Sep 7, 1902 - Crab Orchard, Nebraska, USA
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. From 1937 to 1957, he appeared in more than 300 films for Republic Pictures. Some of his prominent roles were the marshal in Oklahoma! (1955) and Colonel Jim Logan in The Adventures of Spin & Marty (1955 - 1957).
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| Movie | 1966 | D-Day on Mars | The Purple Monster | |
| Movie | 1954 | Rogue Cop | Lt. Vince D. Bardeman | |
| Movie | 1948 | Lightnin' in the Forest | Police Lieut. Bain | |
| Movie | 1952 | Hoodlum Empire | Morris Draper | |
| Movie | 1955 | Oklahoma! | Marshal | |
| Movie | 1948 | Out of the Storm | Arty Sorenson | |
| Movie | 1966 | Destination Inner Space | Skipper | |
| Movie | 1950 | The Savage Horde | Fergus | |
| Movie | 1967 | The Way West | Mr. Masters | |
| Movie | 1939 | The Man from Texas | Henchman Drifter | |
| Movie | 1947 | Blackmail | Spice Kellaway | |
| Movie | 1946 | G.I. War Brides | (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1944 | Haunted Harbor | Carter / Kane | |
| Movie | 1946 | Stagecoach to Denver | Big Bill Lambert | |
| Movie | 1938 | The Stranger from Arizona | Henchman Thane | |
| Movie | 1970 | Monte Walsh | Proprietor | |
| Movie | 1945 | The Vampire's Ghost | Capt. Jim Barrett | |
| Movie | 1966 | Billy the Kid Versus Dracula | Sheriff Griffin | |
| Movie | 1961 | When the Clock Strikes | Sheriff Mitchell | |
| Movie | 1947 | Son of Zorro | Henchman Boyd | |
| Movie | 1948 | The Far Frontier | Henchman Bart | |
| Movie | 1948 | Train to Alcatraz | Guard Grady | |
| Movie | 1947 | Marshal of Cripple Creek | Henchman Sweeney | |
| Movie | 1942 | Below the Border | Ed Scully | |
| Movie | 1950 | Federal Agent at Large | Nels Berger | |
| Movie | 1942 | Ridin' Down the Canyon | Henchman | |
| Movie | 1940 | Trailing Double Trouble | Jim Moreland | |
| Movie | 1951 | Insurance Investigator | Duke Wallace | |
| Movie | 1942 | Sunset on the Desert | Deputy Nelson | |
| Movie | 1939 | Crashing Thru | Henchman Green | |
| Movie | 1942 | Stardust on the Sage | Henchman Murphy | |
| Movie | 1948 | Marshal of Amarillo | Ben Dolan | |
| Movie | 1951 | Night Riders of Montana | Henchman Brink | |
| Movie | 1952 | Wild Horse Ambush | Harkins | |
| Movie | 1947 | Springtime in the Sierras | Matt Wilkes | |
| Movie | 1949 | Ranger of Cherokee Strip | Mark Sanders | |
| Movie | 1956 | Gun Brothers | Sheriff Jorgen | |
| Movie | 1944 | The Laramie Trail | Dick Rapidan | |
| Movie | 1949 | Powder River Rustlers | Henchman Bull Macons | |
| Movie | 1951 | Fort Dodge Stampede | Henchman Pike Hardin | |
| Movie | 1947 | The Fabulous Texan | Standifer | |
| Movie | 1948 | Sundown in Santa Fe | Tracy Gillette | |
| Movie | 1952 | Border Saddlemates | Steve Baxter | |
| Movie | 1945 | The Purple Monster Strikes | The Purple Monster | |
| Movie | 1945 | Manhunt of Mystery Island | Capt. Mephisto | |
| Movie | 1957 | Last Stagecoach West | Park Ketchum | |
| Movie | 1950 | Desperadoes of the West | Hacker | |
| Movie | 1956 | The Last Hunt | Maj. Smith | |
| Movie | 1960 | Freckles | John McLean | |
| Movie | 1941 | King of the Texas Rangers | Ross | |
| Movie | 1940 | Winners of the West | Logan | |
| Movie | 1950 | North of the Great Divide | Banning | |
| Movie | 1952 | Oklahoma Annie | Curt Walker | |
| Movie | 1943 | Raiders of Sunset Pass | Henchman Lefty Lewis | |
| Movie | 1943 | Man from Music Mountain | Cattlemen Henchman (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1948 | G-Men Never Forget | Vic Murkland - Commissioner Angus Cameron | |
| Movie | 1947 | Jesse James Rides Again | Frank Lawton | |
| Movie | 1946 | The Phantom Rider | The Marshal | |
| Movie | 1952 | Radar Men from the Moon | Retik | |
| Movie | 1941 | Outlaws of Cherokee Trail | Val Lamar | |
| Movie | 1938 | Flaming Frontiers | Ben Hollister - Henchman | |
| Movie | 1950 | Code of the Silver Sage | Hulon Champion | |
| Movie | 1950 | Rustlers on Horseback | Leo Straykin | |
| Movie | 1942 | The Valley of Vanishing Men | Deputy Jed 'Luke' Lucas | |
| Movie | 1948 | Renegades of Sonora | George Keeler | |
| Movie | 1952 | Black Hills Ambush | Bart | |
| Movie | 1948 | Daredevils of the Clouds | RCMP Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1950 | Under Mexicali Stars | Hays Lawson | |
| Movie | 1951 | Utah Wagon Train | Hank Driscoll | |
| Movie | 1952 | South Pacific Trail | Link Felton | |
| Movie | 1966 | Texas Across the River | Morton | |
| Movie | 1951 | In Old Amarillo | Clint Burnside | |
| Movie | 1947 | Rustlers of Devil's Canyon | Land Agent Clark | |
| Movie | 1947 | Spoilers of the North | Moose McGovern | |
| Movie | 1947 | The Wild Frontier | Henchman | |
| Movie | 1949 | Sheriff of Wichita | Sam Stark | |
| Movie | 1945 | Trail of Kit Carson | Doc Ryan | |
| Movie | 1948 | The Bold Frontiersman | Smiling Jim | |
| Movie | 1947 | Vigilantes of Boomtown | McKean | |
| Movie | 1948 | Desperadoes of Dodge City | Homesteader | |
| Movie | 1947 | Oregon Trail Scouts | Bill Hunter | |
| Movie | 1944 | Stagecoach to Monterey | J. Rodney Stevens | |
| Movie | 1952 | The WAC from Walla Walla | Mr. Prentiss | |
| Movie | 1941 | The Masked Rider | Henchman Luke | |
| Movie | 1949 | Frontier Investigator | Flint Fleming | |
| Movie | 1939 | Daredevils of the Red Circle | Mine Superintendent | |
| Movie | 1939 | The Phantom Creeps | AMI Agent Parker | |
| Movie | 1943 | Bordertown Gun Fighters | Jack Gatling | |
| Movie | 1946 | Crime of the Century | Various Voices (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1946 | The Mysterious Mr. Valentine | Blackmailer (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1950 | Vigilante Hideout | Muley Price | |
| Movie | 1951 | Wells Fargo Gunmaster | Brick Mason | |
| Movie | 1951 | Desert of Lost Men | Link | |
| Movie | 1953 | Savage Frontier | William Oakes | |
| Movie | 1953 | Bandits of the West | Bud Galloway | |
| Movie | 1952 | Captive of Billy the Kid | Piute | |
| Movie | 1949 | The James Brothers of Missouri | Ace Marlin | |
| Movie | 1939 | The Oregon Trail | Colonel Custer | |
| Movie | 1952 | Ride the Man Down | Russ Schultz | |
| Movie | 1939 | Fast and Loose | Reilly, Casino Patron (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1942 | Land of the Open Range | Gil Carse | |
| Movie | 1939 | Silver on the Sage | Henchman Ewing | |
| Movie | 1939 | Another Thin Man | Slim (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1939 | Riders of the Frontier | Outlaw Ed Carter | |
| Movie | 1942 | Nazi Agent | Chief Petty Officer (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1944 | Firebrands of Arizona | Deputy Ike | |
| Movie | 1950 | Gunmen of Abilene | Brink Fallon | |
| Movie | 1949 | Prince of the Plains | Henchman Regan | |
| Movie | 1953 | Old Overland Trail | John Anchor | |
| Movie | 1941 | Wide Open Town | Henchman Red | |
| Movie | 1940 | Yukon Flight | Henchman Lodin | |
| Movie | 1968 | Bandolero! | Bartender | |
| Movie | 1954 | Two Guns and a Badge | Bill Sterling - Rancher | |
| Movie | 1944 | The Girl Who Dared | David Scott | |
| Movie | 1944 | The Big Bonanza | Sheriff Dan Pendleton | |
| Movie | 1941 | Riders of the Badlands | Captain Rogers | |
| Movie | 1957 | Domino Kid | ||
| Movie | 1945 | Bells of Rosarita | Henchman Maxwell | |
| Movie | 1945 | Along the Navajo Trail | Rusty Channing | |
| Movie | 1946 | Home on the Range | Henchman | |
| Movie | 1957 | Gun Duel in Durango | Mr. Blaisdell (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1946 | Night Train to Memphis | Chad Morgan | |
| Movie | 1943 | Wagon Tracks West | Henchman Laird | |
| Movie | 1945 | Santa Fe Saddlemates | John Gant | |
| Movie | 1942 | Pirates of the Prairie | Lew Harmon | |
| Movie | 1949 | San Antone Ambush | Henchman Roberts | |
| Movie | 1939 | Mexicali Rose | Mac McElroy | |
