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)
Gunsight Ridge
as Mike Ryan
(1957)
The Oklahoman
as John
(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)
Stars in My Crown
as Josiah Doziah Gray
(1950)
The Outriders
as Will Owen
(1950)
Frenchie
as Sheriff Tom Banning
(1950)
Saddle Tramp
as Chuck Conner
(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)
Buffalo Bill
as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
(1944)
The Great Moment
as William Thomas Green Morton
(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)
Breakdowns of 1940
as Self
(1940)
He Married His Wife
as T.H. Randall
(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)
Internes Can't Take Money
as Jimmie Kildare
(1937)
Woman Chases Man
as Kenneth Nolan
(1936)
Come and Get It
as Richard Glasgow
(1936)
These Three
as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
(1936)
Adventure in Manhattan
as George Melville
(1936)
Two in a Crowd
as Larry Stevens
(1936)
Banjo on My Knee
as Ernie Holley
(1935)
Barbary Coast
as Jim Carmichael
(1935)
Our Little Girl
as Donald Middleton
(1935)
Private Worlds
as Dr. Alex MacGregor
(1935)
Woman Wanted
as Tony
(1935)
Splendor
as Brighton Lorrimore
(1934)
The Richest Girl in the World
as Anthony Travers
(1934)
Half a Sinner
as John Adams
(1934)
Gambling Lady
as Garry Madison
(1933)
Scarlet River
as Himself (uncredited)
(1933)
The Silver Cord
as David Phelps
(1933)
Bed of Roses
as Dan
(1933)
One Man's Journey
as Jimmy Watt
(1933)
Chance at Heaven
as Blacky Gorman
(1932)
The Most Dangerous Game
as Robert Rainsford
(1932)
Bird of Paradise
as Johnny Baker
(1932)
Rockabye
as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
(1932)
The Lost Squadron
as Red
(1932)
Business and Pleasure
as Lawrence Ogle
(1932)
The Sport Parade
as Sandy Brown
(1931)
Kept Husbands
as Richard Brunton
(1931)
The Common Law
as John 'Jack' Neville
(1931)
Born to Love
as Barry Craig
(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
(1929)
The Single Standard
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1929)
Dynamite
as Marco
(1929)
So This Is College
as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
(1928)
Dead Man's Curve
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
(1928)
The Divine Lady
as Extra (uncredited)
(1927)
The Enemy
as Extra (uncredited)
(1927)
Crew
(1926)
Torrent
Stunts
(1923)
Penrod and Sam
Stunts