Horace McCoy

Emerging from a Tennessee farm, he entered the United States Army Air Corps during World War I, flying reconnaissance missions and earning France’s Croix de Guerre after being wounded. After the war he edited sports for the Dallas Journal, tried his hand at radio play-by-play, and performed on the Dallas Little Theater, where his stage work led to minor film roles such as the short “The Hollywood… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources