Horace Stanley McCoy was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression.
15 Facts About Horace McCoy
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Horace McCoy was wounded and received the Croix de Guerre for heroism from the government of France.
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Horace McCoy performed as an actor with the Dallas Little Theater.
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Horace McCoy had a prominent role in Philip Barry's The Youngest.
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Horace McCoy described the acting experience in a Dallas Morning News piece.
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Horace McCoy's acting was good enough for him to be cast in the leads in Molnar's Liliom, and Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted.
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Horace McCoy appeared in a short, "The Hollywood Handicap", then moved on to screenwriting.
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In 1948, Horace McCoy published the hard-boiled classic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.
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In Hollywood, Horace McCoy wrote westerns, crime melodramas, and other films for various studios.
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Horace McCoy worked with such movie directors as Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh, and Nicholas Ray.
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Horace McCoy was an uncredited script assistant for King Kong.
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The film Bad for Each Other, for which Horace McCoy received co-screenwriting credit, was based on his novel Scalpel which was uncredited.
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Horace McCoy was recognized for the story, in the closing credits, of the Samantha Crawford character debut in the Maverick television series titled "According to Hoyle" starring James Garner, Diane Brewster and Leo Gordon.
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Horace McCoy was married to Helen Vinmont McCoy, with whom he had two sons, Horace Stanley McCoy II and Peter McCoy; and a daughter, Amanda McCoy.
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Horace McCoy died in Beverly Hills, California of a heart attack.