Boyd Stockman

Boyd Stockman

Born: February 12, 1916
Died: March 10, 1998
in Grants, New Mexico, USA
Stuntman and actor Boyd Stockman was born on February 12, 1916 in Grants, New Mexico. Boyd moved to California in the early 1940's where he and his brother worked for the Bakersfield Land and Cattle Company. Stockman began his film business career doing stunts at Monogram Pictures in the mid-1940's after he was spotted roping cattle at the L.A. Coliseum Rodeo by fellow stuntmen Joe Yrigoyen and Andy Jauregui, who suggested to Stockman that he try his hand in the movies. An expert horseman and team driver, Boyd was usually cast in Westerns as a stagecoach driver. Moreover, Stockman was also a regular in Gene Autry Western programmers made by Columbia. His career as both an actor and stuntman in Westerns spanned over three decades altogether. Boyd returned to his native state of New Mexico in the mid-1970's. Stockman died at age 82 on March 10, 1998 in Silver City, New Mexico.

Movies for Boyd Stockman...

The Shakiest Gun in the West
Title: The Shakiest Gun in the West
Character: Stage Driver (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1968
Type: Movie
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".
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They Ran for Their Lives
Title: They Ran for Their Lives
Character: Hotel Clerk (as Boyde Stockman)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A man with a dog helps a young woman being chased by hoodlums in the desert.
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The Gambler Wore a Gun
Title: The Gambler Wore a Gun
Character: Dave
Released: May 4, 1961
Type: Movie
The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.
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The Alligator People
Title: The Alligator People
Character: Alligator-headed Paul
Released: July 16, 1959
Type: Movie
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
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Lone Texan
Title: Lone Texan
Character: Indian (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1959
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, a Texan who served in the Union army comes back home to find himself ostracized by his neighbors for having fought against the Confederacy. On top of that, he finds that his younger brother is now the sheriff, and is ruling the town with an iron hand.
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The Hanging Tree
Title: The Hanging Tree
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1959
Type: Movie
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as town doctor. He meets Elizabeth, who is suffering from shock, and the two soon fall in love. But when Elizabeth is attacked, Frail's attempt to help her lands them both in trouble.
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Ride Lonesome
Title: Ride Lonesome
Character: Indian chief (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1959
Type: Movie
On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer's brother and his men in hot pursuit.
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Frontier Gun
Title: Frontier Gun
Character: Marshal Swain (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1958
Type: Movie
Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.
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3:10 to Yuma
Title: 3:10 to Yuma
Character: Bill Moons (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
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Night Passage
Title: Night Passage
Character: Torgenson
Released: July 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
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Apache Warrior
Title: Apache Warrior
Character: Trooper (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An Apache brave vows revenge when he feels betrayed by the U.S. Army.
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Title: Wells Fargo
Character: The Driver
Released: March 18, 1957
Type: TV
Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.
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The Man from Laramie
Title: The Man from Laramie
Character: Spud Oxton
Released: August 19, 1955
Type: Movie
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hide.
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Wyoming Renegades
Title: Wyoming Renegades
Character: Tom McCarthy
Released: March 27, 1954
Type: Movie
Brady Sutton returns from three years in prison and tries to go straight. One a member of the Butch Cassidy gang, he is still suspected of being cahoots with them. When Cassidy and his men rob the bank, he is blamed. Escaping from the townspeople, he once again joins up with Cassidy to wait for a chance to help bring him in.
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Gun Belt
Title: Gun Belt
Character: Turkey Creek
Released: July 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother Matt, father of Chip, the nephew Ringo is trying to keep on the straight and narrow, with three other outlaws, Dixon, Hollaway and Hoke, frame Ringo into pulling a bank robbery with them. Pretending to side with them, after accidentally killing Matt, Ringo informs Marshal Wyatt Earp of their plan to rob a Wells Fargo express wagon. A gunfight ensues at the robbery and the three outlaws are killed and Ike Clinton, the ringleader, is turned over to Marshal Earp by Ringo. Written by Les Adams
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Desperadoes' Outpost
Title: Desperadoes' Outpost
Character: Henchman Tom (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Nugget Clark has been having his stagecoaches wrecked and Marshal Rocky Lane arrives to investigate. The foreman of a nearby mine is stealing part of the mecury output and selling it in Mexico. Nugget's house has a direct pipeline from the mine and they are trying to drive him into bankruptcy to obtain his ranch. Rocky is quickly aware that the Foremen is behind Nugget's holdups but they are also onto Rocky when he accidently drops his badge during a fight.
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Night Raiders
Title: Night Raiders
Character: Henchman Al
Released: February 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Whip arrives to investigate why night raiders are ransacking cabins but taking nothing....
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Stage to Blue River
Title: Stage to Blue River
Character: Henchman
Released: December 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Whip Wilson has to stop bandits who are trying to take over a stage line.
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Gene Autry and the Mounties
Title: Gene Autry and the Mounties
