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Joel McCrea
Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

ActingBorn November 5, 1905Died October 20, 1990 (age 84)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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2008Movie
1997Movie
1982Movie
1976Movie
1973Movie
1970
Cry Blood Apache

as Pitcalin as an Older Man

Movie
1970Movie
1962Movie
1960
The Crowning Experience

as Prologue Narrator

Movie
1959
Wichita Town

as Marshal Mike Dunbar

TV
1959Movie
1958
Fort Massacre

as Vinson

Movie
1958
Cattle Empire

as John Cord

Movie
1957
The Tall Stranger

as Ned Bannon

Movie
1957
Gunsight Ridge

as Mike Ryan

Movie
1957
Trooper Hook

as Sgt. Clovis Hook

Movie
1957Movie
1956
The First Texan

as Sam Houston

Movie
1955
Wichita

as Wyatt Earp

Movie
1955
Stranger on Horseback

as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne

Movie
1954
Black Horse Canyon

as Del Rockwell

Movie
1954
Border River

as Clete Mattson

Movie
1953
The Lone Hand

as Zachary Hallock

Movie
1953
Rough Shoot

as Lt. Col. Robert Taine

Movie
1952Movie
1951
Cattle Drive

as Dan Mathews

Movie
1951
Hollywood Story

as Joel McCrea

Movie
1950
Frenchie

as Sheriff Tom Banning

Movie
1950
Saddle Tramp

as Chuck Conner

Movie
1950
Stars in My Crown

as Josiah Doziah Gray

Movie
1950
The Outriders

as Will Owen

Movie
1949
Colorado Territory

as Wes McQueen

Movie
1949
South of St. Louis

as Kip Davis

Movie
1948
Four Faces West

as Ross McEwen

Movie
1947
Ramrod

as Dave Nash

Movie
1946
The Virginian

as The Virginian

Movie
1945
The Unseen

as David Fielding

Movie
1944
The Great Moment

as William Thomas Green Morton

Movie
1944
Buffalo Bill

as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Movie
1943Movie
1942
The Palm Beach Story

as Tom Jeffers

Movie
1941
Sullivan's Travels

as John Sullivan

Movie
1941
The Great Man's Lady

as Mr. Sempler

Movie
1941Movie
1940Movie
1940Movie
1940
Primrose Path

as Ed Wallace

Movie
1940
He Married His Wife

as T.H. Randall

Movie
1939
Espionage Agent

as Barry Corvall

Movie
1939
They Shall Have Music

as Peter McCarthy

Movie
1939
Union Pacific

as Jeff Butler

Movie
1938
Youth Takes a Fling

as Joe Meadows

Movie
1938
Three Blind Mice

as Van Dam Smith

Movie
1937
Wells Fargo

as Ramsay MacKay

Movie
1937
Dead End

as Dave

Movie
1937
Woman Chases Man

as Kenneth Nolan

Movie
1937
Internes Can't Take Money

as Jimmie Kildare

Movie
1936
Banjo on My Knee

as Ernie Holley

Movie
1936
Come and Get It

as Richard Glasgow

Movie
1936
Adventure in Manhattan

as George Melville

Movie
1936
Two in a Crowd

as Larry Stevens

Movie
1936
These Three

as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin

Movie
1935
Splendor

as Brighton Lorrimore

Movie
1935
Barbary Coast

as Jim Carmichael

Movie
1935Movie
1935
Private Worlds

as Dr. Alex MacGregor

Movie
1935
Our Little Girl

as Donald Middleton

Movie
1934Movie
1934
Half a Sinner

as John Adams

Movie
1934
Gambling Lady

as Garry Madison

Movie
1933
Chance at Heaven

as Blacky Gorman

Movie
1933
One Man's Journey

as Jimmy Watt

Movie
1933Movie
1933
The Silver Cord

as David Phelps

Movie
1933
Scarlet River

as Himself (uncredited)

Movie
1932
Rockabye

as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell

Movie
1932
The Sport Parade

as Sandy Brown

Movie
1932
The Most Dangerous Game

as Robert Rainsford

Movie
1932
Bird of Paradise

as Johnny Baker

Movie
1932Movie
1932
Business and Pleasure

as Lawrence Ogle

Movie
1931
Girls About Town

as Jim Baker

Movie
1931
The Common Law

as John 'Jack' Neville

Movie
1931
Born to Love

as Barry Craig

Movie
1931
Kept Husbands

as Richard 'Dick' Brunton

Movie
1931
Once a Sinner

as Tommy Mason

Movie
1930
Lightnin'

as John Marvin

Movie
1930
The Silver Horde

as Boyd Emerson

Movie
1930
Framed

as Waiter (uncredited)

Movie
1929
Dynamite

as Marco

Movie
1929
So This Is College

as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)

Movie
1929
The Single Standard

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Movie
1929
The Jazz Age

as Todd Sayles

Movie
1928
The Divine Lady

as Extra (uncredited)

Movie
1928
Dead Man's Curve

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Movie
1927
The Enemy

as Extra (uncredited)

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayNovember 5, 1905
Day of DeathOctober 20, 1990
Place of BirthSouth Pasadena, California, USA
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