Tim McCoy (April 10, 1891 – January 29, 1978) was an American actor, military officer, and expert on American Indian life. McCoy is most noted for his roles in B-grade Western films. As a popular cowboy film star, he had his picture on the front of a Wheaties cereal box. Tim McCoy was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on April 10, 1891.

Tim McCoy. Actor: Two-Fisted Law. 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.

Tim McCoy. Actor: Two-Fisted Law. 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.

Jan 1, 2008 · Ross Taylor Nashville, Tennessee Tim McCoy was the 20th-century version of Buffalo Bill, respected by Indians and whites for his knowledge of the Old West. The colonel—the rank he achieved during WWI—was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1891. As a youth, he worked as a cowboy in Wyoming.

Aug 17, 2024 · But before The Duke became The Duke, Wyoming's Tim McCoy was Hollywood’s favorite Western lead actor, even getting top billing over Wayne. From left, Tim McCoy, Joan Crawford and Rex Lease in "The Law of the Range," directed by William Nigh for MGM in …

May 25, 2022 · Tim McCoy worked as an actual cowboy for many years in Wyoming’s Wind River Basin. But nothing impressed Tim so much as the day he met Buffalo Bill. Ushered back into his tent after a Saginaw performance, young Tim McCoy was dumbstruck.

Fans generally remember McCoy from his 1930s Columbia series, or in later flicks where he portrayed a steely-eyed, strong man of the west with names like "Lightnin' Bill Carson", "Trigger Tim Rand", or "U.S. Marshal Tim McCall". McCoy was born in Saginaw, Michigan, but migrated to the west and settled on a ranch in Wyoming.

Timothy Jack McCoy (May 14, 1955 – January 3, 1972) was an American murder victim from Omaha, Nebraska. [1] He is the first known victim of serial killer and sex offender John Wayne Gacy, who raped, tortured and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois, between 1972 and 1978. [2]

Dec 7, 2023 · Wyoming cowboy and Army cavalry and horse artillery veteran Tim McCoy brought realism to the silver screen. For a lad of Irish-born parents, his Michigan hometown, a lumber community, was too tame. Young Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy longed for excitement.

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.