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Silent film star William Boyd (1895-1972) first played Hopalong Cassidy in 1935 and continued playing the part in film and TV until his retirement in... more
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Silent film star William Boyd (1895-1972) first played Hopalong Cassidy in 1935 and continued playing the part in film and TV until his retirement in 1953.
Boyd had wisely bought the rights to all the Hoppy features shrewdly anticipating that TV would need product, as it exploded in the late 1940's/early 1950's.
Boyd also marketed seemingly endless Hoppy merchandise.
His 1930's Westerns were competition to Duke's in the one horse rural communities, lucky enough to have a movie theater.
@2009 David Lee Guss Film homage, JW, William Boyd, Hopalong Cassidy cut-out, Helldorado Days, Tombstone, AZ, 2004
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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