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Assignment K,
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Assignment K
(1968)
Runtime: 97 min
Country:
UK
Language: English
Synopsis: Philip Scott, head of a
successful toy company, is also secretly the head of a British spy unit. When
his cover is blown, enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal
the identities of his operatives.
Cast: Stephen Boyd, Camilla
Sparv, Michael Redgrave
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Stephen Boyd
Born: 4 July 1931, Glengormley,
Northern Ireland, UK
Died: 2 June 1977 Granada Hills, California,
USA.
From Imdb.com: Born William Millar on July 4, 1931, at Glengormley,
Northern Ireland. Mother was Martha Boyd, father Canadian truck driver James
Alexander Millar who worked for Fleming's on Tomb Street in Belfast. Billy was
one of nine children. He attended Glengormley & Ballyrobert primary school
and then moved on to Ballyclare High School and studied bookkeeping at Hughes
Commercial Academy. By 1956 he signed a seven-year contract with 20th
Century-Fox. This led to his first film role, as an Irish spy for the Nazis in
The Man Who Never Was (1956), a job he
was offered by legendary producer Alexander Korda. William Wyler was so struck
by Boyd's performance in that film that he asked Fox to lend him Boyd,
resulting in Boyd's being cst in what is probably his most famous role, that of
Messala in the classic Ben-Hur (1959) opposite Charlton Heston. He was honored
for his work by receiving a Golden Globe award but was surprisingly bypassed on
Oscar night. Still under contract with Fox, Boyd waited around to play the role
of Marc Anthony in Cleopatra (1963) opposite Elizabeth Taylor. However, Taylor
became so seriously ill that the production was delayed for months, which
caused Boyd and other actors to withdraw from the film and move on to other
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