Billy Boyd (born 28 August 1968) is a Scottish actor and musician most widely known for playing the character Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Barret Bonden in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Boyd was born in Glasgow, Scotland to William and Mary Boyd, who died, a year apart, when Boyd was in his early teens. He was brought up, along with his elder sister, Margaret, by their...
As Theoden engages the Orcs on the plain, Pippen finds Gandalf in the city.
Pippen and Merry bump into Frodo and Sam, literally while the latter where st...
Pippin asks Merry if they should share the tobacco they've found with Treebe...
Treebeard, Merry and Pippin chat on their way to Treebeard's home.
The Hobbits are watching Saruman look out at the ruin of Isengard from his to...
Aragorn leads the Hobbits into the Wild. When they stop, he chides them. When...
The battle for Minus Tirith going badly, Pippen looks up at Gandalf.
Still short of understanding the position he's placed himself in by looking i...
As his son rides across the plain to what is almost certain death against the...
Pippin wants the Ents to see what Saruman has done to the forest. He makes so...
Merry and Gandalf mount their horses to begin their first day's journey.
Merry walks up to Pippen, who's mounted on his horse. Looking up to him, he h...
Merry and Pippen, also listening in on the council, come from there places to...
While Frodo and Sam follow Gollum to Morodor, and Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli and...
Treebeard steps on the Orch just before it runs Merry through the he picks up...
The battle being joined on the plains of Mordor, the fell beast of the Nazgul...
Sam wakes to find Merry, Pippen and Sam cooking over a fire. He puts it out w...
Elrond and the council agree to all who have stepped forward to see the Ring ...
Happy to see Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli ride up Merry bids them wel...
Gandalf stands looking off where in the distacnce he can see the glow from th...
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A criminally under-worshipped film from the 1980s, Lost in America exists both as a comedic cautionary tale for all those who seek to embrace their inner Thoreau and the notion that well-fed boredom can be toppled by a mindless divorce from the swaddle cloth of society. Co-written, directed and starring Albert Brooks, Lost in America [...]
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen some large sea changes on Mad Men, so many changes that we seemed due for a break. Last night’s episode, “The Crash” was a break in more ways than one and an unanticipated jaunt through the back alleys of show creator Matthew Weiner’s mind. The Stalker We’ve never [...]
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