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	William Boyd (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Boyd (June 5, 1895 - September 12, 1972) was an American actor.
		William Boyd died in 1972 in Laguna Beach, California and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
		For his contribution to the motion picture industry, William Boyd has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1734 Vine Street.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Boyd_(actor) (240 words)

	Hopalong Cassidy and William Boyd
		William Boyd found himself in a similar situation except, in his case, only one character was involved -- a fictitious, fl hatted, white maned cowboy that absorbed nearly the entire personality of the man who portrayed him on the screen.
		Boyd made 12 more Cassidy westerns, but they were inferior to the original product and United Artists pulled their financing of new pictures in 1948.
		Boyd released the older Paramount and United Artists features to television and they were the first films from major studios to hit the tube.
	ohoh.essortment.com /williamboydhop_rsgj.htm (1063 words)

	Meet William Boyd, aka Hopalong Cassidy, continued...
		William Boyd holds one of the Hollywood records for portraying a single character in all possible film medias.
		Boyd, showing great intelligence, had purchased the television rights to all the Hoppy motion pictures and licensed 52 of them to the NBC Television Network to be telecast as one hour episodes.
		Boyd was reluctant to leave loyal fans and was also concerned that his large production crew would be out of work.
	www.cod.edu /photo/calvert142/A2Sites/May-2/hopalonghtm/hopalong2.htm (697 words)

	Hopalong Cassidy / William Lawrence Boyd
		William L. Boyd was born in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio 5 June 1895.
		William L. Boyd held various jobs such as a tool dresser, surveyor and auto salesman until he moved to California when he was 20.
		Charles William Boyd born 4 July 1870 in Kirkwood Twp, Belmont County, Ohio and died in 1908 in Oklahoma married Lyda/Leida A. Wilkins born May, 1875.
	www.clanboyd.info /famous/hopalong (888 words)

	HERRINGSHAW'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY
		BOYD, SAMUEL STILLMAN, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1803 in Portland,
		BOYD, JAMES E., governor, was born Sept. 9, 1834, in Ireland.
		BOYD, ELLEN WRIGHT, educator, author, was born Sept. 8, 1833, in Winsted, Conn. For over a quarter of a century she has been principal of St.
	www.clanboyd.info /publications/herringshaws/index.htm (648 words)

	Armadillo - William Boyd
		Only consensus: Boyd was not being ambitious enough, not using his talents to the fullest.
		William Boyd's unusual novel is his first set in England.
		English author William Boyd was born in Ghana in 1952.
	complete-review.com /reviews/boydw/armadillo.htm (1198 words)

	Clan Boyd
		Robert Dictus Boyd is mentioned in a charter by Sir John Erskine of the lands of Halkhill 1262.
		A Robert Boyd attended the King's escheators from Dumbarton to Renfrew with Sir John Walleys and their men at arms, October 1304, and Sir Robert de Boyt was taken prisoner by the English in the Castle of Kildrummie shortly before 13 September 1306, a Duncan Boyd having been captured and hanged 4 August previously.
		Robert Boyd joined in a letter to the King of France, 16 November 1308, and he was one of the Scottish commanders at the battle of Bannockburn 4 June 1314.
	virts.rootsweb.com /~clanboyd/index.htm (823 words)

	William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stories and rumors generally mention: that Boyd looked too old due to his prematurely grey hair; and that Boyd was a womanizer and liked parties and alcohol.
		That 'other' William Boyd had been involved in a scandal in the early 1930s, and our William 'Hoppy' Boyd was incorrectly identified in the press and news as the guilty party.
		Boyd and Sherman wound up at United Artists, and they would distribute through UA until the series ended with FORTY THIEVES (UA, 1944), which was released in the Summer of '44.
	www.surfnetinc.com /chuck/hoppy.htm (1535 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : William Boyd : Biography
		Boyd continued his success in the sound era, but was hurt when a scandal hit another actor named "William Boyd" and the public confused the two.
		With the breakthrough of TV in the early 50s, Boyd began to reap huge profits from the character as the old shows found a new audience and by-products began to be produced and sold; he played Cassidy the rest of his life, even into genial, gray-haired old age.
		Boyd was married four times and divorced three, each time to an actress: Ruth Miller, Elinor Fair, Dorothy Sebastian, and Grace Bradley.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/72808/bio.jhtml (299 words)

	William Boyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Boyd is the name of many notable people:
		William Boyd (Colonel), United States Army Air Forces, base commander, Selfridge Field, Michigan, reprimanded in 1944 for ordering racially-segregated facilities for officers in violation of War Department regulations.
		William Boyd (Moderator), former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Boyd (121 words)

