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TIM MCCOY MOVIES
1. TEXAS
WILDCATS
2. BLACK
MOUNTAIN STAGE
3. THE LION'S
DEN
4. THE TRAITOR
5. LIGHTING BILL
CARSON RIDES AGAIN
6. TWO FISTED
LAW
7. LIGHTING BILL
CARSON
8. TEXAS CYCLONE
9. ACES AND
EIGHTS
10. WEST OF
RAINBOW'S END
11. BORDER
CABALLERO
12. ROARING GUNS
13. BULLDOG
COURAGE
14. CODE OF THE
CATCUS
15. THE FIGHTING
RENEGADE
16. THE STRAIGHT
SHOOTER
17. TEXAS
MARSHALL
18. CODE OF THE
RANGERS
19. THE FIGHTING
MARSHALL
20. TV SHOWS OF
TIM MCCOY
21. THE PHANTOM
RANGER
22. ARIZONA GANG
BUSTERS
23. CORNERED
24. END OF THE
TRAIL
25. SIX GUN
TRAIL
26. MAN FROM
GUNTOWN
27. OUTLAW
DEPUTY
28. TEXAS
RENEGADE
29. GHOST PATROL
30. THE
WHIRLWIND
31. VOICE IN THE
NIGHT
32. POLICE CAR
17
33. TRIGGER
FINGERS
34. OUTLAWS
PARADISE
35. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 1- Pals in Buckskin
36. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 2- Call to Arms
37. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 3- Furnace of Fear
38. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 4- The Red Terror
39. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 5- The Circle of Death
40. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 6- Hate's Harvest
41. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 7- Hostages of Fear
42. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 8- The Dagger Duel
43. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 9- The Blast of Death
44. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 10- Redskin's Vengeance
45. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 11- Frontier's Aflame
46. THE INDIANS
ARE COMING, CHAPTER 12- The Trail's End
47. A MAN'S GAME
48. HOLD THE
PRESS
49. FRONTIER
CRUSADER
50. GUN CODE
Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy (April 10, 1891 – January 29, 1978) was an American actor, military officer, and expert on American Indian life and customs. McCoy is most noted for his roles in B-grade Western films. As a popular cowboy film star, he appeared on the front of a Wheaties cereal box.
Early
years
Tim McCoy was
born in Saginaw, Michigan on April 10, 1891. His father
was an Irish Union Civil War veteran and Police Chief.
While attending St. Ignatius College (now Loyola
University) McCoy saw a Wild West show that influenced him
to purchase a one-way ticket west. He ended up in Lander,
Wyoming where he worked as a ranch hand. While there, he
became an expert horseman and roper while developing an
extensive knowledge of the customs and languages of the
local American Indian tribes. McCoy was a renowned expert
in Indian sign language and was named "High Eagle" by the
Arapaho tribe of the Wind River reservation. He competed
in numerous rodeos and then enlisted in the United States
Army when America entered World War I.
Military
career
McCoy enlisted as a soldier in the United States
Army and served in the cavalry during World War I
(although he did not serve in combat nor overseas). He
served again in World War II in Europe, rising to the rank
of colonel with the Army Air Corps and Army Air Forces. He
also served as adjutant general of Wyoming between the
wars with the brevet rank of brigadier general. At 28, he
was one of the youngest brigadier generals in the history
of the U.S. Army.
Acting career
Early career
In 1922, David
Townsend, president of the Mountain Plains Enterprise Film
Company, planned to build "Sunshine Studios" at McCoy's
Owl Creek Dude ranch in order to shoot a film titled, "The
Dude Wrangler," written by Caroline Lockhart but the
project was abandoned.
That same year, he was asked
by the head of Famous Players-Lasky, Jesse L. Lasky, to
provide American Indian extras for the Western
extravaganza, The Covered Wagon (1923). He brought
hundreds of Indians to the Utah location and served as
technical advisor on the film. After filming was
completed, McCoy was asked to bring a much smaller group
of Indians to Hollywood, for a stage presentation
preceding each showing of the film.
McCoy's stage
show was popular, running eight months in Hollywood and
several more months in London and Paris. McCoy returned to
his Wyoming ranch, but Irving Thalberg of MGM soon signed
him to a contract to star in a series of outdoor
adventures and McCoy rose to stardom. His first MGM
feature was War Paint (1926), featuring epic scenes of the
Wind River Indians on horseback, staged by McCoy and
director Woody Van Dyke. (Footage from War Paint was
reused in many low-budget westerns, well into the 1950s.)
War Paint set the tone for future McCoy westerns, in
that Indians were always portrayed sympathetically, and
never as bloodthirsty savages. One notable McCoy feature
for MGM was The Law of the Range (1928), in which he
starred with Joan Crawford.
