Lawrence Barret

He died on the 20th of March 1891. On his passing, Stephen Boyd was interred in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. He wrote a life of Edwip Forrest in the American Actors Series (Boston, 1881), and an admirable sketch of Edwin Booth in Edwin Booth and his Contemporaries (Boston, 1886). He died of a heart attack while playing golf. He acted in London in 1867, 1881, 1883 and 1884, his Richelieu in Bulwer Lytton's drama being considered his best part. His career declined in the 70s and he appeared in several European potboilers before making a comeback in Michael Apted's British gangster thriller The Squeeze (1977). He played Othello to Booth’s Iago and Cassius to his Brutus. His non-epic roles included the musical Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) opposite Doris Day, the Hollywood melodrama The Oscar (1966), the sci-fi special effects extravaganza Fantastic Voyage (1966), the spy thriller Assignment K (1969) and the international Western Shalako (1969), shot in Spain.

Among his many and varied parts may be mentioned Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, Shylock, Richard III., Wolsey, Benedick, Richelieu, David Garrick, Hernani, Alfred Evelyn, Lanciotto in George Henry Boker's (1823—1890) Francesca da Rimini, and Janies Harebell in The Man o’ Airlie. Boyd also appeared in John Huston's Biblical epic The Bible...in the Beginning (1966) and was top-billed in another costumed epic Genghis Khan (1965), filmed in Yugoslavia. He appeared in the French-produced Napoleonic epic Imperial Venus (1962), playing opposite Gina Lollobrigida. From 1867 to 1870, with John M'Cullough, he managed the California theatre, San Francisco. Mankiewicz and the role of Mark Antony went to Richard Burton). He served with distinction in the Civil War as captain in the 28th Massachusetts infantry regiment. He was originally chosen to play Mark Antony opposite Elizabeth Taylor in 20th Century-Fox's epic production of Cleopatra under the direction of Rouben Mamoulian, but eventually withdrew from the problem-plagued production when he commmitted to star in The Fall of the Roman Empire (Cleopatra was later directed by Joseph L. In 1858 he was in the stock company at the Boston Museum. His role as Messala in Ben-Hur (1959) propelled him to international fame and he was thereafter fated to play roles wearing breastplates and Roman togas, as in Samuel Bronston's The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), in which he co-starred with Sophia Loren.

In December 1856 he made his first New York appearance at the Chambers Street theatre as Sir Thomas Clifford in The Hunchback. He went to Hollywood and appeared as second leads in a variety of films. He made his first stage appearance at Detroit as Murad in The French Spy in 1853. Boyd began in British films, but it was his role in a 1957 French film Les bijoutiers du clair de lune (English title: Heaven Fell That Night) opposite Brigitte Bardot that got him noticed. His family name was Brannigan. Stephen Boyd (July 4, 1931 - June 2, 1977) - was an Irish actor, born in Glengormley in Northern Ireland, who starred in over fifty films. Lawrence Barret (1838—1891), American actor, was born of Irish parents in Paterson, New Jersey, on the 4th of April 1838.