| Movie | 1948 | Grand Canyon Trail | Henchman Dave Williams | |
| Movie | 1948 | The Timber Trail | Big Bart | |
| Movie | 1953 | Down Laredo Way | Cooper | |
| Movie | 1939 | Renegade Trail | Stiff-Hat Bailey | |
| Movie | 1940 | The Green Hornet Strikes Again! | Cop at Newspaper Truck Vandalism | |
| Movie | 1941 | Jesse James at Bay | Henchman Vern Stone | |
| Movie | 1949 | South of Rio | Lon Bryson | |
| Movie | 1937 | Rosalie | Conspirator (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1945 | Dakota | Poli's Driver | |
| Movie | 1948 | Madonna of the Desert | Buck Keaton | |
| Movie | 1954 | The Desperado | Martin Novak | |
| Movie | 1941 | Pals of the Pecos | Keno | |
| Movie | 1949 | Pioneer Marshal | Clip Pearson | |
| Movie | 1941 | The Bandit Trail | Joel Nesbitt | |
| Movie | 1941 | Riders of Death Valley | Henchman Dirk | |
| Movie | 1945 | The Topeka Terror | Ben Jode | |
| Movie | N/A | Captain Mephisto and the Transformation Machine | ||
| Movie | 1940 | Bad Man from Red Butte | Henchman Hank | |
| Movie | 1943 | Sagebrush Law | Mark Carter | |
| Movie | 1938 | The Frontiersmen | Sutton | |
| Movie | 1940 | The Showdown | Bowman | |
| Movie | 1940 | Hidden Gold | Hendricks | |
| Movie | 1940 | Santa Fe Trail | Engineer (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1946 | My Pal Trigger | Henchman Hunter | |
| Movie | 1940 | Deadwood Dick | Marshal Jim Bridges' Imposter | |
| Movie | 1940 | West of Carson City | Bill Tompkins | |
| Movie | 1940 | Ragtime Cowboy Joe | Henchman Putt | |
| Movie | 1951 | Rodeo King and the Senorita | Steve Lacey | |
| Movie | 1953 | Marshal of Cedar Rock | Henry Mason | |
| Movie | 1953 | El Paso Stampede | Henchman Floyd Garrett | |
| Movie | 1943 | False Colors | Sheriff | |
| Movie | 1943 | Hoppy Serves a Writ | Colby | |
| Movie | 1940 | East of the River | Policeman (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1942 | The Old Chisholm Trail | Ed Phillips | |
| Movie | 1953 | Shadows of Tombstone | Mike | |
| Movie | 1940 | Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | Ming's Soldier / Arborian Sentry (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1953 | City That Never Sleeps | ||
| Movie | 1948 | Eyes of Texas | Vic | |
| Movie | 1942 | West of the Law | Ludlow | |
| Movie | 1949 | Down Dakota Way | Mack McKenzie | |
| Movie | 1950 | Rock Island Trail | Barnes | |
| Movie | 1948 | The Main Street Kid | Torrey | |
| Movie | 1947 | Web of Danger | Monks, Worker | |
| Movie | 1946 | The Last Crooked Mile | Man on Street | |
| Movie | 1946 | Traffic in Crime | Insp. Tip Hogan | |
| Movie | 1945 | Song of Mexico | Visitor | |
| Movie | 1945 | Girls of the Big House | Police Dispatcher (voice) | |
| Movie | 1944 | Call of the South Seas | Steve Landrau | |
| Movie | 1944 | The Fighting Seabees | Seabee Barcroft (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1950 | The Arizona Cowboy | Henchman Mike Slade | |
| Movie | 1951 | Arizona Manhunt | Pete Willard | |
| Movie | 1949 | Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc. | Spade Gordon | |
| Movie | 1951 | The Dakota Kid | Henchman Turk Smith | |
| Movie | 1951 | Don Daredevil Rides Again | Douglas Stratton | |
| Movie | 1951 | Pals of the Golden West | Ward Sloan | |
| Movie | 1950 | The Missourians | Nick Kovacs | |
| Movie | 1945 | Lone Texas Ranger | Hands Weber | |
| Movie | 1945 | Marshal of Laredo | Denver Jack | |
| Movie | 1944 | Cheyenne Wildcat | Dandy Joe Meeker | |
| Movie | 1945 | Colorado Pioneers | Bull Reagan | |
| Movie | 1945 | Wagon Wheels Westward | Dave McKean Posing as John Larkin | |
| Movie | 1946 | Sun Valley Cyclone | Blackie Blake | |
| Movie | 1950 | Salt Lake Raiders | Brit Condor | |
| Movie | 1950 | Surrender | Deputy Gerard | |
| Movie | 1952 | Desperadoes' Outpost | Jim Boylan | |
| Movie | 1943 | Calling Wild Bill Elliott | Captain Carson | |