	Fascination - William Boyd
		William Boyd's collection of stories doesn't have quite the pull one would hope for, given the title.
		Boyd writes well -- confidently, easily -- but too many stroies don't really go anywhere, and some that do are too obvious.
		Boyd wants to belie this theory: many of these stories leave much that is uncertain.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/boydw/fnation.htm (1159 words)

	Bookreporter.com - FASCINATION: Stories by William Boyd
		William Boyd is the award-winning author of eight novels, three short story collections, and twelve screenplays.
		Boyd supplies no ending to the story and doesn't need to as that unrequited, unfinished feeling is precisely the point.
		In "Adult Video," Boyd presents the first half of what perceptive readers will realize is a two-part tale of a young writer (Edward) and his dance with infidelity while on the brink of proposing to his soon-to-be wife.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/1400043204.asp (908 words)

	William T. Boyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BOYD, William T. Company G, 4th Kentucky Regiment Infantry C.S.A. William T. Boyd, was born in 1843 in Trigg County, Kentucky.
		On September 14, 1861, William, along with the other Trigg County Men, were enlisted into the Confederate States Army to serve a term of 3 years or the war.
		William's body was laid to rest in Oakland Cemetery, in Atlanta, Foulton County Georgia along with 3000 other brave Confederate soldiers.
	www.kyseeker.com /trigg/vet/boyd-wmT.html (302 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Armadillo : A Novel (Vintage International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Boyd's comic writing is zesty and brilliantly on-target about contemporary Londoners, high and low, and Lorimer's adventures have enough of an alarming edge to keep a reader constantly, and delightedly, off balance.
		William Boyd makes the point that despite his name and connections Torquil is no different to other pig ignorant individuals who happen to be below him in the class order.
		William Boyd has a fine reporter's eye and can build characters that are believable and a wonder to behold.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375702164?v=glance (1960 words)

	Dr. William Augustus Boyd
		Boyd was born in Charleston on March 19, 1881, the son of the late Bernard and Joana [sic] W.
		Boyd had recently received a letter from Belgium recognizing him in the field of crippled children and informing him that he had been elected a Fellow of the International Society of Surgery.
		Boyd was a member of the American Orthopedic Association, Southern Surgical Association, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Southeastern Surgical Association, American Association of Railway Surgeons, American Medical Association, Southern Medical Association, and the Southern Seaboard Railway and Atlantic Coast Line Surgeons Association.
	sciway3.net /clark/richland/boyd.html (702 words)

	Alibris: William Boyd
		William Boyd marshals a heroic cluster of stereotypes in this novel about an art assessor named Henderson Dores who is hired by an eccentric millionaire to appraise a collection of Impressionist paintings deep in the heart of Georgia.
		William Boyd writes the wholly fictional (but eerily believable) life of an imaginary (and mediocre) American artist named Nat Tate, who rises in the art world simply through hype and opportunism.
		When Boyd's satire was first published, it was taken seriously by the art world as a biography of a real character.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/William_Boyd (924 words)

	Slice of Life: William Boyd Collection, Dr. John Adams
		William Boyd, according to the Sunnybrook Health Science Centre at the University of Toronto, was world renowned as an educator:
		It was his passion to revive the Boyd Collection for the benefit of future educators and students.
		The collection, known as the William Boyd Collection, was part of the estate of Dr. John Adams, Professor Emeritus of Pathology, University of Saskatchewan, who retired to Kelowna in 1975.
	www-medlib.med.utah.edu /sol/contributors/WilliamBoyd_Adams.html (427 words)

	Inventory of the William M. Boyd Collection
		William Madison Boyd an educator, chairman of the Political Science Department, fellow in the Carnegie Corporation, studied Social Conditions in England, Holland and Sweden, President of the Georgia NAACP, Analyst WERD radio news and international lecturer.
		William M. Boyd is a southern gentleman, married to a public school teacher, and the father of two sons.
		The article provided a brief profile of Dr. William Madison Boyd as an educator, chairman of the Political Science Department, a fellow in the Carnegie Corporation, studied Social Conditions in England, Holland and Sweden, President of the Georgia NAACP, Analyst WERD radio news and international lecturer.
	dlg.galileo.usg.edu /aafa/print/aafa_aarl97-013.html (658 words)

	William Boyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, on 7 March 1952.
		Boyd was selected in 1983 as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists' in a promotion run by Granta magazine and the Book Marketing Council.
		William Boyd became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors?p=auth17 (463 words)

	UNLV
		The William S. Boys School of Law was created by the Nevada State Legislature in June of 1997 and opened its doors to student in August of 1998.
		The William S. Boyd School of Law is presently the only law school in Nevada.
		Thanks for your consideration of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
	www.law.unlv.edu (285 words)

