Name
Joel McCrea
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1905-11-05
Deathday
1990-10-20 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
South Pasadena, California, USA
Biography
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he became best known.
He appeared in over one hundred films, starring in over eighty, among them Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), Preston Sturges' comedy classics Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942), the romance film Bird of Paradise (1932), the adventure classic The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Gregory La Cava's bawdy comedy Bed of Roses (1933), George Stevens' romantic comedy The More the Merrier (1943), William Wyler's These Three, Come and Get It (both 1936) and Dead End (1937), Howard Hawks' Barbary Coast (1935), and a number of western films, including Wichita (1955) as Wyatt Earp and Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962), opposite Randolph Scott.
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- 1932 The Most Dangerous Game as Robert Rainsford
- 1942 The Palm Beach Story as Tom Jeffers
- 1940 Foreign Correspondent as John Jones
- 1937 Dead End as Dave
- 1949 Colorado Territory as Wes McQueen
- 1944 The Great Moment as William Thomas Green Morton
- 1962 Ride the High Country as Steve Judd
- 1947 Ramrod as Dave Nash
- 1944 Buffalo Bill as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
- 1939 Union Pacific as Jeff Butler
- 1945 The Unseen as David Fielding
- 1941 Sullivan's Travels as John Sullivan
- 1948 Four Faces West as Ross McEwen
- 1951 Hollywood Story as Joel McCrea
- 1940 Primrose Path as Ed Wallace
- 1943 The More the Merrier as Joe Carter
- 1936 These Three as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
- 1937 Internes Can't Take Money as Jimmie Kildare
- 1932 Bird of Paradise as Johnny Baker
- 1935 Barbary Coast as Jim Carmichael
- 1936 Come and Get It as Richard Glasgow
- 1958 Fort Massacre as Vinson
- 1959 The Gunfight at Dodge City as Bat Masterson
- 1941 The Great Man's Lady as Mr. Sempler
- 1936 Adventure in Manhattan as George Melville
- 1932 The Lost Squadron as Red
- 1931 Girls About Town as Jim Baker
- 1933 The Silver Cord as David Phelps
- 1946 The Virginian as The Virginian
- 1937 Woman Chases Man as Kenneth Nolan
- 1931 Kept Husbands as Richard 'Dick' Brunton
- 1935 Private Worlds as Dr. Alex MacGregor
- 1931 Born to Love as Barry Craig
- 1932 Rockabye as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
- 1957 The Oklahoman as John
- 1939 Espionage Agent as Barry Corvall
- 1953 Rough Shoot as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
- 1957 Trooper Hook as Sgt. Clovis Hook
- 1955 Stranger on Horseback as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
- 1935 Splendor as Brighton Lorrimore
- 1932 The Sport Parade as Sandy Brown
- 1950 Stars in My Crown as Josiah Doziah Gray
- 1934 The Richest Girl in the World as Anthony Travers
- 1933 Chance at Heaven as Blacky Gorman
- 1954 Border River as Clete Mattson
- 1937 Wells Fargo as Ramsay MacKay
- 1933 Bed of Roses as Dan
- 1951 Cattle Drive as Dan Mathews
- 1934 Gambling Lady as Garry Madison
- 1931 The Common Law as John 'Jack' Neville
- 1973 The Great American Cowboy as Narrator
- 1957 The Tall Stranger as Ned Bannon
- 1955 Wichita as Wyatt Earp
- 1950 Saddle Tramp as Chuck Conner
- 1939 They Shall Have Music as Peter McCarthy
- 1956 The First Texan as Sam Houston
- 1950 The Outriders as Will Owen
- 1930 The Silver Horde as Boyd Emerson
- 1936 Banjo on My Knee as Ernie Holley
- 1949 South of St. Louis as Kip Davis
- 1927 The Fair Co-Ed
- 1957 Gunsight Ridge as Mike Ryan
- 1929 Dynamite as Marco
- 1953 The Lone Hand as Zachary Hallock
- 1929 So This Is College as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
- 1952 The San Francisco Story as Rick Nelson
- 1933 One Man's Journey as Jimmy Watt
- 1940 He Married His Wife as T.H. Randall
- 1950 Frenchie as Sheriff Tom Banning
- 1976 Mustang Country as Dan
- 1958 Cattle Empire as John Cord
- 1935 Woman Wanted as Tony
- 1932 Business and Pleasure as Lawrence Ogle
- 1938 Three Blind Mice as Van Dam Smith
- 1928 Dead Man's Curve as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- 1941 Reaching for the Sun as Russ Eliot
- 1933 Scarlet River as Himself (uncredited)
- 1935 Our Little Girl as Donald Middleton
- 1936 Two in a Crowd as Larry Stevens
- 1928 The Divine Lady as Extra (uncredited)
- 1938 Youth Takes a Fling as Joe Meadows
- 1931 Once a Sinner as Tommy Mason
- 1929 The Single Standard as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1954 Black Horse Canyon as Del Rockwell
- 1997 Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line as Self (archive footage)
- 1930 Lightnin' as John Marvin
- 1966 The Young Rounders
- 1940 Breakdowns of 1940 as Self
- 1970 Sioux Nation
- 1960 The Crowning Experience as Prologue Narrator
- 1970 Cry Blood Apache as Pitcalin as an Older Man
- 1927 The Enemy as Extra (uncredited)
- 1934 Half a Sinner as John Adams
- 2008 Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
- 1985 George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey as Self
- 1943 Stars on Horseback
- 2004 Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
- 1982 Night of 100 Stars as Self
- 1930 Framed as Waiter (uncredited)
- 1929 The Jazz Age as Todd Sayles
- 1959 Wichita Town ( 26 episodes ) as Marshal Mike Dunbar
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
