Cast
William Boyd
Acting
Cast
William Boyd
Known for
Acting
Born
1895-06-04
From
Hendrysburg, Ohio, USA
Died
1972-09-12
Also known as Bill Boyd, Hopalong Cassidy, William Lawrence Boyd
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Lawrence Boyd (June 5, 1895 β September 12, 1972) was an American film actor who is best known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy. Boyd was born in Hendrysburg, Ohio, and reared in Cambridge, Ohio and Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was the son of a day laborer, Charles William Boyd, and his wife, the former Lida Wilkens (aka Lyda). Following his father's death, he moved to California and worked as an orange picker, surveyor, tool dresser and auto salesman. In Hollywood, he found work as an extra in Why Change Your Wife? and other films. During World War I, he enlisted in the army but was exempt from military service because of a "weak heart". More prominent film roles followed, including his breakout role as Jack Moreland in Cecil B. DeMille's The Road to Yesterday (1925) which starred also Joseph Schildkraut, Jetta Goudal, and Vera Reynolds. Boyd's performance in the film was praised by critics, while movie-goers were equally impressed by his easy charm, charisma, and intense good-looks. Due to Boyd's growing popularity, DeMille soon cast him as the leading man in the highly acclaimed silent drama film, The Volga Boatman. Boyd's role as Feodor blew critics away, and with Boyd now firmly established as a matinee idol and romantic leading man, he began earning an annual salary of $100,000. He acted in DeMille's extravaganza The King of Kings (in which he played Simon of Cyrene, helping Jesus carry the cross) and DeMille's Skyscraper (1928). He then appeared in D.W. Griffith's Lady of the Pavements (1929). Radio Pictures ended Boyd's contract in 1931 when his picture was mistakenly run in a newspaper story about the arrest of another actor, William "Stage" Boyd, on gambling and liquor charges. Although the newspaper apologized, explaining the mistake in the following day's newspaper, Boyd said, "The damage was already done." William "Stage" Boyd died in 1935, the same year William L. Boyd became Hopalong Cassidy, the role that led to his enduring fame. But at the time in 1931, Boyd was virtually broke and without a job, and for a few years he was credited in films as "Bill Boyd" to prevent being mistaken for the other William Boyd.
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6.7
MOVIE1968
The Movie Orgy
as Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
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6.7
MOVIE1928
The Cop
as Pete Smith
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6.4
MOVIE1952
The Greatest Show on Earth
as Hopalong Cassidy (uncredited)
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8.0
MOVIE1936
Federal Agent
as Bob Woods
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8.0
MOVIE1928
Power
as Husky
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7.5
MOVIE1976
It's Showtime
as Self (archive footage)
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8.0
MOVIE1921
The Jucklins
as Dan Stuart
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6.4
MOVIE1927
The King of Kings
as Simon Of Cyrene
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9.0
MOVIE1939
Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
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6.5
MOVIE1935
Hop-a-long Cassidy
as Hopalong Cassidy
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10.0
MOVIE1923
Michael O'Halloran
as Douglas Bruce
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7.0
MOVIE1925
The Midshipman
as Spud
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5.5
MOVIE1938
Heart of Arizona
as Hopalong Cassidy
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10.0
MOVIE2000
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
as (archive footage)
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6.6
MOVIE1921
Forbidden Fruit
as Billiards Player
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5.3
MOVIE1936
Heart of the West
as Hopalong Cassidy
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9.0
MOVIE1919
Was He Guilty?
