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Revision as of 21:03, 31 March 2012
Stephen Boyd was a British actor who was born in Northern Ireland on 4 July 1931. He began acting in British films, notably as an edgy Irish spy in the World War II film The Man Who Never Was (1956) or Private Sims in A Hill in Korea (1956). It was his role in a 1957 French film The Night Heaven Fell opposite Brigitte Bardot which garnered him critical and public attention. He went to Hollywood and appeared as leads in a variety of films, including The Bravados (1958) and The Best of Everything (1959). For his performance in role Messala in Ben-Hur (1959) he received a Golden Globe. Boyd was originally chosen to play Mark Antony opposite Elizabeth Taylor in 20th Century-Fox's epic production of Cleopatra (1963), but eventually withdrew from the problem-plagued production when he committed to star in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), in which he co-starred with Sophia Loren. He died of a heart attack on a Los Angeles golf course 2 June 1977.
Stephen Boyd can be seen using the following guns in the following films:
Film
Gun | Character | Film | Note | Date |
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Single Action Army | Bosky Fulton | Shalako | . | 1968 |
Winchester Model 1873 | Bosky Fulton | Shalako | . | 1968 |
Colt Single Action Army | Mysterious Stranger | Hannie Caulder | . | 1971 |