Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy was an American actor, military officer, and expert on American Indian life.
30 Facts About Tim McCoy
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Tim McCoy was born in Saginaw, Michigan on April 10,1891.
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Tim McCoy's father was an Irish Union Civil War veteran and Police Chief.
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Tim McCoy ended up in Lander, Wyoming where he worked as a ranch hand.
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Tim McCoy was a renowned expert in Indian sign language and was named "High Eagle" by the Arapaho tribe of the Wind River reservation.
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Tim McCoy served again in World War II in Europe, rising to the rank of colonel with the Army Air Corps and Army Air Forces.
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Tim McCoy served as adjutant general of Wyoming between the wars with the brevet rank of brigadier general.
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Tim McCoy brought hundreds of Indians to the Utah location and served as technical advisor on the film.
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Tim McCoy's stage show was popular, running eight months in Hollywood and several more months in London and Paris.
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Tim 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 Tim McCoy rose to stardom.
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Later, in 1932, Tim McCoy starred in Two Fisted Law with John Wayne and Walter Brennan.
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Tim 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.
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Tim McCoy was available for pictures again in 1938, and low-budget producers engaged him at his standard salary of $4,000 weekly, for eight films a year.
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The eight films, released by Monogram Pictures, were very popular, and might have continued but Tim McCoy declined to renew his contract, opting to pursue other interests.
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In 1942, Tim McCoy ran for the Republican nomination for the open US Senate Seat from Wyoming.
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Tim McCoy lost in the primary and within 48 hours volunteered for active duty with the US Army.
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Tim McCoy had maintained his Army Reserve commission and was immediately accepted.
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Tim McCoy spent the war in the US Army and performed liaison work with the Army Air Forces in Europe, winning several decorations.
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Tim McCoy retired from the army, and reportedly never lived in Wyoming again.
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Tim McCoy retired from films after the war, except for a few cameo appearances much later.
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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.
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Tim McCoy's co-host was the actor Iron Eyes Cody who, while of Italian lineage, played an American Indian both on and off screen.
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Tim McCoy won a local Emmy but didn't attend to receive the award.
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Tim McCoy was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1974.
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On January 16,2010, Tim McCoy was inducted into the Hot Springs County Hall of Fame.
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Tim McCoy married Agnes Miller, the daughter of stage actor and producer Henry Miller and actress Bijou Heron.
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Agnes Tim McCoy was rewarded with that portion known as the Eagles Nest.
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Tim McCoy was married to Arvad until her death from cancer in 1973.
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Tim McCoy was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Tim McCoy was cremated and his ashes returned to his Nogales home.