Tim McCoy

Tim McCoy

Acting 1891-04-10 Saginaw, Michigan, USA

One of the great stars of early American Westerns. McCoy was the son of an Irish soldier who later became police chief of Saginaw, Michigan, where McCoy was born. He attended St. Ignatius College in Chicago and after seeing a Wild West show there, left school and found work on a Wyoming ranch. He became an expert horseman and roper and developed a keen knowledge of the ways and languages of the Indian tribes in the area. He competed in numerous rodeos, then enlisted in the U.S. Army when America entered the First World War. He was commissioned and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. At the end of World War I, he returned to his ranch in Wyoming, only to be called by Governor Bob Carry to the post of Adjutant General of Wyoming, a position he held until 1921. The position carried with it the rank of Brigadier General (a brevet promotion) and it has been reported that this made him the youngest general officer in the U.S. Army. His reputation as a friend to the Wind River Reservation Indians, both Arapahoe and Shoshone, preceded him and in 1922, he was asked by the head of Famous Players-Lasky, Jesse L. Lasky, to provide Indian extras for the Western extravaganza, The Covered Wagon (1923). He resigned from the state position and recruited several hundred Indians to the Utah movie location. When the film wrapped, he was asked to choose several Indians to accompany him to Hollywood. There the production company developed a live 'prologue' to be presented just prior to the movie showing. The idea was a success and McCoy and his Indian group toured the U.S. and eventually, Europe as well. After touring this country and Europe with the Indians as publicity, McCoy returned to Hollywood and used his connections to obtain further work in the movies, both as a technical advisor and eventually as an actor. MGM speedily signed him to a contract to star in a series of Westerns and McCoy rapidly rose to stardom, making scores of Westerns and occasional non-Westerns. He retired from the army and from films after the war, but emerged in the late 1940s for a few more films and some television work. In 1942 he ran for the Republican Nomination for the U.S. Senate in Wyoming. He was defeated and returned to Hollywood and an uncertain future. In 1946 he sold his Wyoming ranch and moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania and the life of the gentleman farmer. While living there, he met and married Danish writer Inga Arvad. He later built a home in Nogales, Arizona where Inga subsequently died in 1973. He spent his later years as a retired rancher. He died at the U.A. Army hospital at Ft. Hauchuca, Arizona on January 29 1978 at the age of 86. Inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1974. During World War I, he served as an artillery officer in the US Army in France. Spouse Inga Arvad (1945 - 1973) (her death) Alice Miller (? - 1931) (divorced) (3 children)

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1976 (archive footage)
1972 Self (archive footage)
1965 Judge Irving Short
1957 Gen. Allen (as Colonel Tim McCoy)
1956 Colonel
1946 Himself
1942 Marshal Tim McCall
1942 Marshal Tim McCall
1942 Marshal Tim McCall
1942 U. S. Marshal Tim McCall
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1942 Marshal Tim McCall
1941 Marshal Tim McCall
1941 Tim McCall
1941 Marshal Tim McCall
1941 Marshal Trigger Tim Rand
1941 Tim Barton
1940 Trigger Tim Rand
1940 Marshal Tim Donovan
1940 Marshal Tim Hammond posing as Tim Hays
1940 Trigger Tim Rand
1940 'Silent' Tim Smith
1939 "Lightning" Bill Carson
1939 William Carson / Trigger Mallory
1939 Bill Carson
1939 'Lightning' Bill Carson
1939 Bill Carson posing as El Puma
1939 'Lightning' Bill Carson
1938 Tim Hart
1938 Tim Hayes
1938 Captain William Carson
1938 Lightning Bill Carson / Jose
1938 Tim Strong
1938 Tim
1936 Tim Madigan
1936 Tim Corwin
1936 Tim Caverly
1936 Marshal Lightnin' Bill Carson
1936 Tim Ross
1936 Tim McCoy: Sergeant Tim Vallance - Texas Ranger
1936 Tim Barton
1935 Slim Braddock / Tim Braddock
1935 Tim Hanlon
1935 Tim Mallory
1935 Tim Condon
1935 Constable Tim O'Hara
1935 Tim Baxter
1935 Tim O'Neil
1935 Tim McDonald
1935 Tim Malloy / Tex Ravelle
1934 Tim Dale
1934 Police Captain Tim Daley
1934 Tim
1934 Tim Bradley
1934 Tim Hamlin
1934 Tim Weston
1934 Tim Addison
1933 Tim Dawson
1933 Tim Collins
1933 Tim Reynolds
1933 Tim Richards
1933 Tim Burke
1933 Ranger Tim Barlow
1933 Tim Conlon
1932 Tim Clark
1932 Texas Grant
1932 Self
1932 Tim Barrett
1932 Sheriff Tim Laramie
1932 Tim Torrant
1932 Captain Tim Travers
1932 Tim Keene
1932 Tim Madigan
1932 Sheriff Tim Collins
1931 Tim Benton
1931 Tim Allen
1931 Tim Walker
1930 Jack Manning
1929 Flood
1929 Captain Allen
1929 Jed Tyler
1929 Capt. Daniel Clairbourne
1928 Jim Lockhart
1928 Jim McClellan
1928 The Masked Stranger
1928 Edward
1928 Lt. Crane
1928 Lt. Jack Colton
1927 Col. Sir Dennis O'Hara
1927 Capt. Robert Kelly
1927 John Dale
1927 Lieutenant Lang
1927 Capt. Archibald Gillespie
1926 Lt. Tim Marshall
1925 Burn Hudnall
1925 Production Coordinator
1925 Technical Advisor
1923 Technical Advisor