Stephen Boyd, born William Millar, 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”.
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Stephen Boyd Biography / Wiki
Name | Stephen Boyd |
Also Know | |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Glengormley, Northern Ireland, UK |
Date of Birth | 1931-07-04 |
Age(as in 2022) | 45 |
Deathday | 1977-06-02 |
Stephen Boyd Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Fantastic Voyage | Grant | 1966-08-24 | In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream…. |
Carter’s Army | Capt. Beau Carter | 1970-01-27 | 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… |
The Treasure of Jamaica Reef | Hugo Graham | 1975-03-01 | An adventure film about the search for a more than 200-year-old treasure on the ocean floor…. |
The Oscar | Frank Fane | 1966-03-04 | 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… |
The Third Secret | Alex Stedman | 1964-02-02 | A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter … |
Seven Thunders | Dave | 1957-09-04 | Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France…. |
The Inspector | Peter Jongman | 1962-05-24 | At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine…. |
Assignment K | Philip Scott | 1968-02-16 | Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott’s cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap… |
Kill! | Brad Killian | 1971-12-10 | Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers…. |
The Big Game | Leyton van Dyk | 1973-04-02 | Two soldiers of fortune are hired by an inventor to protect him and his invention, a radar-like machine that is capable of controlling armies and forc… |
The Caper of the Golden Bulls | Peter Churchman | 1967-05-24 | Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former com… |
The Big Gamble | Vic Brennan | 1961-07-25 | Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation i… |
African Story | Arnold Tiller | 1971-10-21 | African set action thriller… |
The Hands of Cormac Joyce | Cormac Joyce | 1972-09-16 | A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village…. |
Key West | Steve Cutler | 1973-12-10 | A former CIA agent and his friend, operating a charter boat service in Florida, find themselves the target of an eccentric millionaire with a score to… |
The Great Swindle | Arturo | 1971-03-06 | A seductive woman gets involved in relationships with several people. All of the characters play games of deceit with one and other and things get mor… |
Marta | Miguel | 1971-04-10 | A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wi… |
Billy Rose’s Jumbo | Sam Rawlins | 1962-12-06 | The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves…. |
The Fall of the Roman Empire | Livius | 1964-03-24 | In the year 180 AD Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has… |
The Best of Everything | Mike Rice | 1959-10-09 | An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups…. |
Those Dirty Dogs! | Cpt. Chadwood Willer | 1973-03-01 | Captain Chadwell, Lieutenant Junger and Sergeant Smith are sent by Washington to help their colleagues of Fort Apache to recover stolen arms. A bounty… |
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood | Himself (archive footage) | 2001-01-01 | Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox’s 1963 film “Cleopatra,” then the most expensive film of all time…. |
The Man Called Noon | Rimes | 1973-08-29 | 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 gradual… |
Montana Trap | Bill Ardisson | 1976-05-05 | Potato Fritz (Hardy Kruger) and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged b… |
Imperial Venus | Jules de Canouville | 1962-12-22 | Biopic about Napoleon’s sister Paulette…. |
Women in Hospital | Prof. Overhoff, Chefarzt | 1977-04-07 | Schuman and Oberhoff are successful hospital doctors who treat pregnant women. However, their personal lives are a mess. Schuman has to deal with his … |
Woman Obsessed | Fred Carter | 1959-05-27 | After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drift… |
The Lives of Jenny Dolan | Joe Rossiter | 1975-10-27 | A newspaper reporter’s life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination…. |
Ben-Hur | Messala | 1959-11-18 | 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 tr… |
Genghis Khan | Yamuga | 1965-04-15 | 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 tr… |
The Night Heaven Fell | Lambert | 1958-04-05 | 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 u… |
The Devil with Seven Faces | Dave Barton | 1971-12-09 | Carroll Baker plays a dual role as translator Julie Harrison and her twin sister Mary. The serpentine plot begins as Julie tells her lawyer Dave Barto… |
Poppies Are Also Flowers | Benson | 1966-05-20 | In this anti-drug film narrated by Grace Kelly, a group of narcotics agents working for the United Nations inject a radioactive compound into a seized… |
Slaves | MacKay | 1969-07-02 | A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt…. |
Shalako | Bosky Fulton | 1968-11-06 | Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits…. |
The Squeeze | Vic | 1977-07-12 | An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved into a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob…. |
Abandon Ship | Will McKinley | 1957-03-12 | After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship’s officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over … |
The Man Who Never Was | Patrick O’Reilly | 1956-04-03 | 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 Britis… |
One Billion for a Blonde | León UrrutÃa, joyero | 1972-01-01 | … |
Lady Dracula | Dracula | 1977-03-15 | A beautiful blonde bitten by Count Dracula 100 years previously is unearthed in Vienna, and soon she goes on a killing spree…. |
The Bravados | Bill Zachary | 1958-06-25 | Jim is a rancher and a widower, and he rides into Rio Arriba, where four men are awaiting execution. He wants to see the hanging, but the town has iss… |
One Man Against the Organization | Inspector Stephen McCormick | 1975-11-12 | An airport employee switches a pack of drugs for baking soda and absconds to Barcelona, meanwhile the drug-runners are on his trail…. |
The Left Hand of the Law | Lanza | 1975-09-03 | After a couple of ‘special squad’ cops are gunned down while chasing some kidnappers, the head of the squad takes it really personally! His violent pa… |
Hannie Caulder | The Preacher (uncredited) | 1971-11-08 | 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 … |
A Hill in Korea | Pvt. Sims | 1956-09-18 | 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… |
Island in the Sun | Euan Templeton | 1957-06-12 | On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner’s son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the con… |
An Alligator Named Daisy | Albert O’Shannon | 1955-12-13 | Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and wh… |
The Bible According to Hollywood | Himself | 1994-01-01 | Filmmaker Phillip Dye’s documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced throughout the years, including The Ten Commandments… |
The Bible: In the Beginning… | Nimrod | 1966-09-28 | Extravagant production of the first part of the book of Genesis. Covers Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood and Abraham and Isaac…. |
Lilacs in the Spring | Beaumont’s Poolside Companion (uncredited) | 1954-12-21 | A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide…. |
The Limping Man | Airport Traveller (Uncredited) | 1953-12-11 | An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a … |
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