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Northern Irish actor (1931–1977)

For other people named Stephen Boyd, see Stephen Boyd (disambiguation).

William Millar (4 July 1931 – 2 June 1977), better known by his stage nameStephen Boyd, was an actor from Northern Ireland.

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He emerged as a leading man during the late 1950s with his role as the villainous Messala in Ben-Hur (1959), a role that earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. He received his second Golden Globe nomination for the musical Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962).

Boyd also appeared, sometimes as a hero and sometimes as a malefactor, in the major big-screen productions The Man Who Never Was (1956), The Night Heaven Fell (1958), The Bravados (1958), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Genghis Khan (1965), Fantastic Voyage (1966), The Bible: In the Beginning... (also 1966) and Shalako (1968).

Biography

Early life

Stephen Boyd was born on 4 July 1931 in Whitehouse, County Antrim.