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On December 23, 1963, Stephen Boyd became a naturalized U.S. citizen during a ceremony at the Federal Building in Los Angeles, California.<ref>Los Angeles Times, Dec 25, 1963</ref>
Stephen Boyd was originally cast as the lead in Anthony Mann's WWII drama "The Unknown Battle", which was set to film in early 1964 with co-stars [[Elke Sommer]] and [[Anthony Perkins]] in Norway. After several weeks of waiting, studio funding for the project fell though.<ref>Asbury Park Press, July 2, 1964</ref> Boyd sued Mann for $500,000 for a breach of contract, missed time and other lost film opportunities. <ref>Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 1964</ref> The project was finally completed by Mann a year later and released as [[Heroes of Telemark]] with [[Kirk Douglas]] replacing Boyd as the lead. <ref>Looking at Hollywood: Steve Boyd Is Back After Stint Abroad Hopper, Hedda. Chicago Tribune (1963–Current file) [Chicago, Ill] 29 Dec 1964: b11.</ref>
Throughout 1964 Boyd continued to make films in Europe, traveling to [[Yugoslavia]] to star as the villain Jamuga in the epic ''[[Genghis Khan (1965 film)|Genghis Khan]]''. Boyd was the top billed and therefore the top paid star in the epic, and this apparently caused friction with up-and-coming star [[Omar Sharif]].<ref>''Miami News'' 25 June 1965, "More Dramatics than Spectacle in Genghis Khan"</ref> After completing ''Genghis Khan'', Boyd trekked to Cairo, Egypt for Boyd trekked to Cairo for a brief appearance as the regal King [[Nimrod]] in [[John Huston]]'s production of ''[[The Bible: In the Beginning...|The Bible]]''.<ref>''Chicago Tribune'', 29 December 1964, "Steve Boyd Is Back After Stint Abroad"</ref> ▼
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After all this globe-trotting, the world weary Boyd was very happy to return to the United States to start work on the Twentieth Century Fox science fiction adventure ''[[Fantastic Voyage]]'', co-starring with soon-to-be icon [[Raquel Welch]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1774&dat=19650318&id=3uQhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oWUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2656,4646021&hl=en |title=Movie Actor Seeks Hollywood Home |agency=UPI |location=Hollywood |work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |date=18 March 1965 |accessdate=29 December 2015}}</ref> This was filmed in the early part of 1965. In the summer of 1965, Boyd joined German star [[Elke Sommer]] and music legend [[Tony Bennett]] to film the Hollywood drama ''[[The Oscar (film)|The Oscar]]'', based on the eponymous [[Richard Sale (director)|Richard Sale]] novel. The movie was a popular success, but maligned by film critics.<ref>''The Daily Times News'', Burlington North Carolina, 1 August 1966, "Movie Argument Continues"</ref> Boyd would make a 10-day visit to [[Iran]] in December 1965 to film his scenes for the [[United Nations]] film project ''[[The Poppy Is Also a Flower]]'',<ref>(Hedda Hopper, Chicago Tribune, December 31, 1965</ref> written by [[James Bond]] creator [[Ian Fleming]].
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