
Tim McCoy
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)
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.259 |
Birthday | 1891-04-10 |
Place of Birth | Saginaw, Michigan, USA |
Also Known As | Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy, |

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.6/521
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 ve...
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Around the World in Eighty Days

1934

Voice in the Night
0/0
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 tak...
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Voice in the Night

1925

The Thundering Herd
0/0
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
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The Thundering Herd

1929

The Overland Telegraph
0/0
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 linesm...
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The Overland Telegraph

1929

Sioux Blood
0/0
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...
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Sioux Blood

1932

Texas Cyclone
4.2/13
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...
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Texas Cyclone

1932

Two-Fisted Law
4.6/15
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 che...
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Two-Fisted Law

1936

Aces and Eights
6/3
A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.
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Aces and Eights

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6/2
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 th...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1942

Below the Border
4.9/5
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 o...
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Below the Border

1941

Forbidden Trails
5.4/7
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 sal...
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Forbidden Trails

1936

Roarin' Guns
6.5/2
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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Roarin' Guns

1941

Arizona Bound
4.3/3
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 th...
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Arizona Bound

1942

Riders of the West
4/0
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-owne...
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Riders of the West

1935

Bulldog Courage
4.7/3
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 t...
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Bulldog Courage

1942

Ghost Town Law
5.7/3
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...
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Ghost Town Law

1942

Down Texas Way
0/1
"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. Marsha...
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Down Texas Way

1934

Hell Bent for Love
0/0
As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangs...
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Hell Bent for Love

1936

Ghost Patrol
4.6/8
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 a...
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Ghost Patrol

1936

Border Caballero
5.8/4
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 ov...
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Border Caballero

1936

Lightnin' Bill Carson
5/1
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 committ...
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Lightnin' Bill Carson

1935

The Man from Guntown
0/0
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...
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The Man from Guntown

1936

The Traitor
0/0
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 bo...
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The Traitor

1976

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
9/1
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

1941

The Gunman From Bodie
7/1
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...
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The Gunman From Bodie

1939

Straight Shooter
5.2/5
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, a...
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Straight Shooter

1935

The Outlaw Deputy
0/0
While searching for his friend's killer, a former outlaw (Tim McCoy) thwarts a robbery and becomes a lawman.
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The Outlaw Deputy

1938

West of Rainbow's End
6/1
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 bee...
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West of Rainbow's End

1935

Justice of the Range
0/0
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 sus...
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Justice of the Range

1938

Phantom Ranger
4.2/5
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...
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Phantom Ranger

1933

Straightaway
0/0
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 com...
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Straightaway

1938

Six-Gun Trail
5/1
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...
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Six-Gun Trail

1938

Lightning Carson Rides Again
5.8/4
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...
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Lightning Carson Rides Again

1934

Speed Wings
0/0
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 bro...
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Speed Wings

1934

A Man's Game
0/0
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the...
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A Man's Game

1935

Fighting Shadows
6/1
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...
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Fighting Shadows

1939

Outlaws' Paradise
0/0
Bill Carson assumes the identity of gang leader Trigger Mallory in order to fool his gang and his girlfriend.
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Outlaws' Paradise

1939

Code of the Cactus
5.5/4
A story of cattle rustling and double identities.
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Code of the Cactus

1933

Hold the Press
0/0
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...
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Hold the Press

1928

The Law of the Range
2.5/2
Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering "Solitaire Kid".
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The Law of the Range

1932

Hollywood on Parade
3/1
A short featuring many stars
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Hollywood on Parade

1932

The Western Code
0/0
When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian...
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The Western Code

1939

Trigger Fingers
0/0
Marshal and his men disguise themselves as gypsies to catch a gang of cattle thieves.
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Trigger Fingers

1942

West of the Law
5/2
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 w...
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West of the Law

1938

Code of the Rangers
0/0
A Texas Ranger is faced with the task of bringing his outlaw brother to justice.
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Code of the Rangers

1939

The Fighting Renegade
5.7/3
El Puma, a Mexican desert guide, escorts an archaeological expedition headed by Professor Lucius Lloyd through the Indian badlands of Mexico. Marian,...
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The Fighting Renegade

1935

Square Shooter
6/3
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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Square Shooter

1933

The Whirlwind
0/0
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 h...
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The Whirlwind

1933

Silent Men
0/0
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 rust...
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Silent Men

1940

Frontier Crusader
3/1
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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Frontier Crusader

