THE Life & Career of Actor

                                                                                    (7/4/1931 - 6/2/1977)

Charlton Heston mentions Boyd in an interview with Barnes & Noble.com:

B&N.com: You and Stephen Boyd did so much of your own stunt work for the movie. That would be much easier today, right?

CH: Well, we both learned to drive the chariot. Indeed, Stephen deserves credit because he came on board relatively late. I had been learning to drive the chariot for the better part of a month before Stephen joined the cast and came down from Britain. But he really dug into it and he did a wonderful job. Of course, the author of the chariot race is [second-unit director] Yakima Canutt. He directed it. William Wyler told him to direct it. And he had full control over it.

March 20, 2001