
Birthday:
07-04-1931
Deathday:
06-02-1977 (45 years)
Birthplace:
Glengormley, Northern Ireland, UK
Biography
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".
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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Ben-Hur
Act like Messala
event1959 star_border 7.9
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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.
Fantastic Voyage
Act like Grant
event1966 star_border 6.7
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In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
Marta
Act like Miguel
event1971 star_border 5.5
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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 wife, who may have been murdered.
The Great Swindle
Act like Arturo
event1971 star_border 4.4
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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 more and more dangerous.
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Act like Nimrod
event1966 star_border 7.3
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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.
Genghis Khan
Act like Yamuga
event1965 star_border 5.9
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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.
Carter's Army
Act like Capt. Beau Carter
event1975 star_border 4.3
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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.
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Act like Sam Rawlins
event1962 star_border 5.6
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The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
Island in the Sun
Act like Euan Templeton
event1957 star_border 6.5
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A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.
The Man Who Never Was
Act like Patrick O'Reilly
event1956 star_border 7
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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 Treasure of Jamaica Reef
Act like Hugo Graham
event1975 star_border 2.8
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An adventure film about the search for a more than 200-year-old treasure on the ocean floor.
The Bravados
Act like Bill Zachary
event1958 star_border 6.5
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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
Act like Bosky Fulton
event1968 star_border 5.7
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Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
The Night Heaven Fell
Act like Lambert
event1958 star_border 4.9
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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.
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Act like Livius
event1964 star_border 6.5
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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 Oscar
Act like Frank Fane
event1966 star_border 5.1
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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.
The Best of Everything
Act like Mike Rice
event1959 star_border 6.4
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An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
The Devil with Seven Faces
Act like Dave Barton
event1971 star_border 4.7
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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 Barton that Mary's life is being threatened in London while Julie herself is being stalked by a mysterious stranger in Amsterdam.
The Squeeze
Act like Vic
event1977 star_border 5.8
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An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved in a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob.
The Third Secret
Act like Alex Stedman
event1964 star_border 6.1
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A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
Abandon Ship
Act like Will McKinley
event1957 star_border 7.4
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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 twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
Those Dirty Dogs!
Act like Cpt. Chadwood Willer
event1973 star_border 5.7
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Captain Chadwell, Lieutenant Junger and Sergeant Smith are sent by Washington to help their colleagues of Fort Apache to recover stolen arms. A bounty hunter accompanies them.
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2001 star_border 7.2
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Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Act like Benson
event1966 star_border 5.8
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A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
The Man Called Noon
Act like Rimes
event1973 star_border 5.9
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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.
The Limping Man
Act like Airport Traveller (Uncredited)
event1953 star_border 5.2
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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 limping sniper.
Seven Thunders
Act like Dave
event1957 star_border 5.4
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Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
One Man Against the Organization
Act like Inspector Stephen McCormick
event1975 star_border 4.3
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An airport employee switches a pack of drugs for baking soda and absconds to Barcelona, meanwhile the drug-runners are on his trail.
The Inspector
Act like Peter Jongman
event1962 star_border 6.7
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At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
Assignment K
Act like Philip Scott
event1968 star_border 6
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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 his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
Woman Obsessed
Act like Fred Carter
event1959 star_border 6.6
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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 drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.
Kill!
Act like Brad Killian
event1971 star_border 6.4
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Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
An Alligator Named Daisy
Act like Albert O'Shannon
event1955 star_border 6.2
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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 while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
Lady Dracula
Act like Dracula
event1977 star_border 5.4
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A beautiful blonde bitten by Count Dracula 100 years previously is unearthed in Vienna, and soon she goes on a killing spree.
Montana Trap
Act like Bill Ardisson
event1976 star_border 5
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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.
The Big Game
Act like Leyton van Dyk
event1973 star_border 3.5
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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 forcing them to fight.
Imperial Venus
Act like Jules de Canouville
event1962 star_border 3.7
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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 Caper of the Golden Bulls
Act like Peter Churchman
event1967 star_border 5.6
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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 companion Angela appears and blackmails him to help her robbing the Spanish National Bank of Pamplona. He gives in and develops a brilliant plan... Will this be then end of his comfortable life?
The Big Gamble
Act like Vic Brennan
event1961 star_border 5.7
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Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.
African Story
Act like Arnold Tiller
event1971 star_border 4.7
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African set action thriller
Women in Hospital
Act like Prof. Overhoff, Chefarzt
event1977
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Schuman and Oberhoff are successful hospital doctors who treat pregnant women. However, their personal lives are a mess. Schuman has to deal with his drug-addicted wife Claudia, while Oberhoff deals with his teenage daughter's pregnancy.
Black 13
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1953
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The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident.
Hannie Caulder
Act like The Preacher (uncredited)
event1971 star_border 6.2
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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.
A Hill in Korea
Act like Pvt. Sims
event1956 star_border 6.6
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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.
Slaves
Act like MacKay
event1969 star_border 5.7
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A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
The Hands of Cormac Joyce
Act like Cormac Joyce
event1972 star_border 5
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A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village.
The Left Hand of the Law
Act like Lanza
event1975 star_border 6
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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 path to find the kidnappers leads him to the upper echelons of the government. Now, the powers-that-be don't want to be found out and decide it's time to kill one more cop...
Key West
Act like Steve Cutler
event1973 star_border 6
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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 settle.
The Bible According to Hollywood
Act like Self
event1994 star_border 6
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Filmmaker Phillip Dye's documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced throughout the years, including The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Ben Hur, The Bible ... In the Beginning and many more titles. With iconic clips, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the likes of Charlton Heston, Peter Ustinov and Virginia Mayo, Dye's film is a celebration of the golden age of epic moviemaking.
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Act like Joe Rossiter
event1975
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A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Lilacs in the Spring
Act like Beaumont's Poolside Companion (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 5.5
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A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
Hawaii Five-O
Act like Daniel Costigan (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 7.1
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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".
General Electric Theater
Act like Bud Austin (1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 6
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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.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Act like Cormac Joyce (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 8.7
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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.
This Is Your Life
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event1952 star_border 6.3
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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.
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 5.5
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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
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event1956 star_border 5.3
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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.
Hunter
(1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 8
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Global espionage with an American agent and his sexy partner.
What's My Line?
Act like Self - Mystery Guest (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 6.8
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Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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