Joel McCrea
Born
November 5, 1905
Died
October 20, 1990 (84 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
South Pasadena, California, USA
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
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
2008
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
2004
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Self (archive footage)
1997
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
1985
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1982
Mustang Country
Dan
1976
The Great American Cowboy
Narrator
1973
Cry Blood Apache
Pitcalin as an Older Man
1970
Sioux Nation
1970
The Young Rounders
1966
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · (1 episode)
1962
Ride the High Country
Steve Judd
1962
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
The Crowning Experience
Prologue Narrator
1960
Wichita Town
Marshal Mike Dunbar · (26 episodes)
1959
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Bat Masterson
1959
Fort Massacre
Vinson
1958
Cattle Empire
John Cord
1958
The Tall Stranger
Ned Bannon
1957
Gunsight Ridge
Mike Ryan
1957
Trooper Hook
Sgt. Clovis Hook
1957
The Oklahoman
John
1957
The First Texan
Sam Houston
1956
Wichita
Wyatt Earp
1955
Stranger on Horseback
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
1955
Black Horse Canyon
Del Rockwell
1954
Border River
Clete Mattson
1954
The Lone Hand
Zachary Hallock
1953
Rough Shoot
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
1953
The San Francisco Story
Rick Nelson
1952
Cattle Drive
Dan Mathews
1951
Hollywood Story
Joel McCrea
1951
Frenchie
Sheriff Tom Banning
1950
Saddle Tramp
Chuck Conner
1950
Stars in My Crown
Josiah Doziah Gray
1950
The Outriders
Will Owen
1950
Colorado Territory
Wes McQueen
1949
South of St. Louis
Kip Davis
1949
Four Faces West
Ross McEwen
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · (1 episode)
1948
Ramrod
Dave Nash
1947
The Virginian
The Virginian
1946
The Unseen
David Fielding
1945
The Great Moment
William Thomas Green Morton
1944
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
1944
The More the Merrier
Joe Carter
1943
Stars on Horseback
1943
The Palm Beach Story
Tom Jeffers
1942
Sullivan's Travels
John Sullivan
1941
The Great Man's Lady
Mr. Sempler
1941
Reaching for the Sun
Russ Eliot
1941
Breakdowns of 1940
Self
1940
Foreign Correspondent
John Jones
1940
Primrose Path
Ed Wallace
1940
He Married His Wife
T.H. Randall
1940
Espionage Agent
Barry Corvall
1939
They Shall Have Music
Peter McCarthy
1939
Union Pacific
Jeff Butler
1939
Youth Takes a Fling
Joe Meadows
1938
Three Blind Mice
Van Dam Smith
1938
Wells Fargo
Ramsay MacKay
1937
Dead End
Dave
1937
Woman Chases Man
Kenneth Nolan
1937
Internes Can't Take Money
Jimmie Kildare
1937
Banjo on My Knee
Ernie Holley
1936
Come and Get It
Richard Glasgow
1936
Adventure in Manhattan
George Melville
1936
Two in a Crowd
Larry Stevens
1936
These Three
Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
1936
Splendor
Brighton Lorrimore
1935
Barbary Coast
Jim Carmichael
1935
Woman Wanted
Tony
1935
Private Worlds
Dr. Alex MacGregor
1935
Our Little Girl
Donald Middleton
1935
The Richest Girl in the World
Anthony Travers
1934
Half a Sinner
John Adams
1934
Gambling Lady
Garry Madison
1934
Chance at Heaven
Blacky Gorman
1933
One Man's Journey
Jimmy Watt
1933
Bed of Roses
Dan
1933
The Silver Cord
David Phelps
1933
Scarlet River
Himself (uncredited)
1933
Rockabye
Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
1932
The Sport Parade
Sandy Brown
1932
The Most Dangerous Game
Robert Rainsford
1932
Bird of Paradise
Johnny Baker
1932
The Lost Squadron
Red
1932
Business and Pleasure
Lawrence Ogle
1932
Girls About Town
Jim Baker
1931
The Common Law
John 'Jack' Neville
1931
Born to Love
Barry Craig
1931
Kept Husbands
Richard Brunton
1931
Once a Sinner
Tommy Mason
1931
Lightnin'
John Marvin
1930
The Silver Horde
Boyd Emerson
1930
Framed
Waiter (uncredited)
1930
Dynamite
Marco
1929
So This Is College
Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
1929
The Single Standard
Party Guest (uncredited)
1929
The Divine Lady
Extra (uncredited)
1928
Dead Man's Curve
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1928
The Enemy
Extra (uncredited)
1927
The Fair Co-Ed
1927