Stephen Boyd

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, 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. Boyd also appeared, sometimes as a hero and sometimes as a malefactor, in the major big-screen productions The Man Who Never Was, The Night Heaven Fell, The Bravados, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Genghis Khan, Fantastic Voyage, The Bible: In the Beginning..., and Shalako. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)