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".This Is Your Life
6.455
Overview:
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Ben-Hur
7.888
Overview:
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.General Electric Theater
6.25
Overview:
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.The Fall of the Roman Empire
6.488
Overview:
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.The Bible: In the Beginning...
7.3
Overview:
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.Hannie Caulder
6.223
Overview:
Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.Carter's Army
4.042
Overview:
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies' advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war.Genghis Khan
5.9
Overview:
This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.Fantastic Voyage
6.674
Overview:
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.The Bravados
6.5
Overview:
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.Shalako
5.7
Overview:
Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.The Poppy Is Also a Flower
5.8
Overview:
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.Island in the Sun
6.7
Overview:
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.The Man Who Never Was
7
Overview:
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.The Best of Everything
6.4
Overview:
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.The Man Called Noon
5.9
Overview:
Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered. As time goes by, Noon also recalls a fortune hidden somewhere. Niland, a scheming judge, and Peg Cullane, a greedy will do everything to prevent Noon and Rimes from achieving their end while Fan Davidge, a woman living in a ghost town, will support them.Imperial Venus
3.7
Overview:
The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother for political reasons, Pauline joined Napoleon in the Italian army, where she fell in love with the comté de Canouville. But the First Consul married her to his friend, General Leclerc, whom she followed on the expedition to Saint-Domingue. Unconcerned about fidelity, she began to love her husband just as he was about to die of yellow fever. Back in France, she was soon consoled by other gallants. Napoleon, now emperor, hastened to marry her off to Prince Borghese, but he was unable to make her love him. She soon returned to Paris to lead the life of a gallant woman, incognito, and again met Canouville, whom the emperor tried in vain to separate from her. But soon the Russian campaign begins, and her lover is killed. All that remains for Pauline, this time disconsolate, is to reconcile with her brother on the road to exile.The Night Heaven Fell
4.9
Overview:
Ursula finishes her studies and returns to her aunt Florentine and uncle, Ribera who is the count. She falls in love with Lambert, the killer of her uncle.Billy Rose's Jumbo
5.6
Overview:
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.A Hill in Korea
6.563
Overview:
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
7.167
Overview:
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.The Oscar
5.1
Overview:
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.Montana Trap
5
Overview:
Potato Fritz (Hardy Kruger) and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a gang of gold thieves. This movie is notable among German-made Westerns for its use of authentic period costumes and firearms.Acting
2001Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1994The Bible According to Hollywood as Self
1977Women in Hospital as Prof. Overhoff, Chefarzt
1977The Squeeze as Vic
1977Lady Dracula as Dracula
1977Hunter (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Montana Trap as Bill Ardisson
1975One Man Against the Organization as Inspector Stephen McCormick
1975The Lives of Jenny Dolan as Joe Rossiter
1975The Left Hand of the Law as Lanza
1975Carter's Army as Capt. Beau Carter
1975The Treasure of Jamaica Reef as Hugo Graham
1973Key West as Steve Cutler
1973The Man Called Noon as Rimes
1973The Big Game as Leyton van Dyk
1973Those Dirty Dogs! as Cpt. Chadwood Willer
1972The Hands of Cormac Joyce as Cormac Joyce
1972One Billion for a Blonde as León Urrutía, joyero
1971Kill! as Brad Killian
1971The Devil with Seven Faces as Dave Barton
1971Hannie Caulder as The Preacher (uncredited)
1971African Story as Arnold Tiller
1971Marta as Miguel
1971The Great Swindle as Arturo
1969Slaves as MacKay
1968Shalako as Bosky Fulton
1968Hawaii Five-O (1 Episode) as Daniel Costigan
1968Assignment K as Philip Scott
1967The Caper of the Golden Bulls as Peter Churchman
1966The Bible: In the Beginning... as Nimrod
1966Fantastic Voyage as Grant
1966The Poppy Is Also a Flower as Benson
1966The Oscar as Frank Fane
1965Genghis Khan as Yamuga
1964The Fall of the Roman Empire as Livius
1964The Third Secret as Alex Stedman
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962Imperial Venus as Jules de Canouville
1962Billy Rose's Jumbo as Sam Rawlins
1962The Inspector as Peter Jongman
1961The Big Gamble as Vic Brennan
1959Ben-Hur as Messala
1959The Best of Everything as Mike Rice
1959Woman Obsessed as Fred Carter
1958The Bravados as Bill Zachary
1958The Night Heaven Fell as Lambert
1957Seven Thunders as Dave
1957Island in the Sun as Euan Templeton
1957Abandon Ship as Will McKinley
1956The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (2 Episodes) as Self
1956A Hill in Korea as Pvt. Sims
1956The Man Who Never Was as Patrick O'Reilly
1955An Alligator Named Daisy as Albert O'Shannon
1954Lilacs in the Spring as Beaumont's Poolside Companion (uncredited)
1953The Limping Man as Airport Traveller (Uncredited)
1953Black 13 as Policeman (uncredited)
1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Bud Austin
1952This Is Your Life (2 Episodes) as Self
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Cormac Joyce
1950What's My Line? (1 Episode) as Self - Mystery Guest