He made 54 Hopalong Cassidy pictures before he was fired in 1943. Because “no one in Hollywood thought of me as anything but Hopalong Cassidy,” Boyd found that he could not get another movie job.

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.

Boyd has another reason for his decline: another actor named William Boyd (who had played Sergeant Quirt in the Broadway version of What Price Glory?) was raided by the police during a noisy party ...

When I was invited over to watch “Hopalong Cassidy,” his mother served us potato chips and Royal Crown Cola. VERY TASTY. The glass bottles had a yellow pyramid adorning them but (because we ...

As a hard-riding, straight-shooting cowboy, William (“Hopalong Cassidy”) Boyd has been the star of dozens of B movies. Last week, as Cowboy Boyd strode into New Orleans’ D. H. Holmes ...

Boyd was born on June 5, 1895, in Hendrysburg and grew up in Cambridge, Ohio. Boyd became known for his hero cowboy role Hopalong Cassidy. Linda F. Robertson is the featured speaker.

Hopalong Cassidy was a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 for a Western novel. Here is his creed for American boys and girls.

Former Tulsan William Lawrence Boyd, a one-time playboy, became a "wonderful guy" to conform to characteristics of his movie screen role as the good guy in the black hat.

A midcentury modern home built by the actor who played Hopalong Cassidy is up for grabs in Palm Desert, Calif., for $1.2 million.