Tim McCoy

Tim McCoy

Born: April 10, 1891
Died: January 29, 1978
in 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)

Movies for Tim McCoy...

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Title: Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 10, 1972
Type: Movie
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
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Requiem for a Gunfighter
Title: Requiem for a Gunfighter
Character: Judge Irving Short
Released: June 30, 1965
Type: Movie
A gunfighter takes the identity of a murdered judge in order to avenge his death.
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Run of the Arrow
Title: Run of the Arrow
Character: Gen. Allen (as Colonel Tim McCoy)
Released: September 5, 1957
Type: Movie
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Colonel
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Injun Talk
Title: Injun Talk
Character: Himself
Released: September 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Interpreted by Col. Tim McCoy. Talks about Indian Sign Language. A chief signs a story and a white soldier interprets.
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West of the Law
Title: West of the Law
Character: Marshal Tim McCall
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders arrive to fight Rand, Ludlow and their gang. Buck poses as a preacher, Tim as a preacher, and Sandy as an undertaker. Buck not only wants the outlaws, but also their unknown boss.
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Riders of the West
Title: Riders of the West
Character: Marshal Tim McCall
Released: August 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rustling in the area. Town banker Miller, saloon-owner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt, but they double-cross and kill him. His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff. Buck arrives and arrests Steve. Marshal Tim McCall, posing as an outlaw, gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape, with Buck's knowledge, of Steve from the jail. Sandy Hopkins, the third Marshal of the trio, poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him. Red, a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang, overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a U.S. Marshal, and he has Miller and Mason informed. Written by Les Adams
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Down Texas Way
Title: Down Texas Way
Character: U. S. Marshal Tim McCall
Released: May 22, 1942
Type: Movie
"The Rough Riders", has U. S. Marshals Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) and Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) coming to a Texas town to visit their friend, U. S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton), only to learn that he has disappeared, and is suspected of the murder of John Dodge (Jack Daley), owner of practically the whole town, except the hotel Sandy owns and runs when he isn't on an assignment as a Marshal. The murder has been committed by the henchmen of Bart Logan (Harry Woods), who intends to take over the dead man's property and whose men are holding Sandy prisoner to make it appear that he fled after arguing with and killing Dodge. Just before the murder, Logan sent a letter to Dodge with the news that the latter's long-missing wife is returning, and in a short while, Stella (Lois Austin), a Logan accomplice, arrives posing as the missing Ann Dodge, thus establishing her right to the Dodge property. Sandy, allowed to escape, returns ... Written by Les Adams
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Ghost Town Law
Title: Ghost Town Law
Character: Marshal Tim McCall
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
When two of their Marshal friends are killed, the Rough Riders are sent to investigate. They have to find the killers in a ghost town where the houses and an old mine are interconnected by secret passages and tunnels.
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Below the Border
Title: Below the Border
Character: Marshal Tim McCall
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Scully has forced Joe Collins who works on the Garcia ranch to give him information so his men can steal the family jewels. But the Rough Riders are on the job. Buck poses as a wanted outlaw to get into the gang, Tim as a cattle buyer, and Sandy is collecting information as the saloon janitor. As usual they pretend not to know each other. Written by Maurice Van Auken
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Forbidden Trails
Title: Forbidden Trails
Character: Marshal Tim McCall
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Two ex-cons plan to kill the range rider marshal who sent them to prison and, when their plan fails, join forces with their former boss, a crooked saloon owner who has the same idea.
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The Gunman From Bodie
Title: The Gunman From Bodie
Character: Marshal Tim McCall
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders are after a gang of rustlers. Marshal Roberts is posing as a wanted outlaw, McCall is the Marshal supposedly after him, and Sandy is on hand as a cook. Roberts hopes his joining the gang will help bring them in.
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Arizona Bound
Title: Arizona Bound
Character: Marshal Tim McCall / 'Parson' McCall
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders are called in to help save Master's stage line. Taggart has his gang robbing the stages and shooting the drivers. When Buck drives the next stage, Taggart's men rob it and then make it look like Roberts is part of the gang. Written by Maurice Van Auken
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The Texas Marshal
Title: The Texas Marshal
Character: Marshal Trigger Tim Rand
Released: July 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Local "patriot's league" leader secretly kills off ranchers, buys up their estates, which are undermined with tin ore; Marshal and singing cowpoke team up to find villain and motive.
