Stephen BoydStephen Boyd (July 4, 1931 - June 2, 1977) - was an Irish actor, born in Glengormley in Northern Ireland, who starred in over fifty films. 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. He went to Hollywood and appeared as second leads in a variety of films. 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. 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. Mankiewicz and the role of Mark Antony went to Richard Burton). 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. 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. 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 died of a heart attack while playing golf. On his passing, Stephen Boyd was interred in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. This page about Stephen Boyd includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Stephen Boyd News stories about Stephen Boyd External links for Stephen Boyd Videos for Stephen Boyd Wikis about Stephen Boyd Discussion Groups about Stephen Boyd Blogs about Stephen Boyd Images of Stephen Boyd |
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On his passing, Stephen Boyd was interred in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. On October 16, 2003, a controversy surfaced over alleged abusive behaviour by Cantinflas’s son towards Cantinflas. He died of a heart attack while playing golf. The Real Academia Española has included the verb cantinflear in its dictionary . 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). This manner of talking became known as Cantinfleada, and it became common parlance for Spanish speakers to say ¡estas cantinfleando! (loosely translated as you're pulling a 'Cantinflas'! or you're 'Cantinflassing'!) whenever someone became hard to understand in conversation. 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 the things that endeared him to his public was his comic use of language in his films: his characters, like El Barrendero, loved to strike up a normal conversation with anyone in the movie, and then complicate the conversation to the point where no one understood what they were talking about. 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. Cantinflas has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame and when he died in 1993, the US Senate held a minute of silence to honor his memory. Mankiewicz and the role of Mark Antony went to Richard Burton). Cantinflas was so fond of bullfighting that he played his torero scenes himself . 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. He invested his earnings in real estate and in the sport of bullfighting. 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. Later, Cantinflas became President of the Mexican actors' union as well as Secretary of their filmworkers' union. He went to Hollywood and appeared as second leads in a variety of films. Cantinflas went to Hollywood in the 1950s, making two popular movies in English, Around the World in Eighty Days and Pepe. 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. From there on, Cantinflas went on to make more than 50 feature films, becoming a widely known entertainer and legendary comic all over Latin America and in Spain. Stephen Boyd (July 4, 1931 - June 2, 1977) - was an Irish actor, born in Glengormley in Northern Ireland, who starred in over fifty films. The phrase that gave that movie its name became a Cantinflas catch phrase for the rest of his career. He also appeared in a few movies during that time, but it was in 1940, that Cantinflas finally became a movie star, after shooting Ahí está el detalle. In 1935, he joined the Follies Bergere theater, becoming a popular figure on Mexico's theater scene. Cantinflas started out performing at a circus in the 1930s. It is a little known fact that Cantinflas was in the military and later, also a professional boxer before he joined to the entertainment world as a dancer. Cantinflas did not start his professional life as an entertainer. Charlie Chaplin once called Cantinflas the 'funniest man in the world'. Mario Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 - April 20, 1993), better known as Cantinflas, was a Mexican actor, circus performer and comedian. Cantinflas. No te engañes corazón (1936) ... El Tejón. ¡Así es mi tierra! (1937) ... Polito Sol. Águila o sol (1937) http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/peliculas/aguila.html ... Cantinflas. El signo de la muerte (1939) ... Chencho Albondigón (cortometraje publicitario). Siempre listo en las tinieblas (1939) ... Bala Fría (cortometraje publicitario). Jengibre contra dinamita (1939) ... Cantinflas (cortometraje publicitario). Cantinflas en los censos (1940) ... Cantinflas (cortometraje publicitario). Cantinflas boxeador (1940) ... Cantinflas (cortometraje publicitario). Cantinflas ruletero (1940) ... Cantinflas (cortometraje). Cantinflas y su prima (La prima de Cantinflas) (1940) ... Cantinflas/"Leonardo del Paso". Ahí está el detalle (1940) http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/peliculas/detalle.html... El Chato/Manuel Márquez "Manolete". Ni sangre ni arena (1941) ... Cantinflas, el 777. El gendarme desconocido (1941) ... participación involuntaria. Carnaval en el trópico (Fiesta en Veracruz) (1941) ... Cantinflas/D'Artagnan. Los tres mosqueteros (1942) ... el zapatero. El circo (1942) ... ruletero/Romeo de Montesco. Romeo y Julieta (1943) ... Cantinflas. Gran Hotel (1944) ... el voceador. Un día con el diablo (1945) ... Cantinflas. Soy un prófugo (1946) ... Cantinflas. ¡A volar joven! (1947) ... Cantinflas. El supersabio (1948) ... Cantinflas. El mago (1948) ... Cantinflas. Puerta, joven (El portero) (1949) ... Margarito/El Siete Machos. El Siete Machos (1950) ... El bombero atómico, el 777. El bombero atómico (1950) ... Cantinflas. Si yo fuera diputado (1951) ... participación. Lluvia de estrellas (1951) ... Cantinflas. El señor fotógrafo (1952) ... Cantinflas. Caballero a la medida (1953) ... Cantinflas. Abajo el telón (1954) ... Cantinflas. El bolero de Raquel (1956) ... Paspartout (producción estadounidense). Around the World in Eighty Days (La vuelta al mundo en ochenta días) (1956) ... Cantinflas. Ama a tu prójimo (1958) ... Cantinflas. Sube y baja (1958) ... Pepe (coproducción con los Estados Unidos). Pepe (1960) ... Inocencio Prieto y Calvo. El analfabeto (1960) ... Rogaciano. El extra (1962) ... Feliciano Calloso. Entrega inmediata (1963) ... padre Sebastián o Sebas. El padrecito (1964) ... doctor Salvador Medina. El señor doctor (1965) ... Lopitos. Su excelencia (1966) ... Fidencio Barrenillo. Por mis pistolas (1968) ... Justo Leal y Aventado. Un Quijote sin mancha (1969) ... Sócrates García. El profe (1970) ... Sancho Panza (coproducción con España). Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo (1972) ... Úrsulo. Conserje en condominio (1973) ... Mateo Melgarejo. El ministro y yo (1975) ... Diógenes Bravo. El patrullero 777 (1977) ... Napoleón. El barrendero (1981) ... |