| Movie | 1952 | Leadville Gunslinger | Chet Yonker / Pete Yonker | |
| Movie | 1943 | Canyon City | Jeff Parker | |
| Movie | 1943 | Carson City Cyclone | Prosecutor Joe Newman | |
| Movie | 1943 | Cheyenne Roundup | Slim Layton | |
| Movie | 1952 | Old Oklahoma Plains | Arthur Jensen | |
| Movie | 1942 | Dawn on the Great Divide | Chuck Loder | |
| Movie | 1941 | West of Cimarron | Captain Hawks | |
| Movie | 1942 | Romance on the Range | Henchman Pete | |
| Movie | 1952 | Thundering Caravans | Ed Brill | |
| Movie | 1942 | Sunset Serenade | Bart Reynolds - Henchman | |
| Movie | 1962 | Six Black Horses | Mustanger | |
| Movie | 1943 | The Man from the Rio Grande | Henchman Ace Holden | |
| Movie | 1943 | Overland Mail Robbery | David Patterson | |
| Movie | 1944 | Hidden Valley Outlaws | Gilbert J. Leland | |
| Movie | 1942 | The Lone Rider in Cheyenne | Mort Saunders | |
| Movie | 1943 | Riders of the Rio Grande | Sarsaparilla | |
| Movie | 1943 | Six Gun Gospel | Henchman Durkin | |
| Movie | 1943 | The Stranger From Pecos | Sheriff Ben | |
| Movie | 1944 | Code of the Prairie | Professor Graham | |
| Movie | 1947 | Bandits of Dark Canyon | Jeff Conley | |
| Movie | 1945 | The Cherokee Flash | Jeff Carson | |
| Movie | 1945 | Corpus Christi Bandits | Wade Larkin | |
| Movie | 1944 | Sheriff of Sundown | Jack Hatfield | |
| Movie | 1944 | Lights of Old Santa Fe | Ken Ferguson | |
| Movie | 1945 | Sunset in El Dorado | Buster Welch | |
| Movie | 1946 | Alias Billy the Kid | Matt Conroy | |
| Movie | 1947 | Along the Oregon Trail | Jake Stoner | |
| Movie | 1947 | Last Frontier Uprising | Henchman Boyd Blackwell | |
| Movie | 1946 | Daughter of Don Q | Mel Donovan | |
| Movie | 1947 | Wyoming | Sheriff Niles | |
| Movie | 1948 | Old Los Angeles | Clyborne | |
| Movie | 1949 | Ghost of Zorro | Hank Kilgore | |
| Movie | 1948 | Oklahoma Badlands | Henchman Sanders | |
| Movie | 1948 | Sons of Adventure | Leslie Bennett | |
| Movie | 1941 | Sheriff of Tombstone | Saloon Boss | |
| Movie | 1942 | Silver Queen | Dan Carson | |
| Movie | 1950 | The Vanishing Westerner | Sand Sanderson | |
| Movie | 1949 | Law of the Golden West | Clete Larrabee | |
| Movie | 1949 | Outcasts of the Trail | Jim Judd | |
| Movie | 1943 | Idaho | Townsman Slugging Bud | |
| Movie | 1941 | They Died with Their Boots On | Officer (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1954 | Man with the Steel Whip | Sheriff [Chs. 8, 10-12] | |
| Movie | 1955 | The Spoilers | The Marshal | |
| Movie | 1955 | Man Without a Star | Sheriff Olson | |
| Movie | 1959 | Escort West | Sgt. Doyle | |
| Movie | 1939 | S.O.S Tidal Wave | ||
| Movie | 1952 | Montana Belle | Jim Clark | |
| Movie | 1940 | Stage to Chino | Dude Elliott | |
| Movie | 1957 | The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm | J.P. Flemming | |
| Movie | 1932 | A Woman Commands | Cossack | |
| Movie | 1938 | Blondes at Work | Attorney Meadows (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1943 | Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case | Prison Guard (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1951 | Honeychile | Walter Judson | |
| Movie | 1969 | Gaily, Gaily | Dr. Gorson | |
| Movie | 1969 | The Reivers | Ed (The Judge) | |
| Movie | 1960 | Ten Who Dared | Jim Baker | |
| Movie | 1938 | Heroes of the Hills | Robert Beaton | |
| Movie | 1955 | The Cobweb | Police Lieutenant Ferguson (Uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1953 | Iron Mountain Trail | Mate Orrin | |
| Movie | 1949 | The Phantom Creeps | Parker (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1951 | Street Bandits | Monk Walter | |
| Movie | 1948 | Secret Service Investigator | Al Turk | |
| Movie | 1966 | Gunpoint | Dr. Beardsley | |
| Movie | 1950 | Prisoners in Petticoats | Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1967 | The Not So Lonely Lighthouse Keeper | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1966 | Run, Light Buck, Run | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1936 | The President's Mystery | Townsman (uncredited) | |
