Roy Barcroft

(1902-1969) born near Crab Orchard, Johnson County. Actor, known for his roles as a villain in B-Westerns, serials, and action pictures over a 32-year career, a decade of which was spent with Republic Pictures, he appeared in more than 320 films and 130 episodes of television programs, playing opposite such Western actors as Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, and Monte Hale and appearing in some notable non-Western roles in The Fighting Seabees in 1944, Radar Men From the Moon in 1952, and Oklahoma in 1955. Consult Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, Vol 21 (Gale, 1999) 32-36 and Billy J. Copeland, Roy Barcroft: King of the Badmen (Empire, 2000).

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