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Line 7: \|birth_name = Howard Harold Ravenscroft \|birth_date = {{birth date\|1902\|9\|7}} \|birth_place = [[Crab Orchard, Nebraska\|Crab Orchard]], [[Johnson County, Nebraska\|Johnson County]]<br>[[Nebraska]], [[U.S.]]<ref>{{cite book\|title=Exploring Nebraska Highways: Trip Trivia\|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rjRdGsXE_joC&pg=PA238\|year=2007\|publisher=Exploring America's Highway\|isbn=978-0-9744358-7-9\|page=238}}</ref> \|death_date = {{dda\|1969\|11\|28\|1902\|9\|7}} \|death_place = [[Woodland Hills, Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S. \|death_cause = Kidney cancer \|resting_place = Body donated to medical science \|othername = Big Roy, Roy Bancroft, Howard Clifford Ravenscroft \|occupation = [[Film]], ~~[[theatre\|~~stage]], [[television]] [[actor]] \|yearsactive = 1937–1969 \|spouse = Hortense Flanagan (1930)<br />Vera Thompson (1932-1969) (his death) Line 22: ==Background== Barcroft was born '''Howard Harold Ravenscroft'''<ref>[http://www.filmreference.com/film/54/Roy-Barcroft.html Roy Barcroft Biography (1902-1969)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> to a farming family in [[Johnson County, Nebraska\|Johnson County]] in southeastern [[Nebraska]] in 1902. In 1917, at the age of fifteen, he joined the [[United States Army]] during [[World War I]] to fight in [[France]], where he was wounded in action. After leaving the military, he drifted through several jobs (including [[ranch hand]], [[roughneck]], [[Gandy dancer\|railroad worker]] and [[seaman]]) before reenlisting and being stationed in [[Hawaii]]. ==Career==

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