Character: McCloud (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Montana Marshals Gene and Scat are tracking some bank robbers. When the baddies cross into Canada, the Mounties are called upon to help.
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Streets of Ghost Town
Title: Streets of Ghost Town
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
The Durango Kid and his sidekick look for stolen gold with a history.
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Radar Secret Service
Title: Radar Secret Service
Character: Joe #1 (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1950
Type: Movie
A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.
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Brand of Fear
Title: Brand of Fear
Character: Jed Mailor
Released: July 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Jimmy and Cannonball escort Anne Lamont, the new school teacher, to Oreville, where she is molested by two outlaws. Marshal Blackjack Flint wounds Slade, who tells Derringer that lawman Flint is wanted by the law and, unknown to Anne, is also her father. Derringer than kills Slade and begins to blackmail Flint. Jimmy and Cannonball join the fray on the side of Flint, the reformed outlaw.
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West of El Dorado
Title: West of El Dorado
Character: Joe
Released: June 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Johnny and Alibi try to straighten out a hostile young boy whose older brother was a notorious stagecoach bandit. When a gang of thieves try to strong-arm the kid into revealing the whereabouts of the stolen loot, Johnny and Alibi come to the rescue. There's a cursory romantic subplot involving heroine Mary and Barstow.
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Trails End
Title: Trails End
Character: Henchman
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Cowhand Drake discovers gold on the ranch of his boss, Joe Stuart and makes a deal with crooked lawyer Mel Porter to induce Stuart to sell. The latter refuses, and also orders Bill Cameron not to see his daughter Laurie again. Foreman Johnny Mack, after intervening, quits after he sees Stuart hit Laurie while quarreling over her proposed marriage to Cameron. Peddler Alibi Terhune witnesses the killing of Stuart by Clem Kettering, hired by Porter, and is taken prisoner. Cameron is blamed for Stuart's killing, escapes jail, but is persuaded by Johnny to go back and stand trial. Johnny rescues Alibi and the two work together on clearing Cameron's name, and bringing the real culprits to justice.
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Hidden Danger
Title: Hidden Danger
Character: Henchman Luke Henderson
Released: December 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Johnny and Banty come in contact with a cattlemen's protective organization. Ostensibly an honest venture, the association is the front for an extortion racket, headed by a gent named Carson.
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Gunning for Justice
Title: Gunning for Justice
Character: Smoky - Henchman
Released: November 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Three fellows band together to help a woman find her uncle's cache of gold in this western. All they have to help them is a tattered map that her uncle, a prisoner of war, created in camp. Unfortunately two badguys have the map and try to turn the three goodguys against the niece. They do not succeed and justice prevails.
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Outlaw Brand
Title: Outlaw Brand
Character: Ed Parker
Released: October 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Jimmy and his pal Cannonball are hired by a rancher and horse breeder to capture Midnight, a wild stallion that has been interfering with local herds and has a reputation as a killer.
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The Rangers Ride
Title: The Rangers Ride
Character: State Policeman
Released: April 25, 1948
Type: Movie
After the Texas Rangers are disbanded, the the reconstruction years following the Civil War, a private state-police force extorts money from the citizens in a "protection" scheme. Ex-Rangers Jimmy Wakely and "Cannonball" Taylor foil an arrest by state-police officers Hamon and Kelly. Commissioner Jed Brant tells his nephew that his old friend Jimmy is plotting against the law-and-order forces. Vic's fiancée and ranch-owner, Sheila Carol, refuses to sign up with the crooked police outfit, and believes Jimmy is an outlaw. On Chief Barton's order, Hamon shoots ex-Rangers Murphy and Payson, so they can be blamed for a raid on Sheila's ranch.
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Crossed Trails
Title: Crossed Trails
Character: Henchman Maypole (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1948
Type: Movie
A cowboy frees a rancher framed for murder by outlaws after his ranch.
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Overland Trails
Title: Overland Trails
Character: Joe - Henchman
Released: January 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown stars in this above-average B-Western from Monogram, penned under the pseudonym of Jess Bowers by veteran genre specialist Adele Buffington. Mack Brown plays Johnny Murdoch, a drifter arriving in Gold Flats in search of his prospector father. From old-timer Dusty Hanover (Raymond Hatton), Johnny learns that Old Man Murdoch was murdered for his claim by Rex Hillman (Holly Bane), a hireling of Carter Morgan (Bill Kennedy).
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Gun Talk
Title: Gun Talk
Character: Red Diggs - Henchman
Released: December 20, 1947
Type: Movie
In this western, a hero prevents a stagecoach robbery and wins the respect and confidence of a mine owner and a pretty woman who is going west to see her sister. Two outlaws next try to jump the miner's claim.
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Prairie Express
Title: Prairie Express
Character: Perry
Released: October 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown comes to the aid of a beleaguered female freight line operator in this standard Monogram oater directed by veteran Lambert Hillyer. Having saved his old friend Faro Jenkins and young Dave Porter from marauding outlaws, Ranger Johnny Hudson learns that the attack may be part of a concerted effort by bandits to drive Dave's sister Peggy out of the freight business. Unbeknownst to Johnny and the Porters, the crimes are committed on behalf of local banker Gordon Gregg who wants to bankrupt the freight business in order to take over the valuable Porter ranch.
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Badman's Territory
Title: Badman's Territory
Character: William McElheney (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.