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