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Born in Indianapolis Indiana, USA
Education: Shortridge High School, Indianapolis
Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington
The American Academy of Dramatic Arts - New York
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama - London
Private music composition studies with George Tremblay, Los Angeles
Employment: Program Supervisor, WTTV television, Indianapolis
Story analyst, Paramount Studios, Hollywood
Story analyst for the Westinghouse Playhouse TV drama series, Desilu Studios, Hollywood
Co-Proprietor (with Sally Boyd), The Chelsea House restaurant, Westwood Village, Los Angeles
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Chelsea House restaurant, Westwood Village, Los Angeles, 1960-1962
Advertising agencies (creative departments) in London: Charles Hobson & Grey (Greys), Leo Burnett, Ogilvy & Mather, BBDO
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Singer/comedian HARRY SECOMBE in a musical TV commercial for GPO telephones (now British Telecom), with words and music by Tom Boyd for BBDO.
The Two Ronnies
Comic actor RONNIE BARKER in another commercial for GPO telephones ( British Telecom), written for him by Tom Boyd.
Tom Boyd (as a nun) with comedian RONNIE CORBITT in a cinema commercial he wrote for the Milk Marketing Board 'drinka pinta milka day' campaign, for Ogilvy and Mather
Jazz singer ANNIE ROSS sings 3 of Tom Boyd's TV advertising jingles for Long Life Beer - King Krunch Chocolate Bar - Delight Margarine
Principal, All-in-English total immersion language school, Hampstead, London
Director, English Language Enterprises, producers of EFL material
Journalist - interviewer (click HERE for list) and international correspondent for Speak Up magazine (pub. Italy, Spain, France, former Yugoslavia & Brazil).
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Tom Boyd interviewing the former British Prime Minister, HAROLD WILSON, 1985 and (right) academy award-winning actor JEREMY IRONS 1986
Director, Englang Publishing, Poulton, Gloucestershire
Co-Director (with Sally Boyd) Poulton Productions
Below: Live shows in the Poulton village hall with local talent , produced and directed by Tom Boyd - PARTY PIECES 1995 (40 minutes) and THE POULTON MUSIC HALL 1996 (40 minutes)
Stage director/ librettist, Malvern Hills Opera
Co-Director (with William Bell), Bel Canto Opera
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Above: duet from THE ELIXIR OF LOVE by Donizetti - Words and direction by Tom Boyd
September 2005: The Cheltenham Arts Council awarded Tom Boyd the Opera Cup for innovation and interpretation of operas. Publications and/or original work produced: Theatre: Book, music & lyrics for stage musicals: Chalet and Heavens to Betsy (Indianapolis), Were From Missouri (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London), Tom Sawyer, (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London and touring), Incidental music for A Midsummer Nights Dream (Tower Theatre, Canonbury, London) Tom Sawyer 2010 revival (Poulton and Cirencester, Gloucestershire)
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UP FROM NEW ORLEANS from the 2010 revival production of Tom Boyd's musical, Tom Sawyer
Radio/Television: composer: Theme music for Four Faces of Christ (BBC TV) - writer: English Overheard (BBC World Service), Both Ends Meet /Dora (ITV comedy series starring Dora Bryan).![]()
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DORA BRYAN in Dinner at 8, one of the episodes from the weekly TV sit-com series DORA (previously BOTH ENDS MEET) written by Tom Boyd together with Stanley Segal and Jessica Taylor 1972. (right) Fanny Carby, Timothy Bateson, Ivor Dean and Dora.
Recording: writer/producer: The English Speaking World a 12 part cassette series with a cast that includes Alan Bates, Sinead and Sorcha Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Peter Barkworth, Gordon Jackson, and Keith Michel.
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The young JEREMY IRONS recording The English Speaking World, in Tom's recording studio in Hampstead, London, 1982
Books: author: Script and lyrics of the musical Tom Sawyer (2010) All in the Family (2009); A World in a Grain of Sand - Poulton, a Cotswold Village Revealed (1993 ; A Bowl of Cherries (1992); In Their Own Words (1988); America and Britain in Contrast (1985)
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Opera librettos (English versions) writer/director: Dr Miracle (Bizet) The Impresario (der Schauspieldirektor - Mozart), The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) Tosca (Puccini), Rigoletto (Verdi), Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck), Lakme (Delibes), Martha (Flotow), The Elixir of Love (Lelisir damore - Donizetti), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor - Nicolai), Don Pasquale (Donizetti) and The Magic Flute (die Zauberflöte - Mozart)
Doctor Miracle The Impresario The Tales of Hoffmann Tosca Rigoletto Hansel and Gretel Lakme The Elixir of Love The Merry Wives of Windsor Don Pasquale The Magic Flute All of Tom Boyd's English versions of the operas were performed between 1996 and 2007 by Bel Canto Opera in Gloucestershire, England*
* except The Tales of Hoffmann which was performed by Malvern Hills Opera at the Festival Theatre, Great Malvern
Tom Boyd's English version of MARTHA was performed by HADDO HOUSE OPERA, Aberdeen, Scotland in 2005Tom Boyd's English version of THE ELIXIR OF LOVE was performed by STANLEY OPERA, Concordia Theatre, Hinkley Leicestershire England in April, 2008
Tom Boyd's English version of TOSCA performed by HIGH DESERT OPERA, Colorado, USA, July, 2008, and by the INTIMATE OPERA COMPANY, Pasadena, California, USA April 2010
Tom Boyd's English version of RIGOLETTO was performed by STANLEY OPERA, Concordia Theatre, Hinkley, Leicestershire England in April, 2011
click here for Tom Boyd interview in the OXFORD TIMES Feb. 2007
click here for article about Tom Boyd in Poulton in the Wilts & Glos STANDARD 2005
click for Tom Boyd interview in the Gloucestershire ECHO 2002
and here for Tom Boyd profile in the Wilts & Glos STANDARD 1995
Personal Married to Sally Milford
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Children:
1 daughter: Polly, publishing editor (married to Mark Palmer, Product Development Manager, This England and Beautiful Britain magazines
1 son: Tim, (proprietor, NEW WAVE SEAFOODS (catering) and retail: NEW WAVE FISH SHOP, CIRENCESTER (married to Maisie Ingram)
Daughter Polly and son Tim
Grandchildren:


Son-in-law Mark Palmer and daughter-in-law Maisie Boyd née Ingram

The full Monty... Jessica, Tim, Hector, Sally, Polly, Mark, Tom, Bella, Maisie - December 2010
A fully functional family - all living in the Cotswolds Gloucestershire, England
Cheers!