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