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Outlaws of the Rio Grande
Title: Outlaws of the Rio Grande
Character: Marshal Tim Barton
Released: February 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Bob Day has been captured by Marlow's gang. When Tim Barton and sidekick Monte come looking for him, Tim is also captured. Escaping, Tim has a plan that will have the outlaws fighting among themselves.
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Riders of Black Mountain
Title: Riders of Black Mountain
Character: Marshal Tim Donovan
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Marshal Tim Donovan has been sent to investigate a series of holdups. Posing as a card sharp he soon believes he knows who is tipping off the outlaws. So he sets up a fake shipment knowing that if the stage is robbed the contact person will be identiifed. But the day the stage is due the Sheriff arrests the gang Tim was expecting to do the robbery.
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Arizona Gang Busters
Title: Arizona Gang Busters
Character: Trigger Tim Rand
Released: September 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Arizona Gang Busters is another pre-WWII saber-rattler that finds a band of renegade gunmen, under the pretense of developing an irrigation project for the reclamation of arid desert land, using airplanes and parachute jumpers to gather valuable military information for a European power.
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Gun Code
Title: Gun Code
Character: Marshal Tim Hammond posing as Tim Hays
Released: August 3, 1940
Type: Movie
This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide Open Spaces. Don't be fooled by the opening credits: the "Peter Stewart" listed as director Gun Code was actually PRC workhorse Sam Newfield.
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Frontier Crusader
Title: Frontier Crusader
Character: Trigger Tim Rand
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A marshal is sent to clean up a mining town being terrorized by an organized gang that is killing miners and stealing their claims.
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Texas Renegades
Title: Texas Renegades
Character: 'Silent' Tim Smith
Released: January 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Marshal Tim Smith is sent to Rawhide to battle rustlers. When the outlaw gang attempts to kill the new Marshal, they get the wrong man. Tim puts his identification on the dead man and poses as a known outlaw. This gets him into the gang where he is given the job of posing as the new Marshal.
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Trigger Fingers
Title: Trigger Fingers
Character: 'Lightning' Bill Carson
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Marshal and his men disguise themselves as gypsies to catch a gang of cattle thieves.
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The Fighting Renegade
Title: The Fighting Renegade
Character: Bill Carson posing as El Puma
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
El Puma, a Mexican desert guide, escorts an archaeological expedition headed by Professor Lucius Lloyd through the Indian badlands of Mexico. Marian, the professor's niece accompanies the party as only she can translate the Aztec writings in the diary of her father, murdered on a similar expedition six years previous. The professor is murdered by a knife, and the weapon is recognized as the property of El Puma. Magpie, a Federal Investigator, knows that El Puma is really "Lightnin' Bill' Carson, a former federal agent who has been missing since Marian's father was slain. The reluctant Magpie believes that his old pal is guilty. Carson sets out to prove otherwise.
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Straight Shooter
Title: Straight Shooter
Character: "Lightning" Bill Carson
Released: August 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Before he was killed, Martin hid a half million dollars worth of bonds on his ranch. Brainard, who killed him, Inspector Carson posing as Sam Brown, and Martin's niece Margaret all want the ranch, and it's being sold at auction.
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Outlaws' Paradise
Title: Outlaws' Paradise
Character: William Carson / Trigger Mallory
Released: April 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Bill Carson assumes the identity of gang leader Trigger Mallory in order to fool his gang and his girlfriend.
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Texas Wildcats
Title: Texas Wildcats
Character: 'Lightning' Bill Carson
Released: April 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Lightning Bill Carson and sidekick Magpie are after Burrows, the man that killed a friend of theirs. Burrows is after the Arden ranch and his gang are rustling their cattle. Bill is robbing Burrows while posing as the mysterious Phantom and it's not long before the two collide.
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Code of the Cactus
Title: Code of the Cactus
Character: Bill Carson
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A story of cattle rustling and double identities.
