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Guy Boyd

Miami Vice Character
Born
April 15, 1943 (age 81)
Illinois
Active
1977-present


Guy Boyd (born April 15, 1943, Illinois) is an American character actor who appeared as Frank Hackman, a killer James "Sonny" Crockett mistakenly got off Death Row, later paying for that error with his wife Caitlin Davies' life in the episodes "Forgive Us Our Debts" and "Deliver Us from Evil" in the series Miami Vice.

Career[]

Boyd began his long career in 1977, appearing in the movie Between The Lines (with John Heard and Joe Morton). Other movie appearances include Ghost Story (with Brad Sullivan and Jacqueline Brookes), Streamers (with Mitchell Lichtenstein), Tank, Flashpoint (with Miguel Ferrer), Body Double (with Al Israel and Melanie Griffith), War Party (with Kevyn Major Howard) and Jimmie Ray Weeks), Sister Act, Henry's Crime (with Bill Duke), While We're Young (with Ben Stiller), The Report (with Annette Bening), and his most recent movie appearance, in I'm Thinking of Ending Things (with Oliver Platt).

His TV career began with the miniseries The Best of Families, then appeared in Lou Grant (with Belinda Montgomery), Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, Remington Steele, Moonlighting (with Bruce Willis), Crime Story (with Dennis Farina, Bill Smitrovich, John Santucci, episode with Ismael "East" Carlo and Tom Signorelli), Knots Landing (with Larry Riley), Quantum Leap (with Dean Stockwell), Walker, Texas Ranger (episode with Ely Pouget), Black Scorpion (22 episodes and two TV movies), Law and Order, Law and Order: CI (with Vincent D'Onofrio), The Young Pope (with Tony Plana), Bones (with Boyd's son John), The Good Fight (with Evan Handler), The Loudest Voice (with John Finn), and his most recent TV appearance, The Girl from Plainville.

Boyd has two children, son John appeared in 24 as Arlo Glass, and daughter Pauline appeared in several minor movies and the soap Guiding Light.