1. Roy Barcroft was born to a farming family in Crab Orchard, Nebraska, in 1902.
10 Facts About Roy Barcroft
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Roy Barcroft was discovered while acting in an amateur theatre production, a hobby which he took up to improve his speaking voice as a salesman.
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Roy Barcroft worked for many different studios in the years that followed until 1943, when he signed an exclusive 10-year contract with Republic.
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Roy Barcroft's career slowed with the decline of B-Westerns, but he found work in television and B-movies during the 1950s and 1960s.
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From 1954 to 1956, Roy Barcroft appeared in different roles in eight episodes of the syndicated western series Annie Oakley.
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On May 23,1961, Roy Barcroft played Doc Longley in the episode "Badge of the Outsider" on the television western series Laramie, playing a retired outlaw framed for the murder of the deputy sheriff in Laramie.
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Roy Barcroft appeared in a 1961 episode, "Heat Wave," of the adventure drama series Straightaway.
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In marked contrast to his villainous movie persona, Roy Barcroft off-screen "had a reputation as one of the nicest guys in Hollywood," said Leonard Maltin in 2005.
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Roy Barcroft married Vera Thompson in 1932, and they had two children.
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Roy Barcroft died of kidney cancer at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in 1969.