Joel McCrea
Known for: Acting
Born: November 5, 1905
Died: October 20, 1990
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
103 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
6.1
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
8.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
7.7
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
5.8
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
5.8
Night of 100 Stars
1982
5.5
Mustang Country
1976
6.6
The Great American Cowboy
1973
2.5
Cry Blood Apache
1970
7.8
Sioux Nation
1970
7.0
The Young Rounders
1966
6.8
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
7.1
Ride the High Country
1962
6.5
The Crowning Experience
1960
4.9
Wichita Town
1959
5.7
The Gunfight at Dodge City
1959
6.2
Fort Massacre
1958
6.2
Cattle Empire
1958
6.5
The Tall Stranger
1957
6.0
Gunsight Ridge
1957
6.7
Trooper Hook
1957
5.8
The Oklahoman
1957
6.7
The First Texan
1956
6.3
Wichita
1955
5.8
Stranger on Horseback
1955
5.8
Black Horse Canyon
1954
6.2
Border River
1954
5.7
The Lone Hand
1953
6.7
Rough Shoot
1953
4.9
The San Francisco Story
1952
6.5
Cattle Drive
1951
6.7
Hollywood Story
1951
6.0
Frenchie
1950
6.5
Saddle Tramp
1950
7.0
Stars in My Crown
1950
7.2
The Outriders
1950
7.0
Colorado Territory
1949
5.8
South of St. Louis
1949
5.8
Four Faces West
1948
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
6.5
Ramrod
1947
6.2
The Virginian
1946
4.7
The Unseen
1945
5.9
The Great Moment
1944
5.8
Buffalo Bill
1944
7.0
The More the Merrier
1943
5.0
Stars on Horseback
1943
7.0
The Palm Beach Story
1942
7.4
Sullivan's Travels
1941
6.3
The Great Man's Lady
1941
7.3
Reaching for the Sun
1941
4.0
Breakdowns of 1940
1940
7.0
Foreign Correspondent
1940
6.7
Primrose Path
1940
5.6
He Married His Wife
1940
6.3
Espionage Agent
1939
6.5
They Shall Have Music
1939
6.7
Union Pacific
1939
5.5
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
6.1
Three Blind Mice
1938
5.5
Wells Fargo
1937
7.0
Dead End
1937
5.9
Woman Chases Man
1937
6.5
Internes Can't Take Money
1937
5.8
Banjo on My Knee
1936
6.8
Come and Get It
1936
6.1
Adventure in Manhattan
1936
8.0
Two in a Crowd
1936
7.1
These Three
1936
6.7
Splendor
1935
6.4
Barbary Coast
1935
6.8
Woman Wanted
1935
5.2
Our Little Girl
1935
6.4
Private Worlds
1935
5.8
The Richest Girl in the World
1934
8.0
Half a Sinner
1934
6.2
Gambling Lady
1934
5.8
Chance at Heaven
1933
6.7
One Man's Journey
1933
6.1
Bed of Roses
1933
7.3
The Silver Cord
1933
5.6
Scarlet River
1933
6.5
Rockabye
1932
5.3
The Sport Parade
1932
6.9
The Most Dangerous Game
1932
5.1
Bird of Paradise
1932
6.5
The Lost Squadron
1932
6.3
Business and Pleasure
1932
6.6
Girls About Town
1931
5.4
The Common Law
1931
5.3
Born to Love
1931
5.3
Kept Husbands
1931
8.0
Once a Sinner
1931
5.3
Lightnin'
1930
5.6
The Silver Horde
1930
5.3
Framed
1930
6.4
Dynamite
1929
4.7
So This Is College
1929
5.8
The Single Standard
1929
8.0
The Jazz Age
1929
5.3
The Divine Lady
1928
9.0
Dead Man's Curve
1928
6.3
The Enemy
1927
6.7
The Fair Co-Ed
1927
6.7
Torrent
192610.0
A Self-Made Failure
1924
7.5
Penrod and Sam
1923