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The son of a day laborer, William Boyd moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was seven. His parents died while he was in his early teens, forcing him to quit school and take such jobs as a grocery clerk, surveyor and oil field worker. He went to Hollywood in 1919, already gray-haired. His first role was as an extra in Cecil B. DeMille's Why Change Your Wife? (1920). He bought some fancy clothes, caught DeMille's eye and got the romantic lead in The Volga Boatman (1926), quickly becoming a matinée idol and earning upwards of $100,000 a year. However, with the end of silent movies, Boyd was without a contract, couldn't find work and was going broke. By mistake his picture was run in a newspaper story about the arrest of another actor with a similar name (William 'Stage' Boyd) on gambling, liquor and morals charges, and that hurt his career even more. In 1935 he was offered the lead role in Hop-a-Long Cassidy (1935) (named because of a limp caused by an earlier bullet wound). He changed the original pulp-fiction character to its opposite, made sure that "Hoppy" didn't smoke, drink, chew tobacco or swear, rarely kissed a girl and let the bad guy draw first. By 1943 he had made 54 "Hoppies" for his original producer, Harry Sherman; after Sherman dropped the series, Boyd produced and starred in 12 more on his own. The series was wildly popular, and all recouped at least double their production costs. In 1948 Boyd, in a savvy and precedent-setting move, bought the rights to all his pictures (he had to sell his ranch to raise the money) just as TV was looking for Saturday morning Western fare. He marketed all sorts of "Hoppy" products (lunch boxes, toy guns, cowboy hats, etc.) and received royalties from comic books, radio and records. He retired to Palm Desert, California, in 1953. In 1968 he had surgery to remove a tumor from a lymph gland and from then on refused all interview and photograph requests.- Yasushi Nagata was born on 11 October 1907 in Nagasaki, Japan. He was an actor, known for Stray Dog (1949), The Man in the Moonlight Mask (1958) and Mitsu-kubi-tou (1956). He died on 12 September 1972.
- Jean-Jacques Bernard was born on 30 July 1888 in Enghien-les-Bains, France. He was a writer, known for Le rêve (1931), L'absolution (1922) and La fille de Madame Angot (1935). He died on 12 September 1972 in Paris, France.
- Lewis Glaser was born on 27 April 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He died on 12 September 1972 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Production Manager
- Additional Crew
- Writer
Nate H. Edwards was born on 18 March 1902 in Deming, New Mexico, USA. He was a production manager and writer, known for The High and the Mighty (1954), Plunder of the Sun (1953) and Anything Once (1925). He died on 12 September 1972 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Mayme Stocker was born on 5 September 1875 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. She was married to Oscar Stocker. She died on 12 September 1972 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Berd Jönsson was born on 5 April 1935 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He was an actor, known for The Ways of Women (1970). He died on 12 September 1972 in West Germany.
- Leonard Barry was born on 28 February 1922. He was an actor, known for Suspense (1949), Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) and Short Short Dramas (1952). He died on 12 September 1972 in Suffern, New York, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Arvid Englind was born on 18 June 1882 in Helsinki, Finland. He was a director and writer, known for Patriks äventyr (1915), Brandsoldaten (1916) and En förvillelse (1915). He died on 12 September 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden.