William Joyce (actor)
{{short description|American actor}}
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| caption = William Joyce in I Eat Your Skin
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| birth_place = Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|09|03|1930|10|21}}
| death_place = Encino, California
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| nationality = {{USA}}
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| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1950–1990
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William Joyce (October 21, 1930 – September 3, 1998) was an American actor.
In 1959, Jack Webb picked him over Jimmy Dean to play the title role in a television adaptation of Johnny Guitar. That year he also played "Drew" in S1E11 of Bat Masterson.
A life member of The Actors Studio, Joyce's film roles included Senator Charles Carroll in The Parallax View and writer Tom Harris in I Eat Your Skin.
Filmography
- Top Banana (1954) - Dancer (uncredited)
- The Wings of Eagles (1957) - Naval Aide (uncredited)
- This Could Be the Night (1957) - Bruce Cameron
- Man on Fire (1957) - Chamberlain (uncredited)
- Don't Go Near the Water (1957) - Lt. Boone (uncredited)
- Tales of Wells Fargo- The Legacy (1959) - Tom Casement
- Have Gun Will Travel- Day of the Badman'' (1960) - Laredo
- I Eat Your Skin (shot in 1964, released in 1971) - Tom Harris
- The Young Nurses (1973) - Fairbanks
- The Parallax View (1974) - Senator Charles Carroll
- Lifeguard (1976) - Lifeguard Captain
References
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{{cite news |work=Pittsburgh Press |title=Webb's Western Effort: Pilot Film Shown For 'Johnny Guitar' |page=35 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7F0bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=a04EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7606,4122408&dq=william-joyce+actor&hl=en |date=July 31, 1959 |accessdate=September 4, 2011}}
{{cite book |first=David |last=Garfield |title=A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio |url=https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf |url-access=registration |year=1980 |publisher=MacMillan |location=New York City |isbn=0-02-542650-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf/page/278 278] |chapter=Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980}}
{{cite news |title=I Eat Your Skin (1964) |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/24047/I-Eat-Your-Skin/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612090218/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/24047/I-Eat-Your-Skin/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 12, 2010 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Cavett Binion |date=2010 |accessdate=September 4, 2011}}
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0431499|William Joyce}}
- {{IBDB name|89080|William Joyce}}
- {{IBDB name|95748|Bill Joyce}}
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Category:Male actors from Pennsylvania
Category:American male film actors
Category:20th-century American male actors
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