Joel McCrea
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-11-05
Day of Death
1990-10-20 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
South Pasadena, California, USA
Joel McCrea
Biography
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2008)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
(2004)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
(1997)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
(1985)
(1982)
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1976)
Mustang Country
as Dan
(1973)
The Great American Cowboy
as Narrator
(1970)
Cry Blood Apache
as Pitcalin as an Older Man
(1970)
(1966)
(1962)
Ride the High Country
as Steve Judd
(1961)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1960)
The Crowning Experience
as Prologue Narrator
(1959)
The Gunfight at Dodge City
as Bat Masterson
(1958)
Fort Massacre
as Vinson
(1958)
Cattle Empire
as John Cord
(1957)
The Tall Stranger
as Ned Bannon
(1957)
Trooper Hook
as Sgt. Clovis Hook
(1957)
The Oklahoman
as John
(1957)
Gunsight Ridge
as Mike Ryan
(1956)
The First Texan
as Sam Houston
(1955)
Wichita
as Wyatt Earp
(1955)
Stranger on Horseback
as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
(1954)
Border River
as Clete Mattson
(1954)
Black Horse Canyon
as Del Rockwell
(1953)
The Lone Hand
as Zachary Hallock
(1953)
Rough Shoot
as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
(1952)
The San Francisco Story
as Rick Nelson
(1951)
Cattle Drive
as Dan Mathews
(1951)
Hollywood Story
as Joel McCrea
(1950)
Saddle Tramp
as Chuck Conner
(1950)
Stars in My Crown
as Josiah Doziah Gray
(1950)
Frenchie
as Sheriff Tom Banning
(1950)
The Outriders
as Will Owen
(1949)
Colorado Territory
as Wes McQueen
(1949)
South of St. Louis
as Kip Davis
(1948)
Four Faces West
as Ross McEwen
(1947)
Ramrod
as Dave Nash
(1946)
The Virginian
as The Virginian
(1945)
The Unseen
as David Fielding
(1944)
The Great Moment
as William Thomas Green Morton
(1944)
Buffalo Bill
as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
(1943)
The More the Merrier
as Joe Carter
(1943)
(1942)
The Palm Beach Story
as Tom Jeffers
(1941)
Sullivan's Travels
as John Sullivan
(1941)
The Great Man's Lady
as Mr. Sempler
(1941)
Reaching for the Sun
as Russ Eliot
(1940)
Foreign Correspondent
as John Jones
(1940)
Primrose Path
as Ed Wallace
(1940)
He Married His Wife
as T.H. Randall
(1940)
Breakdowns of 1940
as Self
(1939)
Union Pacific
as Jeff Butler
(1939)
They Shall Have Music
as Peter McCarthy
(1939)
Espionage Agent
as Barry Corvall
(1938)
Youth Takes a Fling
as Joe Meadows
(1938)
Three Blind Mice
as Van Dam Smith
(1937)
Dead End
as Dave
(1937)
Wells Fargo
as Ramsay MacKay
(1937)
Woman Chases Man
as Kenneth Nolan
(1937)
Internes Can't Take Money
as Jimmie Kildare
(1936)
Adventure in Manhattan
as George Melville
(1936)
These Three
as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
(1936)
Banjo on My Knee
as Ernie Holley
(1936)
Come and Get It
as Richard Glasgow
(1936)
Two in a Crowd
as Larry Stevens
(1935)
Woman Wanted
as Tony
(1935)
Barbary Coast
as Jim Carmichael
(1935)
Private Worlds
as Dr. Alex MacGregor
(1935)
Our Little Girl
as Donald Middleton
(1935)
Splendor
as Brighton Lorrimore
(1934)
The Richest Girl in the World
as Anthony Travers
(1934)
Gambling Lady
as Garry Madison
(1934)
Half a Sinner
as John Adams
(1933)
The Silver Cord
as David Phelps
(1933)
One Man's Journey
as Jimmy Watt
(1933)
Chance at Heaven
as Blacky Gorman
(1933)
Bed of Roses
as Dan
(1933)
Scarlet River
as Himself (uncredited)
(1932)
The Most Dangerous Game
as Robert Rainsford
(1932)
Bird of Paradise
as Johnny Baker
(1932)
The Lost Squadron
as Red
(1932)
The Sport Parade
as Sandy Brown
(1932)
Business and Pleasure
as Lawrence Ogle
(1932)
Rockabye
as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
(1931)
Born to Love
as Barry Craig
(1931)
Kept Husbands
as Richard Brunton
(1931)
The Common Law
as John 'Jack' Neville
(1931)
Girls About Town
as Jim Baker
(1931)
Once a Sinner
as Tommy Mason
(1930)
The Silver Horde
as Boyd Emerson
(1930)
Lightnin'
as John Marvin
(1930)
Framed
as Waiter (uncredited)
(1929)
The Single Standard
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1929)
Dynamite
as Marco
(1929)
So This Is College
as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
(1928)
The Divine Lady
as Extra (uncredited)
(1928)
Dead Man's Curve
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
(1927)
The Enemy
as Extra (uncredited)
(1927)
Crew
(1926)
Torrent
Stunts
(1924)
A Self-Made Failure
Stunts
(1923)
Penrod and Sam
Stunts