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6.0
MOVIE1929
The Flying Fool
as Bill Taylor
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5.3
MOVIE1930
Officer O'Brien
as Bill O'Brien
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10.0
MOVIE1934
Cheaters
as Steve Morris
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6.1
MOVIE1931
The Big Gamble
as Alan Beckwith
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6.5
MOVIE1928
The Night Flyer
as Jimmy Bradley
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7.2
MOVIE1927
Dress Parade
as Vic Donovan
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6.3
MOVIE1933
Emergency Call
as Joe Bradley
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7.0
MOVIE1953
Little Smokey
as Hopalong Cassidy
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9.0
MOVIE1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
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5.9
MOVIE1921
The Affairs of Anatol
as Guest
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8.0
MOVIE1926
Jim the Conqueror
as Jim Burgess
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10.0
MOVIE1921
Exit the Vamp
as Robert Pitts
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7.0
MOVIE1921
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
as Robert V. Courtney
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5.3
MOVIE1943
Riders of the Deadline
as Ranger William "Hopalong" Cassidy
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6.7
MOVIE1922
Moran of the Lady Letty
as Ramon's Friend at Homecoming
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5.0
MOVIE1931
Suicide Fleet
as Baltimore
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6.0
MOVIE1932
Men Of America
as Jim Parker
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5.2
MOVIE1931
The Painted Desert
as Bill Holbrook
MOVIE1999
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
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5.2
MOVIE1929
High Voltage
as Bill
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6.0
MOVIE1941
Outlaws of the Desert
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.4
MOVIE1918
Old Wives for New
as (uncredited)
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4.9
MOVIE1943
Bar 20
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.8
MOVIE1936
Call of the Prairie
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.6
MOVIE1940
Three Men from Texas
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.3
MOVIE1941
Doomed Caravan
as Hopalong Cassidy
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10.0
MOVIE1920
The City of Masks
as Carpenter
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5.7
MOVIE1941
Stick to Your Guns
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.9
MOVIE1943
Colt Comrades
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.0
MOVIE1943
Hoppy Serves a Writ
as Hopalong Cassidy
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9.0
MOVIE1923
Hollywood
as William Boyd
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5.9
MOVIE1922
Saturday Night
as Party Guest
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6.7
MOVIE1935
Bar 20 Rides Again
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.5
MOVIE1922
Manslaughter
as (uncredited)
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7.5
MOVIE1937
Borderland
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.0
MOVIE1936
Three on the Trail
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.3
MOVIE1939
Sunset Trail
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.0
MOVIE1939
Renegade Trail
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.0
MOVIE1939
Law of the Pampas
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.8
MOVIE1927
Two Arabian Knights
as Daingerfield Phelps
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6.3
MOVIE1942
Lost Canyon
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.0
MOVIE1938
Partners of the Plains
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.0
MOVIE1941
Twilight on the Trail
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.8
MOVIE1936
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.5
MOVIE1941
Wide Open Town
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.4
MOVIE1933
Lucky Devils
as Skipper Clark
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6.1
MOVIE1943
Leather Burners
as Hopalong Cassidy
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7.0
MOVIE1947
The Marauders
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.2
MOVIE1943
Border Patrol
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.5
MOVIE1939
Range War
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.5
MOVIE1946
Fool's Gold
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.5
MOVIE1926
The Volga Boatman
as Feodor
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6.3
MOVIE1937
Hopalong Rides Again
as Hopalong Cassidy
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9.0
MOVIE1931
Beyond Victory
as Bill Thatcher
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5.8
MOVIE1938
The Frontiersmen
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.0
MOVIE1944
Forty Thieves
as Hopalong Cassidy
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8.0
MOVIE1922
On the High Seas
as Dick Deveraux
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6.0
MOVIE1947
Hoppy's Holiday
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.7
MOVIE1937
North of the Rio Grande
as Hopalong Cassidy
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9.0
MOVIE1926
The Last Frontier
as Tom Kirby
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6.3
MOVIE1940
Santa Fe Marshal
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.5
MOVIE1932
Carnival Boat
as Buck Gannon
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6.0
MOVIE1948
Sinister Journey
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.3
MOVIE1937
Texas Trail
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.0