TALKING PICTURES
The coming of talking pictures, and the
temporary inability to record sound outdoors, resulted in
MGM terminating its Tim McCoy series and McCoy returning
once more to his ranch. In 1929 he was summoned back to
Hollywood personally by Carl Laemmle of Universal
Pictures, who insisted that McCoy star in the first
talking western serial, The Indians Are Coming. The serial
was very successful. Later, in 1932, McCoy starred in Two
Fisted Law with John Wayne and Walter Brennan.
McCoy worked steadily in movies until 1936, when he left
Hollywood, first to tour with the Ringling Brothers Circus
and then with his own "wild west" show. The show was not a
success; it was reported to have lost $300,000, $100,000
of which was McCoy's own money. It folded in Washington,
D.C., and the cowboy performers were each given $5 and
McCoy's thanks. The Indians on the show were returned to
their respective reservations by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
McCoy was available for pictures again in
1938, and low-budget producers (including Maurice Conn and
Sam Katzman) engaged him at his standard salary of $4,000
weekly, for eight films a year. In 1941 Buck Jones
recruited McCoy to co-star in "The Rough Riders" series,
alongside Jones and Raymond Hatton. The eight films,
released by Monogram Pictures, were very popular, and
might have continued but McCoy declined to renew his
contract, opting to pursue other interests.
Interrupted by World War II
In 1942, McCoy ran for the
Republican nomination for the open U.S. Senate Seat from
Wyoming. During that campaign, he established the first
statewide radio hookup in Wyoming broadcasting history. He
lost in the primary and within 48 hours volunteered for
active duty with the U.S. Army.
He had maintained
his Army Reserve commission and was immediately accepted.
McCoy spent the war in the U.S. Army and performed liaison
work with the Army Air Forces in Europe, winning several
decorations. He retired from the army, and reportedly
never lived in Wyoming again. His Eagle's Nest ranch was
sold. He retired from films after the war, except for a
few cameo appearances much later.
Television host
McCoy hosted a KTLA television show in Los Angeles in
1952, titled The Tim McCoy Show, for children on weekday
afternoons and Saturdays, in which he provided authentic
history lessons on the Old West and showed his old western
movies. His co-host was the actor Iron Eyes Cody who,
while of Italian lineage, played an American Indian both
on and off screen. McCoy won a local Emmy but didn't
attend to receive the award. He was competing against
Webster Webfoot in the Best Children's Show category and
refused to show up, saying "I'll be damned if I'm going to
sit there and get beaten by a talking duck!"
Legacy
For his contribution to the film industry, McCoy was
honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In
1973, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Western
Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage
Museum. He was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in
1974.
On January 16, 2010, McCoy was inducted into
the Hot Springs County (Wyoming) Hall of Fame. Accepting
the honor on his behalf was his son, Terry. Included in
the 2010 class were Governor Dave Freudenthal of the State
of Wyoming, Chief Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court
Bart Voigt, former Wyoming state treasurer Stan Smith, and
local high school teacher Karl Allen.
Personal life
McCoy married Agnes Miller, the daughter of stage actor
and producer Henry Miller and actress Bijou Heron. Their
marriage resulted in three children: son Gerald, daughter
Margarita, and son D'Arcy. They were divorced in 1931, and
McCoy kept a portion of the ranch holdings in Hot Springs
County, Wyoming. Agnes McCoy was rewarded with that
portion known as the Eagles Nest.
His second
marriage was to Inga Arvad in 1947. They had two sons,
Ronnie and Terry. McCoy was married to Arvad until her
death from cancer in 1973. Arvad was a journalist from
Denmark, investigated by the FBI in the early 1940s due to
rumors that she was a Nazi spy; there were photographs of
Arvad as a guest of Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Olympics, and
she had twice interviewed him. This investigation included
the wiretapping of Arvad during the time of an affair with
John F. Kennedy in late 1941 into 1942. No evidence
against Arvad was ever found.
Later years
In
1973, McCoy was inducted into the Western Performers Hall
of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He also was awarded a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1976, he was interviewed at
length by author James Horwitz for the cowboy memoir They
Went Thataway. McCoy's final, posthumous, appearance was
in Hollywood (1980), Kevin Brownlow-David Gill's
television history of silent films.
McCoy died on
January 29, 1978, at the Raymond W. Bliss Army Medical
Center of Ft. Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona. He was
cremated and his ashes returned to his Nogales home. Nine
years later his remains, and those of his wife, Inga, who
had died in 1973, were returned to his birthplace at
Saginaw, Michigan for burial in the Mount Olivet Cemetery
next to his family's plot.
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