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William Boyd

Born 5 June 1895 in Hendrysburg, Ohio, USA, as William Lawrence Boyd.
Died 12 September 1972 in Laguna Beach, California, USA, of heart failure and Parkinson’s disease.

Married Laura M. Maynes, 6 February 1917; divorced 1921.
Married actress Ruth Boydston Miller (screen name Ruth Miller), 24 September 1921; divorced, 19 November 1924; son (died in infancy).
Married actress Elinor Virginia Crowe (screen name Elinor Fair), 13 January 1926; divorced, 16 November 1929.
Married actress Dorothy Sabiston (Dorothy Sebastian), 19 December 1930; divorced, 30 May 1936.
Married actress Grace Elsa Bradley (screen name Grace Bradley), 5 June 1937;
until William’s death, 12 September 1972.

William Boyd began film work as an extra in 1920. Boyd found latter day fame in the 1940s and 1950s as western character Hopalong Cassidy in films and on television.

References: Website-IMDb.