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Joel McCrea
Born · November 5, 1905
Died · October 20, 1990 (84 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: South Pasadena, California, USA
Bio
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.
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
6.4
2008
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
7.3
2004
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Self (archive footage)
7.0
1997
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
5.6
1985
Night of 100 Stars
Self
6.5
1982
Mustang Country
Dan
4.7
1976
The Great American Cowboy
Narrator
6.0
1973
Cry Blood Apache
Pitcalin as an Older Man
2.5
1970
Sioux Nation
8.5
1970
The Young Rounders
0.0
1966
Ride the High Country
Steve Judd
7.0
1962
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)
3.3
1961
The Crowning Experience
Prologue Narrator
5.0
1960
Wichita Town
Marshal Mike Dunbar · (26 episodes)
4.2
1959
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Bat Masterson
5.6
1959
Fort Massacre
Vinson
6.0
1958
Cattle Empire
John Cord
6.0
1958
The Tall Stranger
Ned Bannon
6.5
1957
Gunsight Ridge
Mike Ryan
6.0
1957
Trooper Hook
Sgt. Clovis Hook
6.6
1957
The Oklahoman
John
5.6
1957
The First Texan
Sam Houston
6.1
1956
Wichita
Wyatt Earp
6.3
1955
Stranger on Horseback
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
5.4
1955
Black Horse Canyon
Del Rockwell
5.9
1954
Border River
Clete Mattson
6.2
1954
The Lone Hand
Zachary Hallock
5.2
1953
Rough Shoot
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
6.2
1953
The San Francisco Story
Rick Nelson
4.8
1952
Cattle Drive
Dan Mathews
6.1
1951
Hollywood Story
Joel McCrea
6.6
1951
Frenchie
Sheriff Tom Banning
5.7
1950
Saddle Tramp
Chuck Conner
6.3
1950
Stars in My Crown
Josiah Doziah Gray
6.9
1950
The Outriders
Will Owen
6.9
1950
Colorado Territory
Wes McQueen
6.9
1949
South of St. Louis
Kip Davis
5.6
1949
Four Faces West
Ross McEwen
5.6
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
1948
Ramrod
Dave Nash
6.4
1947
The Virginian
The Virginian
6.1
1946
The Unseen
David Fielding
4.5
1945
The Great Moment
William Thomas Green Morton
5.8
1944
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
5.8
1944
The More the Merrier
Joe Carter
6.8
1943
Stars on Horseback
0.0
1943
The Palm Beach Story
Tom Jeffers
7.0
1942
Sullivan's Travels
John Sullivan
7.4
1941
The Great Man's Lady
Mr. Sempler
6.3
1941
Reaching for the Sun
Russ Eliot
6.0
1941
Breakdowns of 1940
Self
4.0
1940
Foreign Correspondent
John Jones
7.0
1940
Primrose Path
Ed Wallace
6.5
1940
He Married His Wife
T.H. Randall
5.1
1940
Espionage Agent
Barry Corvall
5.9
1939
They Shall Have Music
Peter McCarthy
6.0
1939
Union Pacific
Jeff Butler
6.5
1939
Youth Takes a Fling
Joe Meadows
1.0
1938
Three Blind Mice
Van Dam Smith
6.0
1938
Wells Fargo
Ramsay MacKay
5.1
1937
Dead End
Dave
7.0
1937
Woman Chases Man
Kenneth Nolan
5.6
1937
Internes Can't Take Money
Jimmie Kildare
6.4
1937
Banjo on My Knee
Ernie Holley
5.8
1936
Come and Get It
Richard Glasgow
6.8
1936
Adventure in Manhattan
George Melville
5.8
1936
Two in a Crowd
Larry Stevens
0.0
1936
These Three
Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
7.2
1936
Splendor
Brighton Lorrimore
6.3
1935
Barbary Coast
Jim Carmichael
6.6
1935
Woman Wanted
Tony
6.3
1935
Private Worlds
Dr. Alex MacGregor
5.9
1935
Our Little Girl
Donald Middleton
4.8
1935
The Richest Girl in the World
Anthony Travers
5.6
1934
Half a Sinner
John Adams
0.0
1934
Gambling Lady
Garry Madison
6.3
1934
Chance at Heaven
Blacky Gorman
5.7
1933
One Man's Journey
Jimmy Watt
7.1
1933
Bed of Roses
Dan
6.3
1933
The Silver Cord
David Phelps
7.1
1933
Scarlet River
Himself (uncredited)
4.5
1933
Rockabye
Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
6.2
1932
The Sport Parade
Sandy Brown
5.3
1932
The Most Dangerous Game
Robert Rainsford
6.9
1932
Bird of Paradise
Johnny Baker
5.0
1932
The Lost Squadron
Red
6.3
1932
Business and Pleasure
Lawrence Ogle
4.0
1932
Girls About Town
Jim Baker
6.4
1931
The Common Law
John 'Jack' Neville
5.5
1931
Born to Love
Barry Craig
5.0
1931
Kept Husbands
Richard Brunton
5.3
1931
Once a Sinner
Tommy Mason
0.0
1931
Lightnin'
John Marvin
3.7
1930
The Silver Horde
Boyd Emerson
5.3
1930
Dynamite
Marco
6.3
1929
So This Is College
Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
4.2
1929
The Single Standard
Party Guest (uncredited)
6.2
1929
The Divine Lady
Extra (uncredited)
5.3
1928
Dead Man's Curve
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
0.0
1928
The Enemy
Extra (uncredited)
5.5
1927
The Fair Co-Ed
5.5
1927