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Joel McCrea
Actor

Joel McCrea

5 Nov 1905Born
20 Oct 1990Died
84Age at death
95Credits

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),

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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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Known for

Filmography

The 80 most recent of 95 credits.

  1. 2008Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code HollywoodFilm: John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
  2. 1976Mustang CountryFilm: Dan
  3. 1973The Great American CowboyFilm: Narrator
  4. 1970Cry Blood ApacheFilm: Pitcalin as an Older Man
  5. 1970Sioux NationFilm
  6. 1966The Young RoundersFilm
  7. 1962Ride the High CountryFilm: Steve Judd
  8. 1960The Crowning ExperienceFilm: Prologue Narrator
  9. 1959Wichita TownSeries: Marshal Mike Dunbar (26 episodes)
  10. 1959The Gunfight at Dodge CityFilm: Bat Masterson
  11. 1958Fort MassacreFilm: Vinson
  12. 1958Cattle EmpireFilm: John Cord
  13. 1957The Tall StrangerFilm: Ned Bannon
  14. 1957Gunsight RidgeFilm: Mike Ryan
  15. 1957Trooper HookFilm: Sgt. Clovis Hook
  16. 1957The OklahomanFilm: John
  17. 1956The First TexanFilm: Sam Houston
  18. 1955WichitaFilm: Wyatt Earp
  19. 1955Stranger on HorsebackFilm: Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
  20. 1954Black Horse CanyonFilm: Del Rockwell
  21. 1954Border RiverFilm: Clete Mattson
  22. 1953The Lone HandFilm: Zachary Hallock
  23. 1953Rough ShootFilm: Lt. Col. Robert Taine
  24. 1952The San Francisco StoryFilm: Rick Nelson
  25. 1951Cattle DriveFilm: Dan Mathews
  26. 1951Hollywood StoryFilm: Joel McCrea
  27. 1950FrenchieFilm: Sheriff Tom Banning
  28. 1950Saddle TrampFilm: Chuck Conner
  29. 1950Stars in My CrownFilm: Josiah Doziah Gray
  30. 1950The OutridersFilm: Will Owen
  31. 1949Colorado TerritoryFilm: Wes McQueen
  32. 1949South of St. LouisFilm: Kip Davis
  33. 1948Four Faces WestFilm: Ross McEwen
  34. 1947RamrodFilm: Dave Nash
  35. 1946The VirginianFilm: The Virginian
  36. 1945The UnseenFilm: David Fielding
  37. 1944The Great MomentFilm: William Thomas Green Morton
  38. 1944Buffalo BillFilm: William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
  39. 1943The More the MerrierFilm: Joe Carter
  40. 1943Stars on HorsebackFilm
  41. 1942The Palm Beach StoryFilm: Tom Jeffers
  42. 1941Sullivan's TravelsFilm: John Sullivan
  43. 1941The Great Man's LadyFilm: Mr. Sempler
  44. 1941Reaching for the SunFilm: Russ Eliot
  45. 1940Foreign CorrespondentFilm: John Jones
  46. 1940Primrose PathFilm: Ed Wallace
  47. 1940He Married His WifeFilm: T.H. Randall
  48. 1939Espionage AgentFilm: Barry Corvall
  49. 1939They Shall Have MusicFilm: Peter McCarthy
  50. 1939Union PacificFilm: Jeff Butler
  51. 1938Youth Takes a FlingFilm: Joe Meadows
  52. 1938Three Blind MiceFilm: Van Dam Smith
  53. 1937Wells FargoFilm: Ramsay MacKay
  54. 1937Dead EndFilm: Dave
  55. 1937Woman Chases ManFilm: Kenneth Nolan
  56. 1937Internes Can't Take MoneyFilm: Jimmie Kildare
  57. 1936Banjo on My KneeFilm: Ernie Holley
  58. 1936Come and Get ItFilm: Richard Glasgow
  59. 1936Adventure in ManhattanFilm: George Melville
  60. 1936Two in a CrowdFilm: Larry Stevens
  61. 1936These ThreeFilm: Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
  62. 1935SplendorFilm: Brighton Lorrimore
  63. 1935Barbary CoastFilm: Jim Carmichael
  64. 1935Woman WantedFilm: Tony
  65. 1935Our Little GirlFilm: Donald Middleton
  66. 1935Private WorldsFilm: Dr. Alex MacGregor
  67. 1934The Richest Girl in the WorldFilm: Anthony Travers
  68. 1934Half a SinnerFilm: John Adams
  69. 1934Gambling LadyFilm: Garry Madison
  70. 1933Chance at HeavenFilm: Blacky Gorman
  71. 1933One Man's JourneyFilm: Jimmy Watt
  72. 1933Bed of RosesFilm: Dan
  73. 1933The Silver CordFilm: David Phelps
  74. 1932RockabyeFilm: Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
  75. 1932The Sport ParadeFilm: Sandy Brown
  76. 1932The Most Dangerous GameFilm: Robert Rainsford
  77. 1932Bird of ParadiseFilm: Johnny Baker
  78. 1932The Lost SquadronFilm: Red
  79. 1932Business and PleasureFilm: Lawrence Ogle
  80. 1931Girls About TownFilm: Jim Baker

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