Personal Life
In addition to French and English, Boyer spoke Italian, German, and Spanish.
His only marriage was to British actress Pat Paterson, whom he met at a dinner party in 1934. The two became engaged after two weeks of courtship and were married three months later. Later, they would move from Hollywood to Paradise Valley, Arizona. The marriage lasted 44 years. Boyer became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1942.
Boyer's only child, Michael Charles Boyer (10 December 1944 – 10 December 1964), committed suicide, aged 20, playing Russian roulette after separating from his girlfriend.
On 26 August 1978, two days after his wife's death from cancer, and two days before his own 79th birthday, Boyer committed suicide with an overdose of Seconal while at a friend's home in Scottsdale. He was taken to the hospital in Phoenix, where he died. He was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, alongside his wife and son.
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