Stephen Boyd

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Stephen Boyd (4 July 1931 to 2 June 1977) was a Northern Irish actor.

Boyd, a native of Glengormley, County Antrim, appeared in 60 films, most notable as the antagonistic Messala in Ben-Hur (1959), which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.

Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) received his second Golden Globe Award nomination for him.

In major big-screen films, he appeared as a hero and occasionally as a malefactor (1958).

Personal life

Boyd's biography appeared in Silver Screen Magazine in 1960: This is a story about him.

Boyd's appeal was described in a 1966 feature by journalist Florabel Muir. "I would expect it to be his ruggedly masculine good looks." A solid, even craggy nose, a wide-eyed smile, a sleek chin, athletic build, wavy dark brown hair, and roving 185-lbs. frame: All the plus a musical voice and a well-traveled companion's savoir faire have taken him to various locations around the world, and a rolling stone gets a high shine."

Boyd attracted Hollywood columnists, including his mentor Hedda Hopper, as well as other actresses and other staff of the entertainment industry, due to his charm and sense of humor. "Boyd is the kind of man who was meant to make friends and has been doing it all his life."Boyd is a blue-eyed, curly-haired piece of masculinity that makes no attempt to mask the fact that he simply loves people." He rarely used the spacious portable dressing room set aside for his use on Ben-Hur's set-up. Rather, he spent his time between scenes of sitting around and chatting with electricians, carpenters, and his fellow actors. He will address any topic and loves a good argument. He can, as well as sagacity, sprinkle his wit with humour and sagacity.

During the filming of Ben-Hur, he first married Mariella Di Sarzana, an Italian-born MCA executive. They were separated after only three weeks. Boyd, who suffered with his short-lived marriage to Sarzana, said, "It was my fault." When I'm at work, I'm an Irish so-and-so. I hadn't been married for a week before we learned we'd made a mistake. She is a wonderful girl, but we weren't meant to meet together. I suppose I wasn't able to marry yet. I suppose I was still too much of an adolescent." In early 1959, the couple officially separated. Boyd was a bachelor for the majority of his life, dating several well-known Hollywood actresses in the 1960s. Elizabeth Mills, his secretary, was a permanent resident at his Tarzana home during those years, but not married until 1974.

He had a deep and lasting friendship with actor and French actress Brigitte Bardot, with whom he appeared in two films, The Night Heaven Fell in 1958 and Shalako in 1968. Bardot and Boyd's close friendship and open admiration for each other sparked a number of rumors of a potential affair during the filming of Shakalo in Almer, Spain. At one time, Brigitte's husband, Gunter Sachs, had to request a divorce. "Boyn's autobiography, she chronicled Boyd's life and states that she never knew him as her husband but a tender and attentive friend." "Bardot is always Bardot," Boyd said in an interview with Photoplay Film in 1968. She's amazing. She's a natural performer and she's a natural, beautiful woman. I adore her." Despite the fact that both actors denied the affair, the news was "convinced" that Brigitte and Boyd openly confessed their love for each other, but that the publication of the report on their romance cooled it."

Boyd had a close friendship with actress Dolores Hart, who referred to what was her only love in her autobiography The Ear of the Heart. The boyd eventually turned down her advances, but they remained close friends even after she returned to the cloistered life of a nun in 1963. In 1966, he visited her at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut, and remained in touch with her into the early 1970s.

Marisa Mell, an Austrian actress, seems to have been Stephen Boyd's most personal affair. They met while filming Marta in 1970. The boyd started avoiding Marisa Mell's amorous advances, but the two became inseparable lovers in The Great Swindle, their second film together. In late 1971, the two married in a gypsy camp on the outskirts of Madrid. To seal their marriage, the ceremony included a wrist cutting exchange of blood. The marriage was not considered legal, but Marisa Mell said, "Who cares?" It will be real in our minds." Their relationship was so intense that they went to Sarsina, Italy, for a religious exorcism at the Cathedral of St. Vicinius, according to Marisa Mell. Since the intensity seemed to be too much to bear, the boyd abruptly ended the affair. Mell had this to say about Boyd's demise in early 1972: "We both believe in reincarnation, and we've already been lovers in three separate lifetimes, and in each one I made him suffer terribly." Mell recalled Boyd from childhood in her autobiography Cover Love, dedicating a chapter to their family's story.

Boyd's last marriage took place in 1974 to Elizabeth Mills, a British Arts Council secretary who had been alive since 1953. Elizabeth Mills followed Boyd to the United States in the late 1950s and spent years as his personal assistant, mentor, and confidante until marrying him in the mid-1970s.

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