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Stephen Boyd:
IRISHMAN
IN A TOGA
The handsome villain of "Ben-Hur" is slated
for a second Roman epic but he's proving
he can handle other kinds of roles, too
By PEER J. OPPENHEIMER
STEPHEN BOYD thundered into the movie spot
light as the villainous chariot driver Mes
sala in "Ben-Hur."
But, to the distress of himself and his newly won fans,
he thundered right out again in a series of unspectacular
that gave him little chance to prove his acting ability.
There was new hope for stardom when the handsome
Irishman landed another Roman role, that of Marc Antony
in "Cleopatra." But the production of that picture dragged
out endlessly, and when the film was finally made, Richard
Burton as everyone knows by now played the starring
role opposite Liz Taylor.
Now, however, Steve's career looks promising again.
He is about to don a toga to portray the lead in a multimillion-dollar
production of "The Fall of the Roman Em
pire" opposite Sophia Loren. After that he will return to
Hollywood to make "The San Franciscans."
The latter will be his second film for Joe Pasternak. The
first iB the newly released "Jumbo," a circus musical in
which Steve shows talent as a song-and-dance man.
Actually, his musical accomplishments came as no sur
prise to those who remembered that he is a skilled guitar
player who once sang for his meals!
"When I was broke, I used to walk along the queues out
side the theaters in London singing folk songs to my own
accompaniment and then pass around my cap to collect
coins. We call this 'busking' at home. I did all right till the
buskers' union caught up with me and chased me away from
my favorite spot thus cutting short my musical career!"
Steve's trying years in London began when he arrived
there at 20, fresh from his native Belfast in Northern Ire
land. Life had been difficult at home for the youngest of
nine children of a poor truck driver but it turned out to be
even more difficult in the big, impersonal British capital.
Steve wanted to find theatrical work, but it wasn't to be
had, so he took whatever odd jobs he could get At one
time his income was so low that he became ill from mal
nutrition. Yet it was one of his odd jobs that finally got him
a break as an actor.
He was working as an usher at the theater where the
British Film Annual Awards were presented. When he
helped Sir Michael Redgrave on stage, the well-known
Boyd won fame in "Ben-Hur," but he's equally
good as a song-and-dance man iu new "Jumbo."
British star smiled and said, "I'm not sure that you aren't
one of the best actors on the stage tonight . . ."
"I am an actor," Steve replied promptly.
"So what are you doing as an usher?" Redgrave asked.
Steve told him he was out of work. For the first time in
his life, Redgrave backed a hunch by recommending some
one for a job whom he had never seen act. The result was
several weeks of work with a theatrical stock company,
which soon was followed by bit parts in movies and tv plays.
The turning point of Steve's career came in 1958 when
he won the part of Messala in "Ben-Hur" a role that
almost cost his life when he insisted on doing 90 percent of
the chariot racing himself rather than use a stunt man. "I
did my own dragging, and at one point I had the chariot
right on top of me. We were going about 30 miles an hour at
the time. A good part of the skin came off my back."
BUT AFTER "BEN-HUR," the parts that followed did not live
up to expectations. "So when Joe Pasternak offered
me the lead in 'Jumbo' opposite Doris Day, I jumped at the
opportunity particularly since it was a musical and
offered me a change of pace," Steve said.
Steve is not bitter about his struggle in Hollywood. His
life has conditioned him to hard work and patience.
He likes to tell of his first visit home after his success
in "Ben-Hur." When he arrived at the Belfast airport, his
father approached him, held out his hand, and said simply,
"Nice to see you." Steve leaned over to kiss his mother.
"From then on," he recalled, "everything was back to
normal, just as if I'd never left home."
"To an outsider this may seem formal," Stephen ad
mitted. "But it's a characteristic of the Irish. We don't
believe in a show of emotion, but affection is there and
open to you when you want it and need it. I prefer this
kind of attitude to that which I feel is so typical of Holly-,
wood. Putting up a front to impress others can never have
any meaning to me. Not the way I was raised !"
The 34-year-old bachelor puts into practice the philos
ophy he inherited from his parents. In spite of his success,
he lives in a modest home, drives a rented compact car,
associates primarily with non-movie people, and shows a
disinterest in worldly goods that is particularly surprising
considering the poverty he knew as a youth.
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