Personal Info
Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy
Tim McCoy
Acting
Biography
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…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
Requiem for a Gunfighter
as Judge Irving Short
Run of the Arrow
as Gen. Allen (as Colonel Tim McCoy)
Around the World in 80 Days
as Colonel
Injun Talk
as Himself
Riders of the West
as Marshal Tim McCall
West of the Law
as Marshal Tim McCall
Below the Border
as Marshal Tim McCall
Ghost Town Law
as Marshal Tim McCall