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Six-Gun Trail
Title: Six-Gun Trail
Character: Captain William Carson
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Chasing jewel thieves, Captain Carson and Magpie head for the border where Carson, posing as a Chinaman, opens a store that buys jewelry. To flush the thieves into the open, Carson wins all their money at poker. They agree to sell him the jewels but plan to kill him and keep both the jewels and the money.
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Lightning Carson Rides Again
Title: Lightning Carson Rides Again
Character: Lightning Bill Carson / Jose
Released: October 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Lightning Carson's nephew has been falsely accused of murder. To get in with the gang, Lightning poses as a Mexican. He also appears as himself making his costume changes at his sister's ranch. Just as he about to bring in the gang, a henchman finds evidence of his masquerade and arrives to expose the hoax.
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Phantom Ranger
Title: Phantom Ranger
Character: Tim Hayes
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
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Two Gun Justice
Title: Two Gun Justice
Character: Tim
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ranger Tim (Tim McCoy) is called out of retirement and assigned to clean up the gang. He disguises himself as a Mexican bandit, joins the gang and works from within.
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Code of the Rangers
Title: Code of the Rangers
Character: Tim Strong
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger is faced with the task of bringing his outlaw brother to justice.
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West of Rainbow's End
Title: West of Rainbow's End
Character: Tim Hart
Released: January 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Tim Hart (Tim McCoy), a former Texas Ranger, comes out of retirement to avenge the death of Lightnin' Ed (Frank LaRue), his foster father, who had been sent to Rainbow's End, to investigate a series of train robberies. He senses that George Johnson (Walter McGrail) and his henchman, Speck (Bob Kortman), head the robbery gang, especially after Speck makes an ambush attempt on his life.
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The Traitor
Title: The Traitor
Character: Tim McCoy: Sergeant Tim Vallance - Texas Ranger
Released: August 29, 1936
Type: Movie
To prevent a lynching, Ranger Tim lets two outlaws go saying he will get them later. This gets him kicked out of the Rangers and he goes across the border and joins Big George's gang who are running contraband. But the outlaw Jimmy overhears Tim tell his sister that the dismissal was a fake. Big George and his gang then go after Tim and trap him in a cabin.
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Ghost Patrol
Title: Ghost Patrol
Character: Tim Caverly
Released: August 2, 1936
Type: Movie
A Professor has an invention that will bring down planes causing them to crash and Dawson is forcing him to use it on those carrying money. When Tim arrives to investigate he is mistaken for a noted outlaw. So he assumes that identity to force Dawson to make him a partner. But just as a plane bringing Tim help is arriving, his true identity is revealed and while he is a prisoner, Dawson forces the Professor to start his machine.
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The Lion's Den
Title: The Lion's Den
Character: Tim Barton
Released: July 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Merwin hires Barton to fight Welsh, but when Barton arrives in town, Welsh mistakes him for the hired killer Single-Shot Smith. Figuring he can help Merwin by being part of Welsh's gang he hires on as Single-Shot. But soon the real Single-Shot appears.
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Aces and Eights
Title: Aces and Eights
Character: 'Gentleman' Tim Madigan
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.
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Lightnin' Bill Carson
Title: Lightnin' Bill Carson
Character: Marshal Lightnin' Bill Carson
Released: April 14, 1936
Type: Movie
A lawman captures the notorious "Pecos Kid", who is tried and hanged for his crimes--then starts to have doubts as to whether the Kid actually committed the crimes.
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Border Caballero
Title: Border Caballero
Character: Tim Ross
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Tex Weaver is working under cover to bring in a gang of bank robbers. When he is killed, Tim Ross, a marksman with Doc Shaw's traveling show, takes over. Posing as a Mexican he lays a trap for the gang.
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Roarin' Guns
Title: Roarin' Guns
Character: Tim Corwin
Released: January 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Tim Corwin- an agent for the Cattlemen's Association- is assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton.
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Bulldog Courage
Title: Bulldog Courage
Character: Slim Braddock / Tim Braddock
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked down and killed, his son comes to town to tangle with the banker.
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The Man from Guntown
Title: The Man from Guntown
Character: Tim Hanlon
Released: August 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When Tim Hanlon arrives to tell Ruth McArthur her long lost brother has been killed, she mistakes him for her brother. He stays on to help her retain control of the dam her farther started. But DeLong is after the dam and having had McArthur killed, he now sends his man after Tim.
