Roy Barcroft, the Glossary
Roy Barcroft (born Howard Harold Ravenscroft; September 7, 1902 – November 28, 1969) was an American character actor famous for playing villains in B-Westerns and other genres.[1]
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64 relations: Along the Navajo Trail (film), Annie Oakley (TV series), Band of Angels, Bandolero!, Broadcast syndication, California, Call of the South Seas, Canyon City (1943 film), Character actor, Classic Images, Cowboy, Crab Orchard, Nebraska, Crashing Thru (1939 film), Down Laredo Way, Film criticism, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, Frontier Investigator, Gandy dancer, Girls of the Big House, Gunsmoke, Hawaii, Hoppy Serves a Writ, Laramie (TV series), Leonard Maltin, Man from Texas (1939 film), Man Without a Star, Monte Walsh (1970 film), Motion Picture & Television Fund, Oklahoma Badlands, Oklahoma! (1955 film), Oregon Trail Scouts, Radar Men from the Moon, Rawhide (TV series), Renegades of Sonora, Republic Pictures, Roughneck, S.O.S. Coast Guard, Sailor, Serial film, Sheriff of Sundown, Spin and Marty, Stagecoach to Denver, Straightaway (TV series), Sunset in El Dorado, The Bandit Trail, The Bold Frontiersman, The Dakota Kid, The Far Frontier, The Frontiersmen, ... Expand index (14 more) »
Along the Navajo Trail (film)
Along the Navajo Trail is a 1945 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes and Dale Evans.
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Annie Oakley (TV series)
Annie Oakley is an American Western television series that fictionalizes the life of the famous Annie Oakley.
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Band of Angels
Band of Angels is a 1957 American psychological drama film set in the American South before and during the American Civil War, based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Robert Penn Warren.
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Bandolero!
Bandolero! is a 1968 American Western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch and George Kennedy.
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Broadcast syndication
Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Call of the South Seas
Call of the South Seas is a 1944 American action film directed by John English starring Janet Martin, Allan Lane and William Henry.
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Canyon City (1943 film)
Canyon City is a 1943 American Western film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Don 'Red' Barry, Wally Vernon and Helen Talbot.
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Character actor
A character actor is an actor known for playing unusual, eccentric or interesting characters in supporting roles, rather than leading ones.
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Classic Images
Classic Images is a monthly American mail-subscription newspaper in tabloid format, founded in 1962 by film collector Samuel K. Rubin, dedicated to film and television of the "Golden Age".
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Cowboy
A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks.
Crab Orchard, Nebraska
Crab Orchard is a village in Johnson County, Nebraska, United States.
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Crashing Thru (1939 film)
Crashing Thru is a 1939 American northern action film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring James Newill, Jean Carmen and Warren Hull.
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Down Laredo Way
Down Laredo Way is a 1953 American Western film directed by William Witney and starring Rex Allen, Dona Drake and Slim Pickens.
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Film criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe is a 1940 American black-and-white science-fiction 12-chapter movie serial from Universal Pictures, produced by Henry MacRae and co-directed by Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor.
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Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars is a 1938 Universal Pictures 15–chapter science-fiction movie serial based on the syndicated newspaper comic strip Flash Gordon.
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Frontier Investigator
Frontier Investigator is a 1949 American Western film directed by Fred C. Brannon and written by Robert Creighton Williams.
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Gandy dancer
Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers in the United States, more formally referred to as section hands, who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines.
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Girls of the Big House
Girls of the Big House is a 1945 American drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Lynne Roberts, Virginia Christine and Marion Martin.
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Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston.
Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
Hoppy Serves a Writ
Hoppy Serves a Writ is a 1943 Western film directed by George Archainbaud and starring William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy, the 43rd of 66 Cassidy features.
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Laramie (TV series)
Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963.
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Leonard Maltin
Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic, film historian, and author.
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Man from Texas (1939 film)
Man from Texas is a 1939 American Western film directed by Albert Herman and starring Tex Ritter, Ruth Rogers and Hal Price.
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Man Without a Star
Man Without a Star is a 1955 American Western film starring Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor, William Campbell, Richard Boone, Mara Corday, and Myrna Hansen.
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Monte Walsh (1970 film)
Monte Walsh is a 1970 American Western film directed by cinematographer William A. Fraker (his directorial debut) starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Palance.
