 Assignments on Lewis Milestone's "The Red Pony" and Allan Dwan's "Sands of Iwo Jima" followed in 1949, films produced for Republic Pictures, with whom McCarthy was associated for many years.He was the recipient of an Oscar nomination in 1952 for John Ford's colourful "The Quiet Man", the only Republic film to be so honoured.By the mid-1950s and early 1960s, however, most of McCarthy's time was spent in television, where he worked on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "Wagon Train" and "The Munsters".