1933

Rusty Rides Alone
0/0
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...
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Rusty Rides Alone

1934

Prescott Kid
0/0
Cowboy Tim Hamlin arrives in a town plagued by a gang of cattle rustlers.
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Prescott Kid

1927

Winners Of The Wilderness
7.5/2
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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Winners Of The Wilderness

1933

Man Of Action
0/0
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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Man Of Action

1939

Texas Wildcats
0/0
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...
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Texas Wildcats

1941

The Texas Marshal
0/0
Local "patriot's league" leader secretly kills off ranchers, buys up their estates, which are undermined with tin ore; Marshal and singing cowpoke tea...
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The Texas Marshal

1935

The Revenge Rider
0/0
Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.
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The Revenge Rider

1938

Two Gun Justice
6/1
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 an...
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Two Gun Justice

1936

The Lion's Den
0/0
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 M...
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The Lion's Den

1934

Beyond the Law
0/0
Beyond the Law is a 1934 American film of crime, directed by D. Ross Lederman, starring Tim McCoy.
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Beyond the Law

1928

The Adventurer
0/0
American mining engineer Jim McClellan is in love with Dolores de Silva, daughter of the deposed president of a Latin American country. He becomes inv...
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The Adventurer

1927

Foreign Devils
0/0
Capt. Robert Kelly holds off the foreign mob single-handed and makes good his escape during the Boxer rebellion.
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Foreign Devils

1927

The Frontiersman
0/0
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 t...
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The Frontiersman

1926

War Paint
0/0
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 the...
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War Paint

1935

Law Beyond the Range
0/0
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...
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Law Beyond the Range

1931

The Fighting Marshal
6/4
Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim McCoy, Texas Cyclone) escapes from prison with his cellmate, Red Larkin (Matthew Betz, The Wedd...
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The Fighting Marshal

1940

Gun Code
0/0
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 foole...
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Gun Code

1940

Riders of Black Mountain
0/0
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....
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Riders of Black Mountain

1965

Requiem for a Gunfighter
6/1
A gunfighter takes the identity of a murdered judge in order to avenge his death.
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Requiem for a Gunfighter

1930

The Indians Are Coming
4.5/2
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 brothe...
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The Indians Are Coming

1928

Beyond the Sierras
0/0
A masked avenger takes on claim jumpers.
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Beyond the Sierras

1932

Cornered
6/1
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...
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Cornered

1941

Outlaws of the Rio Grande
0/0
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 th...
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Outlaws of the Rio Grande

1940

Arizona Gang Busters
5/1
Arizona Gang Busters is another pre-WWII saber-rattler that finds a band of renegade gunmen, under the pretense of developing an irrigation project fo...
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Arizona Gang Busters

1957

Run of the Arrow
6.2/46
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...
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Run of the Arrow

1927

Spoilers of the West
0/0
A soldier falls in love with a beautiful settler who has refused his order to leave American Indian land.
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Spoilers of the West

1929

The Desert Rider
0/0
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 w...
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The Desert Rider

1929

Morgan's Last Raid
0/0
Dan Claibourne refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan...
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Morgan's Last Raid

1933

Police Car 17
2/1
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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Police Car 17

1931

The One Way Trail
0/0
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 wro...
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The One Way Trail

1932

The Riding Tornado
0/0
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. Torr...
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The Riding Tornado

1932

The Fighting Fool
0/0
A sheriff (Tim McCoy) flirts with a local girl (Marceline Day) and chases an outlaw called the Shadow.
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The Fighting Fool

1932

Daring Danger
0/0
A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
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Daring Danger

1932

Fighting for Justice
0/0
Property taxes, murder charges, and outlaws trouble the son of a dead rancher.
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Fighting for Justice

1932

End of the Trail
6/1
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 attac...
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End of the Trail

1927

California
5/1
"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...
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California

1946

Injun Talk
0/0
Interpreted by Col. Tim McCoy. Talks about Indian Sign Language. A chief signs a story and a white soldier interprets.
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Injun Talk

1935

Riding Wild
0/0
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 u...
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Riding Wild

1940

Texas Renegades
0/0
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 i...
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Texas Renegades

1931

Shotgun Pass
0/0
A rancher's plan to herd his horses is complicated by an uncooperative landowner.
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Shotgun Pass

1934

The Westerner
0/0
A rancher (Tim McCoy) and his buddy (Joseph Sauers) scare rustlers out of business.
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