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Motion Picture & Television Fund
The Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) is a charitable organization that offers assistance and care to those in the motion picture and television industries and their families with limited or no resources, including services such as temporary financial assistance, case management, and residential living.
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Oklahoma Badlands
Oklahoma Badlands is a 1948 American Western film directed by Yakima Canutt and written by Robert Creighton Williams.
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Oklahoma! (1955 film)
Oklahoma! is a 1955 American musical film based on the 1943 musical of the same name by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was based on the 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs written by Lynn Riggs. It stars Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones (in her film debut), Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore, and Eddie Albert.
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Oregon Trail Scouts
Oregon Trail Scouts is a 1947 American Western film in the Red Ryder film series directed by R. G. Springsteen and written by Earle Snell.
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Radar Men from the Moon
Radar Men from the Moon is a 1952 Republic Pictures' 12-chapter movie serial, the first Commando Cody serial starring newcomer George Wallace as Cody, Aline Towne as his sidekick Joan Gilbert, and serial veteran Roy Barcroft as the evil Retik, the Ruler of the Moon.
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Rawhide (TV series)
Rawhide is an American Western television series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood.
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Renegades of Sonora
Renegades of Sonora is a 1948 American Western film directed by R. G. Springsteen and written by M. Coates Webster.
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Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures Corporation (currently held under Melange Pictures, LLC) was an American film studio corporation that originally operated from 1935 to 1967, based in Los Angeles, California.
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Roughneck
Roughneck is a term for a person whose occupation is hard manual labor.
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S.O.S. Coast Guard
S O S Coast Guard is a 1937 Republic film serial.
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Sailor
A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.
Serial film
A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed.
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Sheriff of Sundown
Sheriff of Sundown is a 1944 American Western film.
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Spin and Marty
Spin and Marty is a series of television shorts that aired as part of The Mickey Mouse Club show of the mid-1950s, produced by Walt Disney and broadcast on the ABC network in the United States.
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Stagecoach to Denver
Stagecoach to Denver is a 1946 American Western film and one of the Republic Pictures Red Ryder film series directed by R. G. Springsteen.
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Straightaway (TV series)
Straightaway is an American adventure drama television series starring Brian Kelly and John Ashley which centers around two partners in an automobile workshop who design race cars.
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Sunset in El Dorado
Sunset in El Dorado is a 1945 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Roy Rogers.
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The Bandit Trail
The Bandit Trail is a 1941 American western film directed by Edward Killy.
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The Bold Frontiersman
The Bold Frontiersman is a 1948 American Western film directed by Philip Ford and written by Robert Creighton Williams.
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The Dakota Kid
The Dakota Kid is a 1951 American Western film directed by Philip Ford and starring Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen and James Bell.
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The Far Frontier
The Far Frontier is a 1948 American Western film starring Roy Rogers.
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The Frontiersmen
The Frontiersmen (sometimes erroneously labeled as The Frontiersman) is a 1938 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Norman Houston and Harrison Jacobs.
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The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
The Lone Rider in Cheyenne is a 1942 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Oliver Drake and Elizabeth Beecher.
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The Mickey Mouse Club
The Mickey Mouse Club is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and returned to social media in 2017.
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The Purple Monster Strikes
The Purple Monster Strikes is a 1945 Republic Movie serial.
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The Spoilers (1955 film)
The Spoilers is a 1955 American Western film directed by Jesse Hibbs and starring Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler and Rory Calhoun.
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The Wild Frontier (film)
The Wild Frontier is a 1947 American Western film directed by Philip Ford and written by Albert DeMond.
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Trailing Double Trouble
Trailing Double Trouble is a 1940 American Western film directed by S. Roy Luby and written by George H. Plympton and Oliver Drake.
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Train to Alcatraz
Train to Alcatraz is a 1948 American prison film directed by Philip Ford and starring Don Barry, Janet Martin, William Phipps, Roy Barcroft, and June Storey.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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Vigilantes of Boomtown
Vigilantes of Boomtown is a 1947 American Western film in the Red Ryder film series directed by R. G. Springsteen, written by Earle Snell, and starring Allan Lane, Robert Blake, Martha Wentworth, Roscoe Karns, Roy Barcroft and Peggy Stewart.
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Walt Disney Treasures
Walt Disney Treasures is a series of two-disc DVD collections of Disney cartoons, television episodes and other material.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
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Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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Wyoming (1947 film)
Wyoming is a 1947 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Wild Bill Elliott, Vera Ralston and John Carroll.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Barcroft
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