Stephen Boyd
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Stephen Boyd was a person whose professional career began in 1955. He lived from July 4, 1931, to June 2, 1977. His recorded output includes five works according to Crossref data.
Open Library lists thirty-three works associated with the author name Stephen Boyd. Notable titles include *Colson's Way*, *What Would a Different Economy and Work Look Like?*, *Dynamic Network Energy Management via Proximal Message Passing*, *Simple Method for Predicting Covariance Matrices of Financial Returns*, and *Far East New Colliegate English Chinese Dictionary*.
The subject is referenced by 286 other encyclopedia articles. MusicBrainz classifies the artist type as Person, while Last.fm records 254 listeners and a playcount of 1324.
Synthesized by Vinony from 14 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 33
Top works
- Colson's Way
- What Would a Different Economy and Work Look Like?
- Dynamic Network Energy Management via Proximal Message Passing
- Simple Method for Predicting Covariance Matrices of Financial Returns
- Far East New Colliegate English Chinese Dictionary
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 254
- Total plays
- 1,324
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Boyd">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,825x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 41,091x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 29,335x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,546x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 23,129x
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Key facts
- Born
- William Millar , ( 1931-07-04 ) 4 July 1931, Whitehouse, County Antrim , Northern Ireland
- Died
- 2 June 1977 (1977-06-02) (aged 45), Northridge, Los Angeles , California, US
- Resting place
- Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1955–1977
- Spouses
- Mariella di Sarzana ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1959 ) Elizabeth Mills ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1974 )
- Partner
- Marisa Mell (1970–1972)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
William Millar (4 July 1931 – 2 June 1977), better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was an actor from Northern Ireland. 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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stephen Boyd” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.