Movie Legends - William Boyd

Actor and Star of the character 'Hopalong Cassidy'

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• WILLIAM
• BOYD
• HOPALONG
• CASSIDY

[dia33386]

Baz~ Wonderful tribute to William Boyd! Gotta *love* your musical bkgds - the BEST!

Always thought it rather sad that b/c of his

"serial" role as that one character - he never made in other movies. Heaven knows he had the looks, the *voice* & (I believe) the talent to be more.

[basilnelson]

Yes, I agree with you. There was certainly more to William Boyd than just 'Hopalong Cassidy'. Glad you enjoyed the video! BAZ

[Corrie121]

Brings back happy memories of Saturday matinee shows inthe 1940's.

Thank you for sharing.

[jakepontillo]

@coldiron7777 Absolutely. He was my hero when I was a child and looking at this I can see why - brought tears to my eyes, too. God, it was good to be one of Hoppy's guys!

[McGrenzer]

The luminous face of one of my childhood heroes. Thanks so much, basil.

[ebfan41]

What a cowboy hero "Hoppy" was and how grand he looked sitting on his horse"Topper". All the kids in the neighborhood watched the "Hopalong Cassidy" Show on Sat. morning.I loved your tribute video to William Boyd. Very interesting pictures and video. 5*****

[SourcefulGamer]

Im related to William Boyd, I had no Idea how popular he was back in the day after I just looked up his name on Google. William Boyd Lie's on my grandpa's side of the family. It's really amazing these day's with what you can find on the internet if you want to look up your family's history.

[stojiny]

Your video of Hoppy is one of the best that I've seen, photos and music. If he was still living, he would be very proud of this. He was my favorite when I was growing up. I had a 78rpm record of him telling stories and listened to it for many, many years. Thank you very much for this piece. Take care, Stojiny

[oldschoolpaulie]

@LkOutMtnMan Yes, he was an actor who became the character.

[LkOutMtnMan]

@oldschoolpaulie Great thing about Hoppy was that he was sort of a scoundrel until he realized that kids looked up to him and he changed, started living up to the image he represented, made himself into the hero we all wanted to see riding Topper! And for my part I'm glad he wasn't another singing cowboy!

[Bandtrip50]

This is when we had real heroes.

Now we have Rap gangsters.

Just about everything sucks today. Even with

the great technology.

[tunester13]

A beautiful video remembrance of Hoppy -- my favorite cowboy hero of the past. Very well assembled and the music was very good too. An outstanding tribute.

[whitt702]

Not only Robert Mitchum, but there was Clark Gable in one of the early ones, too. Did you know that. I will have to hunt all through my books, but I can find it.

[68lifeguard]

I have watched many Hoppy movies recently and Bob Mitchum and George Reeves and Lee J. Cobb were in a few of his movies

[106732]

Did you notice Robert Mitchum.? he played a bad guy in several Hoppy movies long before he became a star

[goldman8073]

TV came to Australia in 1957, and William Boyd also came to Australia, as far as I can remember mid 1960's. He was mobbed where-ever he went - as Hopalong was very popular at that time.

Great music by the way - and great memories come flooding back.  Thanks for posting.

[basilnelson]

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the video tribute. Hoppy's white stallion was named Topper.

[misspaddylee]

Wow! That was nice.

[oldschoolpaulie]

There's a photo in that montage of James Arness in the "Matt Dillon" costume, and Boyd in the "Hoppy" custome, facing each other. Anyone know where this came from? I know Arness was not in any "Hoppy" episodes, and I don't think "Hoppy" was ever on a Gunsmoke episode. Were they in a film together?

[oldschoolpaulie]

Go with God, Hoppy

[coldiron7777]

I disagree. Bill Boyd became Hopalong. His contribution to young people in that era is immeasurable. The fact that watching that tribute now as a 66 year old man brought tears to my eyes says it all.

[Islandjerry]

Outstanding, simply outstanding. Thank you

Jerry Lames

[flushing5]

The character of Hopalong Cassidy was very important to kids growing up in the fifties. I can still hear "Hoppy's" laugh. It was very comforting to live in a world where you knew the bad guys were going to be punished.

[niceguy63073]

I know that he made a lot of films but I have never seen any of them. He is one of those actors that I have to catch up with; i don't know enough about him.

[rocha39]

omg this is a wonderful composition, William Boyd was a stayer and fine actor

You outdid yourself Baz, ty very much x