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Riding Wild
Title: Riding Wild
Character: Tim Malloy / Tex Ravelle
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
It's roundup time and Stevens is out to start a range war between the big ranchers and the nesters. Tim Malloy is elected to head the roundup but is unable to stop the war and joins the nesters. With the nesters now well organized, Stevens finds a Malloy look-alike and makes a plan to use him to trap the nesters and wipe them out.
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The Outlaw Deputy
Title: The Outlaw Deputy
Character: Tim Mallory
Released: June 20, 1935
Type: Movie
While searching for his friend's killer, a former outlaw (Tim McCoy) thwarts a robbery and becomes a lawman.
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Justice of the Range
Title: Justice of the Range
Character: Tim Condon
Released: May 25, 1935
Type: Movie
The McLean and Brennan ranches are both losing cattle to rustlers and each blames the other when cattle buyer Graves is the real culprit. To throw suspicion off himself Graves hires Tim to investigate, not knowing that this will be his downfall.
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Fighting Shadows
Title: Fighting Shadows
Character: Constable Tim O'Hara
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of shooting a prisoner in the back and is then put in jail by a fellow Mountie.
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The Revenge Rider
Title: The Revenge Rider
Character: Tim O'Neil
Released: March 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.
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Law Beyond the Range
Title: Law Beyond the Range
Character: Tim McDonald
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge Sheriff. He also hopes to find the notorious leader of an outlaw gang and to also help Kane prove his innocence.
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Square Shooter
Title: Square Shooter
Character: Tim Baxter
Released: January 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.
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Prescott Kid
Title: Prescott Kid
Character: Tim Hamlin
Released: November 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Cowboy Tim Hamlin arrives in a town plagued by a gang of cattle rustlers.
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Beyond the Law
Title: Beyond the Law
Character: Tim Weston
Released: July 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Beyond the Law is a 1934 American film of crime, directed by D. Ross Lederman, starring Tim McCoy.
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A Man's Game
Title: A Man's Game
Character: Tim Bradley
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
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Hell Bent for Love
Title: Hell Bent for Love
Character: Police Captain Tim Daley
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangster, "Trigger" Talano, who frames him and brings about his disgrace; but Tim organizes a band ox ex-criminals and turns the table on the racketeer with a vengeance.
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Voice in the Night
Title: Voice in the Night
Character: Tim Dale
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Tim Dale is the son of the president of a big-city telephone company and quits his job following a dispute with his father over company policy. He takes up polo playing. Circumstances force him to give up his polo-playing and take on the job of helping a small-town telephone company overcome a plan by a gang to force the company out of business. He calls in his telephone-company pals Bob Hall and Jack to aid him against the crooks led by Matthews and Jackson, working for crooked lawyer Thomas Benton.
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Speed Wings
Title: Speed Wings
Character: Tim
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by brothers Tim and Jerry are stolen and suspicion falls on their office secretary Mary Stuart. But she can pilot an airplane with the best of them and she risks her life to save Tim. And when she gets kidnapped, Jerry regains his lost nerve in rescuing her.
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Straightaway
Title: Straightaway
Character: Tim Dawson
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Auto race champ Tim Dawson and his brother Billy are fired by boss Turnberg when they won't throw an important race to his son Carl. Pop Reeves, a competitor, finds that Turnberg had bribed his top man, Rogan, to lose, and fires him, and hires the Dawsons. His daughter Ann falls for Tim, yet it's Billy that wants her and proposes to her. She says no and declares herself to Tim. At the next big race, Rogan tries to cause Billy to smash, but he does instead, then accuses Tim of being responsible before dying. A police detective decides that Tim had done it so his brother could win, and leaves him one option, his brother must lose the upcoming Indy 500 or he'll know Tim's guilty.
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Hold the Press
Title: Hold the Press
Character: Tim Collins
Released: October 25, 1933
Type: Movie
When newspaper reporter Tim Collins, of the "Post", is slugged while investigating the shooting of a big-time gambler, he sets out to get his man with such determination that he ends up in jail. There, he discovers a "parole racket" which involves a crooked politician, and he faces death to get the story for his paper.
