Boyd Marshall (June 22, 1884 – November 10, 1950) was an American actor of the stage and screen during the early decades of the 20th century.

[2][3] In 1905 Marshall appeared in the play Fantana, a musical at the Lyric Theatre in New York, which starred Douglas Fairbanks.

[4][5] In 1908 and 1909 Marshall appeared in Jesse Lasky's production of A Night on a Houseboat at the Orpheum Theater in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

[16] In 1911 and 1912 Marshall toured the country with a group of performers around the vaudeville circuit, in an act titled The Pianophiend Minstral Co. A Jesse Lasky production, the group performed throughout the United States at such venues as the Academy of Music in Washington, D.C., and the Orpheum Theater in Oakland, California.

[17][18][19] The Pianophiends were selected to perform at a gala honoring William Randolph Hearst in San Francisco in August 1911.

[23] In 1913 Marshall signed with the Thanhouser Company, one of the first film studios, where he was billed as the "handsomest man in the movies".

[26] After leaving film, Marshall returned to the stage, which included performances in a string of mostly successful Broadway shows between 1918 and 1930.

[29][30][31] In 1932, he would appear as a co-star alongside Katharine Hepburn in The Bride the Sun Shines On at the Croton River Playhouse, in Harmon-on-Hudson (now Croton-on-Hudson), New York.