Wife of William ‘Hopalong Cassidy’ Boyd dies at age 97 Grace Bradley Boyd gave up her own acting career to devote herself to her movie actor husband. Posted September 24, 2010 ...

Grace Bradley Boyd, who died Tuesday at age 97 at her home in Dana Point, was a 23-year-old Hollywood actress when she met the love of her life, William “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd, in 1937.

Actor William Boyd, from the popular "Hopalong Cassidy" motion pictures, poses behind a 1898 Pioneer Road Coach, at an exhibit in the Museum of the New York Historical Society, on Dec. 2, 1946.

William Boyd, playing Hopalong Cassidy, was the cowboy hero of the silver screen, radio and television to many a baby boomer. Along with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, Boyd defined the Western film genre.

In honor of late longtime resident William Boyd, the city is naming its first trail after the actor known to generations of television viewers as Western star Hopalong Cassidy.

Grace Bradley Boyd, an actress who came to Hollywood as a Paramount contract player in the early 1930s but abandoned her career after marrying the love of her life, William “Hopalong Cassidy ...

Grace Bradley Boyd, who came to Hollywood as a Paramount contract player in the early 1930s but abandoned her career after marrying the love of her life, William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, has died ...

Every May for the past 25 years, Cambridge - where actor William Boyd spent a decade of his childhood in the early 1900s - celebrates the life of the man who dressed in all black, climbed atop his ...

William Boyd points his gun at Clark Gable in scene from the 1929 Pathe film "Painted Desert." At the time, Boyd --perhaps better known in the role of Hopalong Cassidy--was a star, while Gable, a ...