	Fascination by William Boyd
		In “Adult Video,” we see a man’s life in film format–rewinding to his years as a struggling student at Oxford, fast-forwarding to his dreams of success as a writer, and watching the present unfold as he proposes to his future wife for all the wrong reasons.
		Exploring the ways a life can be dominated by a need for love and the torments that arise when love is misplaced or denied, these stories confirm William Boyd’s reputation as a master of the art.
		William Boyd is the author of eight novels, three collections of short stories, and twelve screenplays that have been filmed.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?1400043204 (466 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Fascination" by William Boyd
		Such is the case with "Fascination," a new book of 14 short stories by British writer William Boyd (author of eight novels, including 2003's critically lauded "Any Human Heart").
		Boyd's character-based yarns take place in all sorts of cities around the world -- in various eras -- and are told by men, women, children, and men and women who act like children.
		They also reveal Boyd's almost single-minded preoccupation with infidelity, sexual selfishness and emotional disconnect between the genders.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2005/01/24/boyd/index_np.html (270 words)

	William Boyd (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He became famous as a Hollywood actor in the Western film genre, playing cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.
		William Boyd (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101955/) at the Internet Movie Database
		This article about an American actor or actress is a stub.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/William_Boyd_(actor) (225 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Brazzaville Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Boyd's Brazzaville Beach is a dramatic suspenseful novel that quickly pulls readers into the story of scientist Hope Clearwater's experiences in Africa where she's been studying chimps.
		She flees the camp and is captured by a guerrilla faction that is fighting to overthrow the government and now Hope has much bigger problems than whether or not she is going to be credited with the discovery that chimps are more human-like than was previously thought.
		The New Confessions by William Boyd, 1ST AMER.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380780496?v=glance (1836 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir William Boyd Dawkins (Archaeology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Archaeology, Biographies > Sir William Boyd Dawkins
		Sir William Boyd Dawkins 1837–1929, English geologist and archaeologist.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Sir William Boyd Dawkins
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Dawkins.html (209 words)

	Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Boyd, The Rev William (1748 — 1828)
		Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Boyd, The Rev William (1748 — 1828)
		Burns refers in 'The Ordination' to the public scene provoked by Boyd's induction at the Parish church of Fenwick in 1780.
		Boyd was finally ordained in the Council Chamber of Irvine on 25
	www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/BoydTheRevWilliam17481511828.111.shtml (337 words)

	Powell's Books - Fascination: Stories by William Boyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In "Adult Video," we see a man's life in film format — rewinding to his years as a struggling student at Oxford, fast-forwarding to his dreams of success as a writer, and watching the present unfold as he proposes to his future wife for all the wrong reasons.
		The insights arrived at in Boyd's stories are experienced rather than merely witnessed.
		"William Boyd is a British novelist who loves the short story.
	powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-1400043204-0 (998 words)

	Atlanta Public Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Boyd is located in the Rockdale community, in fast developing northwest Atlanta.
		Direct Instruction – Emphasis is placed on improving academic performance so that by the time students reach fifth grade, they are about two years beyond grade level.
		Boyd Elementary School is one of 16 Distinguished Schools in the district, based on No Child Left Behind criteria
	www.atlanta.k12.ga.us /our_schools/elementary/elementary/boyd/boyd.htm (201 words)

	Powell's Books - On the Yankee Station: Stories by William Boyd
		Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives.
		With droll humor and rare compassion, Boyd's enthralling stories remind us of his stature as one of contemporary fiction's finest storytellers.
		In the title story, an arrogant, sadistic American pilot in Vietnam underestimates the power of revenge when he relentlessly persecutes a member of his maintenance crew.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0375705112-0 (262 words)

	Bamboo - William Boyd - Penguin UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bamboo - William Boyd - Penguin UK home
		William Boyd's first collection of non-fiction is a substantial volume of writings from the last three decades that range widely over his particular interests and obsessions.
		Bamboo gathers together Boyd's writing on literature, art, the movie business, television, people he has met, places he has visited and autobiographical reflections on his African childhood, his years at boarding school and the profession of novelist.
	www.penguinbooks.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0241143055,00.html (807 words)

	William Boyd, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry - Great Hollywood Cowboys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Boyd, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry - Great Hollywood Cowboys
		A smiling William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd and Topper entertain the crowd.
		A notation on the back of the photo identifies this appearance as "Western Ways, Tucson, Az.", but no date is included (probably early 1950s when Boyd's Hoppy TV show was popular).
	www.surfnetinc.com /chuck/h-g-r.htm (80 words)

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