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Boyd was born in Hendrysburg, Ohio and reared in Cambridge, Ohio and Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he lived from 1909 to 1913. [1] He was the son of day laborer Charles William Boyd and his wife Lida (née Wilkens). Following his father's death, Boyd moved to California and worked as an orange picker, surveyor, tool dresser and auto salesman. [2]
Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), [4] to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters.His father Alexander, a doctor specialising in tropical medicine, and Boyd's mother, who was a teacher, moved to the Gold Coast in 1950 to run the health clinic at the University College of the Gold Coast, Legon (now the University of Ghana).
She married William B. Boyd in 1982. Boyd died on January 29, 2016, at her home in Racine, Wisconsin , aged 91. [ 5 ] She was survived by three children, a granddaughter, and two stepdaughters.
George Francis "Gabby" Hayes (7 May 1885 – 9 February 1969) was an American actor. He began as something of a leading man and a character player, but he was best known for his numerous appearances in B-Western film series as the bewhiskered, cantankerous, but ever-loyal and brave comic sidekick of the cowboy stars William Boyd, Roy Rogers and John Wayne.
William Boyd (m.1937-1972; his death) Grace Bradley (September 21, 1913 – September 21, 2010) [1] was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during ...
Actor William Boyd and his wife Grace, in Australia promoting Hopalong Cassidy, 1954. Boyd thought Hopalong Cassidy might have a future in television, so he sold or mortgaged most of what he owned to buy the character rights from Mulford and the backlog of movies from Sherman, spending $350,000 to obtain the rights to his old films. [4]
In a prolific literary career spanning 18 novels, William Boyd has become known for his masterfully interwoven plots, his sweeping historical backdrops, and his consistent readability.. From the ...
Ordinary Thunderstorms is a 2009 novel by William Boyd. ... Ingram is married with three children and is about to reap large profits from the introduction of a new ...