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