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Police Car 17
Title: Police Car 17
Character: Tim Conlon
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop.
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Rusty Rides Alone
Title: Rusty Rides Alone
Character: Tim Burke
Released: May 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Bart Quillan and his sons are after Martin's ranch. Burke arrives to help Martin but being outnumbered he hopes to get help from Powers. But no one is sure which side Powers and his gang are on.
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The Whirlwind
Title: The Whirlwind
Character: Tim Reynolds
Released: April 13, 1933
Type: Movie
After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find the Sheriff Tate Hurley who was his chief accuser. The hatred between the two men was not extinguished, and they first compete in a wrestling match.
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Silent Men
Title: Silent Men
Character: Tim Richards
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector. He is after the Wilder brothers who he thinks are rustling cattle.
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Man Of Action
Title: Man Of Action
Character: Ranger Tim Barlow
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
The Sheriff shoots the robber of the Bank and recovers the money bag only to find it empty. Ranger Tim Barlow arrives and takes over the investigation.
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End of the Trail
Title: End of the Trail
Character: Captain Tim Travers
Released: December 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Framed by Major Jenkins, Capt. Travers is kicked out of the Army. When Travers, now living with the Indians, is captured by Jenkins, the Indians attack the fort. With his men greatly outnumbered Colonel Burke realizes that Travers is their only chance.
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The Western Code
Title: The Western Code
Character: Tim Barrett
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian, he learns her mother married ranch foreman Nick Grindel shortly before her death, and left everything to him in her will. Nick has proposed marriage to his stepdaughter, and she fears violence if her hot-blooded brother Dick finds out. When a body is found at the Bow Knot, Tim barely rescues Dick from a necktie party and is deputized to investigate when Dick confesses to a crime he didn't commit.
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Fighting for Justice
Title: Fighting for Justice
Character: Tim Keene
Released: August 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Property taxes, murder charges, and outlaws trouble the son of a dead rancher.
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Cornered
Title: Cornered
Character: Sheriff Tim Laramie
Released: August 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Shortly after Moody Pierson saves Sheriff Tim's life, Moody is arrested for murder. Tim doesn't believe he did it and lets him get away. Kicked out as Sheriff, Tim goes after the real kiler and this leads him to the town controlled by Red Slavins.
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Daring Danger
Title: Daring Danger
Character: Tim Madigan
Released: June 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
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Two-Fisted Law
Title: Two-Fisted Law
Character: Tim Clark
Released: June 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Rancher Tim Clark borrows money from Bob Russell, who then rustles Clark's cattle so he will be unable to repay the money. Thus Russell is able to cheat Clark out of his ranch. Clark becomes a prospector for silver and ultimately comes to settle accounts with Russell and crooked deputy Bendix.
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Hollywood on Parade
Title: Hollywood on Parade
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A short featuring many stars
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The Riding Tornado
Title: The Riding Tornado
Character: Tim Torrant
Released: May 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torrent goes to work for Olcott. Torrent fights with Stark and Stark quits and goes to work for Engle. Rustlers are stealing horses. Carson suspects Olcott and Olcott suspects Carson. Sheriff prevents war between them. Torrent stops wild horse stampede. Starks spills beans on Engle. Torrent kills Engle and wins Patsy Olcott.
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Texas Cyclone
Title: Texas Cyclone
Character: Texas Grant
Released: February 24, 1932
Type: Movie
When Texas Grant rides into town people think the supposedly dead Jim Rawlins has returned. After a confrontation with Utah Becker, Grant learns Jim's wife, Helen, is about to lose her ranch to Becker, so he decides to stay and pose as Rawlins in an effort to help her.
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The Fighting Fool
Title: The Fighting Fool
Character: Sheriff Tim Collins
Released: January 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A sheriff (Tim McCoy) flirts with a local girl (Marceline Day) and chases an outlaw called the Shadow.
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The Fighting Marshal
Title: The Fighting Marshal
Character: Tim Benton
Released: November 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim McCoy, Texas Cyclone) escapes from prison with his cellmate, Red Larkin (Matthew Betz, The Wedding March), a dangerous killer. Disguised as the town's lawman, Tim sets off for Silver City to take back money that's rightfully his and hopefully clear his name. But Red has plans of his own and wants the money for himself. Newly remastered.