MOVIE1938
Cassidy of Bar 20
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.8
MOVIE1935
The Eagle's Brood
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.7
MOVIE1942
Undercover Man
as Hopalong Cassidy
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7.5
MOVIE1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self (archive footage)
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6.5
MOVIE1938
Pride of the West
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.3
MOVIE1936
Trail Dust
as Hopalong Cassidy
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7.7
MOVIE1922
The Young Rajah
as Stephen Van Kovert
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5.4
MOVIE1938
Bar 20 Justice
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.0
MOVIE1937
Hills of Old Wyoming
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.3
MOVIE1944
Mystery Man
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.8
MOVIE1944
Lumberjack
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.2
MOVIE1929
Lady of the Pavements
as Karl Von Arnim
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6.0
MOVIE1948
Silent Conflict
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.5
MOVIE1948
Strange Gamble
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.8
MOVIE1925
The Road to Yesterday
as Jack Moreland
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4.5
MOVIE1941
Riders of the Timberline
as Hopalong Cassidy
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8.5
MOVIE1929
His First Command
as Terry Culver
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8.0
MOVIE1925
Forty Winks
as Lt. Gerald Hugh Butterworth
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6.0
MOVIE1941
Pirates on Horseback
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.5
MOVIE1921
Brewster's Millions
as Harrison
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6.7
MOVIE1938
In Old Mexico
as Hopalong Cassidy
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4.7
MOVIE1943
False Colors
as Hopalong Cassidy
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8.5
MOVIE1976
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
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6.2
MOVIE1932
Flaming Gold
as Dan Manton
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5.7
MOVIE1929
The Leatherneck
as William Calhoun
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6.7
MOVIE1927
The Yankee Clipper
as Hal Winslow
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7.0
MOVIE1924
Feet of Clay
as Young Society Man (uncredited)
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5.5
MOVIE1941
Secret of the Wastelands
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.4
MOVIE1941
In Old Colorado
as Hopalong Cassidy
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9.0
MOVIE1925
New Lives for Old
as Soldier (uncredited)
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6.0
MOVIE1948
The Dead Don't Dream
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.0
MOVIE1940
The Showdown
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.0
MOVIE1947
Unexpected Guest
as Hopalong Cassidy
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5.8
MOVIE1940
Hidden Gold
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.8
MOVIE1920
Something to Think About
as (uncredited)
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6.7
MOVIE1948
Borrowed Trouble
as Hopalong Cassidy
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7.0
MOVIE1926
Her Man o' War
as Jim Sanderson
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6.5
MOVIE1939
Silver on the Sage
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.3
MOVIE1947
Dangerous Venture
as Hopalong Cassidy
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9.0
MOVIE1921
A Wise Fool
as Gerard Fynes
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7.3
MOVIE1934
Port of Lost Dreams
as Lars Christensen
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9.0
MOVIE1923
Enemies of Children
as Sidney Godfrey
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6.5
MOVIE1944
Texas Masquerade
as Hopalong Cassidy
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7.0
MOVIE1924
Changing Husbands
as Conrad Bardshaw
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6.3
MOVIE1941
Border Vigilantes
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.5
MOVIE1936
Burning Gold
as Jim Thornton
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6.3
MOVIE1948
False Paradise
as William "Hopalong" Cassidy
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8.0
MOVIE1923
The Temple of Venus
as Stanley Dale
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9.0
MOVIE1920
The Six Best Cellars
as Holsappel (uncredited)
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8.0
MOVIE1922
Nice People
as Oliver Comstock
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7.0
MOVIE1926
Eve's Leaves
as Bill Stanley
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5.8
MOVIE1928
Skyscraper
as Blondy
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6.0
MOVIE1940
Stagecoach War
as Hopalong Cassidy
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6.3
MOVIE1946
The Devil's Playground
as Hopalong Cassidy
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10.0
MOVIE1922
Bobbed Hair
as Dick Barton
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4.9
MOVIE1936
Go-Get-'Em, Haines
as Steve Haines
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5.8
MOVIE1937
Rustlers' Valley
as Hopalong Cassidy
MOVIE1930
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
as William Boyd
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8.0
MOVIE1935
Racing Luck
as Dan Morgan
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8.0
MOVIE1924
Tarnish
as Bill
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9.0
MOVIE1920
A City Sparrow
as Hughie Ray
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8.0
MOVIE1921
After the Show
as (uncredited)