| TV Show | 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show | Clint Biggers | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Cheyenne | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1957 | Trackdown | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1963 | The Great Adventure | Dr. Anthony Thompson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Luke | 2 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Perry Mason | Murphy | 1 |
| TV Show | 1954 | Lassie | 3 | |
| TV Show | 1965 | Laredo | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1961 | Straightaway | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Casey | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | Jim Sherwood | 10 |
| TV Show | 1967 | Cimarron Strip | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1955 | The Adventures of Spin and Marty | Col. Logan | 26 |
| TV Show | 1955 | The Millionaire | Sergeant Bailey | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Virginian | Bill Goforth | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | 3 | |
| TV Show | 1952 | Adventures of Superman | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1964 | Profiles in Courage | Judge | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Frank Hagen | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | The Rifleman | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1958 | Lawman | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1961 | Frontier Circus | 26 | |
| TV Show | 1958 | The Texan | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1954 | Public Defender | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1952 | Cavalcade of America | Herbert Wheelock | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Marshal Carl Neuman | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | The New Adventures of Spin and Marty | Jim Logan | 30 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Johnny Ringo | Pat Merlin | 1 |
| TV Show | 1953 | City Detective | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1951 | The Adventures of Kit Carson | 3 | |
| TV Show | 1957 | 26 Men | 5 | |
| TV Show | 1953 | The Man Behind the Badge | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1952 | Hopalong Cassidy | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1957 | Maverick | The Cattleman | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Maverick | Marshal | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Cliff Stanton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Sanders | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Sheriff | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Adams | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Farr | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Jake | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Asa | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Virginian | Mr. Tait | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Cotter | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Pop | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Roy | 7 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Jonas | 2 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Lucy Show | Chief of Police | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Pat Merlin | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Rady Smith | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Mike - Ranch Foreman | 1 |
| TV Show | 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Sheriff Bodie Hampton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1961 | Ben Casey | Rudick | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Further Adventures of Spin and Marty | Jim Logan | 23 |
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