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The One Way Trail
Title: The One Way Trail
Character: Tim Allen
Released: October 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Tim thinks saloon owner Coldeye killed his brother. Seeking the ultimate payback, Tim gets a job in the saloon but has no idea he is targeting the wrong man.
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The Indians Are Coming
Title: The Indians Are Coming
Character: Jack Manning
Released: October 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Jack Manning (Tim McCoy) arrives in a midwestern town from Gold Creek in Califonia. He brings a message from Goerge Woods (Francis Ford) to his brother Tom Woods (Francis Ford), in a dual role, and niece Mary (Allene Ray, informing them he has struck gold and asking them to join him in California via a wagon train. Jack and Mary fall in love to the great displeasure of Rance Carter (Wilbur McGaugh) who has a yen for Mary himself. Jack and Mary not only have to be wary of Carter's crooked ways and machinations, but also of Indian uprisings, caused by Carter.
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The Desert Rider
Title: The Desert Rider
Character: Jed Tyler
Released: May 11, 1929
Type: Movie
Jack Hoxie pledges to take care of a prospector's son before the man dies from shooting wounds. Jack Hoxie must find the killer before he disappears with the prospector's gold. A young woman also searches the killer for motives of her own.
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Sioux Blood
Title: Sioux Blood
Character: Flood
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
One of John Waters' two Tim McCoy westerns made with MGM in the last years of the silent era. A print is preserved at the George Eastman House in New York but it hasn't been made available to the public and there don't seem to be any plans for it.
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The Overland Telegraph
Title: The Overland Telegraph
Character: Captain Allen
Released: March 2, 1929
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, Indians, who fear the wires, kill some of the linesmen. In response, Major Hammond, who oversees the troops, requests that President Abraham Lincoln send twenty thousand more soldiers to come to his aid. Lincoln grants Hammond's request, and sends along Capt. Allen, who is knowledgeable about Indians. At his new post, Allen discovers that a Confederate spy has been fomenting trouble with the Indians. Allen eventually uncovers the spy, makes peace with the Indians and wins the love of Dorothy, a young woman who lives at the post.
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Morgan's Last Raid
Title: Morgan's Last Raid
Character: Capt. Daniel Clairbourne
Released: January 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Dan Claibourne refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan joins Morgan's raiders of the Confederate Army and gets an opportunity to rescue the girl during a raid.
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The Adventurer
Title: The Adventurer
Character: Jim McClellan
Released: July 14, 1928
Type: Movie
American mining engineer Jim McClellan is in love with Dolores de Silva, daughter of the deposed president of a Latin American country. He becomes involved in the revolution....
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The Law of the Range
Title: The Law of the Range
Character: Jim Lockhart
Released: January 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering "Solitaire Kid".
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Spoilers of the West
Title: Spoilers of the West
Character: Lieutenant Lang
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
A soldier falls in love with a beautiful settler who has refused his order to leave American Indian land.
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Foreign Devils
Title: Foreign Devils
Character: Capt. Robert Kelly
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Capt. Robert Kelly holds off the foreign mob single-handed and makes good his escape during the Boxer rebellion.
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The Frontiersman
Title: The Frontiersman
Character: John Dale
Released: June 11, 1927
Type: Movie
John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the treacherous White Snake in particular.
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California
Title: California
Character: Capt. Archibald Gillespie
Released: May 7, 1927
Type: Movie
"The war with Mexico serves to bring together American officer and Mexican senorita, the former all ardent and the latter defiant because of the fact that their countries are at war. Coincident with the American victory is the successful conquest by the 'gringo' of the girl's heart."
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Winners Of The Wilderness
Title: Winners Of The Wilderness
Character: Col. Sir Dennis O'Hara
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
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War Paint
Title: War Paint
Character: Lt. Tim Marshall
Released: October 9, 1926
Type: Movie
An Indian chief of the Arapahoe escapes the reservation where he has been living and takes along some of his warriors. The cavalry is sent out for them.
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The Thundering Herd
Title: The Thundering Herd
Character: Burn Hudnall
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.