---
name: "Norman Selby"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/norman-selby"
fi1m_id: "norman-selby"
imdb_id: "nm0782999"
tmdb_id: 13792
wikidata_id: "Q1065512"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 December 1906"
died: "10 October 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T23:25:13.666701+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Norman Selby

## Identity

Norman Selby

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/norman-selby
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** norman-selby
- **IMDb ID:** nm0782999
- **TMDB ID:** 13792
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1065512
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_McCoy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065512, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782999/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13792

Actor. Born 21 December 1906 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 10 October 1961.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 December 1906, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Died:** 10 October 1961
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_McCoy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065512, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782999/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13792

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl*](https://film.one/film/broken-blossoms-or-the-yellow-man-and-the-girl.md) (73)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl* (1919), Fi1m 73, as A Prizefighter — [page](https://film.one/film/broken-blossoms-or-the-yellow-man-and-the-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Loose Ankles* (1930), as Terry Todd
- *The Painted Angel* (1929), as Jule
- *Paris' Girls* (1929), as Billy Wood
- *Sherlock's Home* (1924), Actor
- *Arabia* (1922), as Pussy Foot Bogs
- *Oath-Bound* (1922), as Hicks
- *To a Finish* (1921), as Wolf Gary
- *Straight from the Shoulder* (1921), as Bill Higgins
- *The Fourteenth Man* (1920), as Dwight Sylvester
- *The Honey Bee* (1920), as Carpentier
- *Eyes of Youth* (1919), as Dick Brownell
- *Secret Service* (1919), as Lieutenant Foray
- *The Hushed Hour* (1919), as Kid McCoy (as Kid McCoy)
- *Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl* (1919), as A Prizefighter — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/broken-blossoms-or-the-yellow-man-and-the-girl.md)
- *The House of Glass* (1918), as Detective Carroll
- *Betty of Greystone* (1916), as Weed's Son

## Gallery

- ![Boxer Kid McCoy (Norman Selby) sitting at a desk in city jail, Los Angeles, after his arrest on suspicion of murder. (1924)](https://film.one/media/person/3848250/gallery-dade4e219a24.jpg) Boxer Kid McCoy (Norman Selby) sitting at a desk in city jail, Los Angeles, after his arrest on suspicion of murder. (1924) — Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Kid_McCoy_%28Norman_Selby%29_sitting_at_a_desk_in_city_jail.jpg/1280px-Kid_McCoy_%28Norman_Selby%29_sitting_at_a_desk_in_city_jail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Norman Selby](https://film.one/media/person/3848250/gallery-148026be2315.jpg) Norman Selby — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Kid_McCoy.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- International Boxing Hall of Fame 1991: International Boxing Hall of Fame (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/norman-selby