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Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

Acting1905South 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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Known For

Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels

John Sullivan

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

John Jones

The Most Dangerous Game

The Most Dangerous Game

Robert Rainsford

Ride the High Country

Ride the High Country

Steve Judd

The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story

Tom Jeffers

Dead End

Dead End

Dave

The More the Merrier

The More the Merrier

Joe Carter

Union Pacific

Union Pacific

Jeff Butler

Acting History

2008
2004
1997
1985
1982
1976
1973
1970
Cry Blood Apache
as Pitcalin as an Older Man
1966
1962
1960
The Crowning Experience
as Prologue Narrator
1959
Wichita Town
TVas Marshal Mike Dunbar
1958
Cattle Empire
as John Cord
Fort Massacre
as Vinson
1957
Trooper Hook
as Sgt. Clovis Hook
The Tall Stranger
as Ned Bannon
Gunsight Ridge
as Mike Ryan
1956
The First Texan
as Sam Houston
1955
Wichita
as Wyatt Earp
Stranger on Horseback
as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
1954
Black Horse Canyon
as Del Rockwell
Border River
as Clete Mattson
1953
Rough Shoot
as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
The Lone Hand
as Zachary Hallock
1952
1951
Hollywood Story
as Joel McCrea
Cattle Drive
as Dan Mathews
1950
Stars in My Crown
as Josiah Doziah Gray
Saddle Tramp
as Chuck Conner
Frenchie
as Sheriff Tom Banning
The Outriders
as Will Owen
1949
South of St. Louis
as Kip Davis
Colorado Territory
as Wes McQueen
1948
Four Faces West
as Ross McEwen
1947
Ramrod
as Dave Nash
1946
The Virginian
as The Virginian
1945
The Unseen
as David Fielding
1944
The Great Moment
as William Thomas Green Morton
Buffalo Bill
as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
1943
1942
The Palm Beach Story
as Tom Jeffers
1941
Sullivan's Travels
as John Sullivan
The Great Man's Lady
as Mr. Sempler
1940
Primrose Path
as Ed Wallace
He Married His Wife
as T.H. Randall
1939
Union Pacific
as Jeff Butler
Espionage Agent
as Barry Corvall
They Shall Have Music
as Peter McCarthy
1938
Three Blind Mice
as Van Dam Smith
Youth Takes a Fling
as Joe Meadows
1937
Dead End
as Dave
Woman Chases Man
as Kenneth Nolan
Wells Fargo
as Ramsay MacKay
Internes Can't Take Money
as Jimmie Kildare
1936
The Children's Hour
as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
Come and Get It
as Richard Glasgow
Adventure in Manhattan
as George Melville
Banjo on My Knee
as Ernie Holley
Two in a Crowd
as Larry Stevens
1935
Splendor
as Brighton Lorrimore
Barbary Coast
as Jim Carmichael
Our Little Girl
as Donald Middleton
Private Worlds
as Dr. Alex MacGregor
1934
Gambling Lady
as Garry Madison
Half a Sinner
as John Adams
1933
The Silver Cord
as David Phelps
Chance at Heaven
as Blacky Gorman
One Man's Journey
as Jimmy Watt
Scarlet River
as Himself (uncredited)
1932
Rockabye
as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
Bird of Paradise
as Johnny Baker
The Sport Parade
as Sandy Brown
Business and Pleasure
as Lawrence Ogle
The Most Dangerous Game
as Robert Rainsford
1931
Kept Husbands
as Richard 'Dick' Brunton
Born to Love
as Barry Craig
Girls About Town
as Jim Baker
The Common Law
as John 'Jack' Neville
Once a Sinner
as Tommy Mason
1930
The Silver Horde
as Boyd Emerson
Lightnin'
as John Marvin
Framed
as Waiter (uncredited)
1929
Dynamite
as Marco
The Single Standard
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Jazz Age
as Todd Sayles
So This Is College
as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
1928
The Divine Lady
as Extra (uncredited)
Dead Man's Curve
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1927
The Enemy
as Extra (uncredited)
1926
Torrent
Stunts
1924
1923

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/5/1905
Day of Death
10/20/1990
Place of Birth
South Pasadena, California, USA
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