WALTER COY BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Walter Coy was born on July 31st, 1909 in Great Falls, Montana with the middle name Darwin. Coy is most well known for narrating the western series, "Frontier" that aired on NBC between 1955 and 1956.
Some of the fifteen episodes he narrated included, "Cattle Drive to Casper", "In Nebraska", "Tomas and the Widow" and "Paper Gunman" among others.
His career as an actor began as a stage performer and eventually he began appearing on Broadway in the 1930's and remained working as a Broadway actor up until 1948. By the early 1950's he had broken into the film industry and was adding such credits as, "Barricade" (1950) starring Dane Clark, Ruth Roman, Raymond Massey and Robert Douglas, "Colt .45" (1950) starring alongside Randolph Scott, Ruth Roman, Zachary Scott, Alan Hale Sr. and Lloyd Bridges, "Under Mexicali Stars" (1950) starring Rex Allen, Dorothy Patrick and Roy Barcroft and "FBI Girl" (1951) starring Cesar Romero, George Brent, Audrey Totter, Tom Drake, Raymond Burr and Joi Lansing.
Along with early film work he began adding some television credits such as, "China Smith", "Gruen Guild Theater" and "Racket Squad". Over the course of his career in the industry he would mostly focus on work as a television actor with occasional film roles in, "The Lusty Men" (1952) Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy, Frank Faylen and Arthur Hunnicutt, "So Big" (1953) starring Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Richard Beymer, Tommy Rettig, Steve Forrest, Martha Hyer, Nancy Olson and Roland Winters, "Sign of the Pagan" (1954) starring with Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance, Leo Gordon, Michael Ansara, Rita Gam, Jeff Morrow and Howard Petrie, "Wichita" (1955) starring Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Jack Elam, Wallace Ford, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert J. Wilke, Edgar Buchanan and Keith Larsen, "The Searchers" (1956) starring alongside John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood, Henry Brandon, Ward Bond, John Qualen, Vera Miles, Ken Curtis, Hank Worden, Pippa Scott, Patrick Wayne and Harry Carey Jr., "Juvenile Jungle" (1958) also starring Corey Allen, Rebecca Welles and Richard Bakalyan, "The Gunfight at Dodge City" (1959) starring Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Harry Lauter, Nancy Gates, Richard Anderson and James Westerfield and "Five Guns to Tombstone" (1960) starring James Brown, John Wilder and Willis Bouchey.
Coy appeared on over one hundred television series such as, "Bonanza", "Lassie", "The Deputy", "Lock Up", "The Big Valley", "Maverick", "Lawman", "Boston Blackie", "Wagon Train", "Bat Masterson", "Stories of the Century", "The Lone Ranger", "Sheriff of Cochise", "Tales of Wells Fargo", "Bronco", "The Rough Riders", "The Loretta Young Show", "Have Gun - Will Travel", "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger", "The Public Defender", "The Adventures of Jim Bowie", "The Virginian", "The Wild Wild West", "Overland Trail", "Pony Express", "Laramie" and Zane Grey Theatre" among many others.
Most recent roles included his work on the television series, "Daniel Boone" starring Fess Parker, between 1967 and 1970, portraying Chief Blackfish and appearances on the films, "Catlow" (1971) starring Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna and Leonard Nimoy and "Hay que matar a B." (1975).
He married a total of twice throughout his lifetime, first to Anne Burr in 1942 but this marriage soon came to an end and he then wed Ruth E. Harburger in 1969, however another short marriage came to an end in 1971.
Walter Coy did not re-marry, nor did he have any children of his own and on December 11th, 1974 Coy passed away at the age of sixty five, in Santa Maria, California after suffering from congestive heart failure.
Filmography
1975 Hay que matar a B.
1972 Vendetta
1971 Catlow
1967-1970 Daniel Boone
1966-1969 The Big Valley
1967-1969 The Virginian
1968 The Wild Wild West
1968 The Outcasts
1968 I Spy
1967 Ironside
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1967 El magnifico extranjero
1967 Laredo
1959-1966 Lassie
1964 The Defenders
1964 A Flame in the Wind
1957-1964 Wagon Train
1964 East Side/West Side
1964 I Eat Your Skin
1959-1963 Bonanza
1958-1963 Perry Mason
1963 McKeever & the Colonel
1963 Hazel
1957-1962 Tales of Wells Fargo
1958-1962 Bronco
1959-1961 Rawhide
1961 Gun Fight
1961 Lock Up
1961 Coronado 9
1960 Five Guns to Tombstone
1956-1960 Cheyenne
1960 The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 Two Faces West
1959-1960 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1960 Bat Masterson
1960 Rescue 8
1960 Overland Trail
1959-1960 Laramie
1960 The Texan
1960 Hotel de Paree
1960 Cash McCall
1960 Maverick
1960 The Man from Blackhawk
1960 Pony Express
1960 Shotgun Slade
1960 M Squad
1959 The Deputy
1959 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1959 Mike Hammer
1959 Tightrope
1959 North by Northwest
1959 The Gunfight at Dodge City
1957-1959 The Lineup
1959 Yancy Derringer
1959 The Rough Riders
1959 Warlock
1959 Gunmen from Laredo
1959 Lawman
1959 Have Gun - Will Travel
1959 Alcoa Theatre
1957-1959 The Restless Gun
1959 The Trap
1959 Mackenzie's Raiders
1958 Trackdown
1958 Cimarron City
1958 Goodyear Theatre
1958 South Seas Adventure
1958 Whirlybirds
1957-1958 Zane Grey Theatre
1958 Panic!
1958 Juvenile Jungle
1956-1958 State Trooper
1958 U.S. Marshal aka Sheriff of Cochise
1956-1957 Telephone Time
1957 Code 3
1957 The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1957 Johnny Tremain
1956-1957 Navy Log
1957 Hot Summer Night
1956-1957 The 20th Century-Fox Hour
1956 Pillars of the Sky
1953-1956 Schlitz Playhouse
1956 The Young Guns
1956 Screen Directors Playhouse
1956 The Fastest Gun Alive
1956 Front Row Center
1956 Crossroads
1956 On the Threshold of Space
1956 Crusader
1956 The Searchers
1955-1956 Frontier
1956 TV Reader's Digest
1956 Matinee Theatre
1955-1956 Four Star Playhouse
1953-1956 You Are There
1955 Steve Donovan, Western Marshal
1955 Running Wild
1953-1955 The Loretta Young Show
1955 Science Fiction Theatre
1955 Wichita
1955 The Star and the Story
1955 Cult of the Cobra
1955 Studio 57
1954-1955 Cavalcade of America
1955 The Millionaire
1954-1955 The Public Defender
1955 The Lone Ranger
1955 The Adventures of Falcon
1954 Sign of the Pagan
1951-1954 Fireside Theatre
1954 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
1954 Stories of the Century
1954 Them!
1954 Phantom of the Rue Morgue
1953-1954 The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953 The Revlon Mirror Theater
1953 All the Brothers Were Valiant
1953 So Big
1953 Boston Blackie
1951-1953 Family Theatre
1953 City Detective
1952 Flat Top
1952 The Lusty Men
1952 China Smith
1952 Bugles in the Afternoon
1952 Gruen Guild Theater
1951 Racket Squad
1951 FBI Girl
1950 Under Mexicali Stars
1950 Saddle Tramp
1950 Colt .45
1950 Barricade
1936 Love Letters of a Star
