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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 5, 1905
Place of Birth:
South Pasadena, California, USA
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Joel McCrea
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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | John Neville Jr. (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) |
| 1997 | Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line | Self (archive footage) |
| 1985 | George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | Self |
| 1982 | Night of 100 Stars | Self |
| 1976 | Mustang Country | Dan |
| 1973 | The Great American Cowboy | Narrator |
| 1970 | Cry Blood Apache | Pitcalin as an Older Man |
| 1970 | Sioux Nation | |
| 1966 | The Young Rounders | |
| 1962 | Ride the High Country | Steve Judd |
| 1961 | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1960 | The Crowning Experience | Prologue Narrator |
| 1959 | The Gunfight at Dodge City | Bat Masterson |
| 1958 | Fort Massacre | Vinson |
| 1958 | Cattle Empire | John Cord |
| 1957 | The Oklahoman | John |
| 1957 | Trooper Hook | Sgt. Clovis Hook |
| 1957 | The Tall Stranger | Ned Bannon |
| 1957 | Gunsight Ridge | Mike Ryan |
| 1956 | The First Texan | Sam Houston |
| 1955 | Stranger on Horseback | Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne |
| 1955 | Wichita | Wyatt Earp |
| 1954 | Border River | Clete Mattson |
| 1954 | Black Horse Canyon | Del Rockwell |
| 1953 | Rough Shoot | Lt. Col. Robert Taine |
| 1953 | The Lone Hand | Zachary Hallock |
| 1952 | The San Francisco Story | Rick Nelson |
| 1951 | Hollywood Story | Joel McCrea |
| 1951 | Cattle Drive | Dan Mathews |
| 1950 | Stars in My Crown | Josiah Doziah Gray |
| 1950 | Saddle Tramp | Chuck Conner |
| 1950 | The Outriders | Will Owen |
| 1950 | Frenchie | Sheriff Tom Banning |
| 1949 | Colorado Territory | Wes McQueen |
| 1949 | South of St. Louis | Kip Davis |
| 1948 | Four Faces West | Ross McEwen |
| 1947 | Ramrod | Dave Nash |
| 1946 | The Virginian | The Virginian |
| 1945 | The Unseen | David Fielding |
| 1944 | The Great Moment | William Thomas Green Morton |
| 1944 | Buffalo Bill | William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody |
| 1943 | The More the Merrier | Joe Carter |
| 1943 | Stars on Horseback | |
| 1942 | The Palm Beach Story | Tom Jeffers |
| 1941 | Sullivan's Travels | John Sullivan |
| 1941 | The Great Man's Lady | Mr. Sempler |
| 1941 | Reaching for the Sun | Russ Eliot |
| 1940 | Foreign Correspondent | John Jones |
| 1940 | Primrose Path | Ed Wallace |
| 1940 | He Married His Wife | T.H. Randall |
| 1940 | Breakdowns of 1940 | Self |
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Jeff Butler |
| 1939 | Espionage Agent | Barry Corvall |
| 1939 | They Shall Have Music | Peter McCarthy |
| 1938 | Three Blind Mice | Van Dam Smith |
| 1938 | Youth Takes a Fling | Joe Meadows |
| 1937 | Dead End | Dave |
| 1937 | Internes Can't Take Money | Jimmie Kildare |
| 1937 | Woman Chases Man | Kenneth Nolan |
| 1937 | Wells Fargo | Ramsay MacKay |
| 1936 | These Three | Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin |
| 1936 | Come and Get It | Richard Glasgow |
| 1936 | Adventure in Manhattan | George Melville |
| 1936 | Banjo on My Knee | Ernie Holley |
| 1936 | Two in a Crowd | Larry Stevens |
| 1935 | Barbary Coast | Jim Carmichael |
| 1935 | Private Worlds | Dr. Alex MacGregor |
| 1935 | Splendor | Brighton Lorrimore |
| 1935 | Woman Wanted | Tony |
| 1935 | Our Little Girl | Donald Middleton |
| 1934 | The Richest Girl in the World | Anthony Travers |
| 1934 | Gambling Lady | Garry Madison |
| 1934 | Half a Sinner | John Adams |
| 1933 | The Silver Cord | David Phelps |
| 1933 | Chance at Heaven | Blacky Gorman |
| 1933 | Bed of Roses | Dan |
| 1933 | One Man's Journey | Jimmy Watt |
| 1933 | Scarlet River | Himself (uncredited) |
| 1932 | The Most Dangerous Game | Robert Rainsford |
| 1932 | Bird of Paradise | Johnny Baker |
| 1932 | The Lost Squadron | Red |
| 1932 | Rockabye | Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell |
| 1932 | The Sport Parade | Sandy Brown |
| 1932 | Business and Pleasure | Lawrence Ogle |
| 1931 | Girls About Town | Jim Baker |
| 1931 | Kept Husbands | Richard Brunton |
| 1931 | Born to Love | Barry Craig |
| 1931 | The Common Law | John 'Jack' Neville |
| 1931 | Once a Sinner | Tommy Mason |
| 1930 | The Silver Horde | Boyd Emerson |
| 1930 | Lightnin' | John Marvin |
| 1930 | Framed | Waiter (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Dynamite | Marco |
| 1929 | So This Is College | Bruce Nolan (uncredited) |
| 1929 | The Single Standard | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1928 | Dead Man's Curve | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) |
| 1928 | The Divine Lady | Extra (uncredited) |
| 1927 | The Fair Co-Ed | |
| 1927 | The Enemy | Extra (uncredited) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self |
| 1959 | Wichita Town | Marshal Mike Dunbar |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |