Tim McCoy

Born: April 10, 1891, Saginaw, Michigan
Died: January 29, 1978 (age 86), Ft. Huachuca, Sierra Vista, Arizona

Tim McCoy (Timothy John Fitzgerald  McCoy) was an American actor.

1. In 1922, he was asked by the head of Famous Players-Lasky, Jesse L. Lasky, to provide American Indian extras for the Western extravaganza. What was the movie?

2. Tim McCoy stars in the early film, released both silent and sound versions. This Universal Pictures movie was a hit and proved people would go to a sound Western. What is the film?

3. He had enlisted in the U.S. Army when America entered the World War One. He was commissioned, eventually being posted as Adjutant General of Wyoming, a position he held until 1921. What rank did he hold upon resigning?

• Lieutenant
• Captain
• Colonel

4. In 1925, he appears in his first Western as Burn Hudnall is what Zane Grey Western?

5. The 52-year-old actor left Hollywood to become an officer in the Air Force during World War Two. What was his last film before leaving for war?

6. In which McCoy Western does he put on an outlaw appearance to hunt down a band of counterfeiters?

7. In this movie, the heroine is being forced off her ranch. McCoy as Tim Hanlon comes to her rescue. However, instead of staying with the leading lady, he rides off to cleanse himself of the killings forced upon him.

8. McCoy hosted a television show in Los Angeles in the 1952, called "The Tim McCoy Show", for children on weekday afternoons and Saturdays in which he provided authentic history lessons on the Old West showing old western movies.

• True or False?

9. Rode several horses with different names during his long career. In his earlier films he rode a snow-white horse named "Pal". In the "Rough Riders" series he mounted a black stallion called "Baron" and (later) "Ace".

• True or False?

10. In 1965, he appears as Judge Irving Short in this Western. What is the movie?

11. Where is Tim McCoy buried?

• Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California
• Mount Olivet Cemetery, Saginaw, Michigan
• Highland Cemetery, Great Falls, Montana

Check Your Answer

1. The Covered Wagon
2. The Indians Are Coming
3. Colonel
4. The Thundering Herd
5. West of the Law
6. Phantom Gold
7. The Man from Guntown
8. True
9. True
10. Requiem for a Gunfighter
11. Mount Olivet Cemetery, Saginaw, Michigan

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