Career works
96
Movies
96
Series
0
Career average
7.4/10
Birth date
04/10/1891
Place of birth
Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Date of death
01/29/1978
Filmography highlights
Movies
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.…
