# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-boyd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:12:54.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-boyd"
name: "Stephen Boyd"
slug: "stephen-boyd"
description: "William Millar, 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)."
tagline: "Northern Irish actor (1931–1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_Boyd.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1931-07-04"
deathDate: "1977-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump