Joel McCrea
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Nov 5, 1905 (120 years old)
Place of Birth
South Pasadena, California, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code HollywoodJohn Neville Jr. (archive footage) | |
| 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood RenegadeSelf (archive footage) | |
| 1997 | Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the LineSelf (archive footage) | |
| 1985 | George Stevens: A Filmmaker's JourneySelf | |
| 1982 | Night of 100 StarsSelf | |
| 1976 | Mustang CountryDan | |
| 1973 | The Great American CowboyNarrator | |
| 1970 | Cry Blood ApachePitcalin as an Older Man | |
| 1970 | Sioux Nation | |
| 1966 | The Young Rounders | |
| 1962 | Ride the High CountrySteve Judd | |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin ShowSelf | |
| 1960 | The Crowning ExperiencePrologue Narrator | |
| 1959 | The Gunfight at Dodge CityBat Masterson | |
| 1959 | Wichita TownMarshal Mike Dunbar | |
| 1958 | Fort MassacreVinson | |
| 1958 | Cattle EmpireJohn Cord | |
| 1957 | The OklahomanJohn | |
| 1957 | Trooper HookSgt. Clovis Hook | |
| 1957 | The Tall StrangerNed Bannon | |
| 1957 | Gunsight RidgeMike Ryan | |
| 1956 | The First TexanSam Houston | |
| 1955 | Stranger on HorsebackJudge Richard 'Rick' Thorne | |
| 1955 | WichitaWyatt Earp | |
| 1954 | Border RiverClete Mattson | |
| 1954 | Black Horse CanyonDel Rockwell | |
| 1953 | Rough ShootLt. Col. Robert Taine | |
| 1953 | The Lone HandZachary Hallock | |
| 1952 | The San Francisco StoryRick Nelson | |
| 1951 | Hollywood StoryJoel McCrea | |
| 1951 | Cattle DriveDan Mathews | |
| 1950 | Stars in My CrownJosiah Doziah Gray | |
| 1950 | Saddle TrampChuck Conner | |
| 1950 | The OutridersWill Owen | |
| 1950 | FrenchieSheriff Tom Banning | |
| 1949 | Colorado TerritoryWes McQueen | |
| 1949 | South of St. LouisKip Davis | |
| 1948 | Four Faces WestRoss McEwen | |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan ShowSelf | |
| 1947 | RamrodDave Nash | |
| 1946 | The VirginianThe Virginian | |
| 1945 | The UnseenDavid Fielding | |
| 1944 | The Great MomentWilliam Thomas Green Morton | |
| 1944 | Buffalo BillWilliam Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody | |
| 1943 | The More the MerrierJoe Carter | |
| 1943 | Stars on Horseback | |
| 1942 | The Palm Beach StoryTom Jeffers | |
| 1941 | Sullivan's TravelsJohn Sullivan | |
| 1941 | The Great Man's LadyMr. Sempler | |
| 1941 | Reaching for the SunRuss Eliot | |
| 1940 | Foreign CorrespondentJohn Jones | |
| 1940 | Primrose PathEd Wallace | |
| 1940 | He Married His WifeT.H. Randall | |
| 1940 | Breakdowns of 1940Self | |
| 1939 | Union PacificJeff Butler | |
| 1939 | Espionage AgentBarry Corvall | |
| 1939 | They Shall Have MusicPeter McCarthy | |
| 1938 | Three Blind MiceVan Dam Smith | |
| 1938 | Youth Takes a FlingJoe Meadows | |
| 1937 | Dead EndDave | |
| 1937 | Internes Can't Take MoneyJimmie Kildare | |
| 1937 | Woman Chases ManKenneth Nolan | |
| 1937 | Wells FargoRamsay MacKay | |
| 1936 | These ThreeDr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin | |
| 1936 | Come and Get ItRichard Glasgow | |
| 1936 | Adventure in ManhattanGeorge Melville | |
| 1936 | Banjo on My KneeErnie Holley | |
| 1936 | Two in a CrowdLarry Stevens | |
| 1935 | Barbary CoastJim Carmichael | |
| 1935 | Private WorldsDr. Alex MacGregor | |
| 1935 | SplendorBrighton Lorrimore | |
| 1935 | Woman WantedTony | |
| 1935 | Our Little GirlDonald Middleton | |
| 1934 | The Richest Girl in the WorldAnthony Travers | |
| 1934 | Gambling LadyGarry Madison | |
| 1934 | Half a SinnerJohn Adams | |
| 1933 | The Silver CordDavid Phelps | |
| 1933 | Chance at HeavenBlacky Gorman | |
| 1933 | Bed of RosesDan | |
| 1933 | One Man's JourneyJimmy Watt | |
| 1933 | Scarlet RiverHimself (uncredited) | |
| 1932 | The Most Dangerous GameRobert Rainsford | |
| 1932 | Bird of ParadiseJohnny Baker | |
| 1932 | The Lost SquadronRed | |
| 1932 | RockabyeJacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell | |
| 1932 | The Sport ParadeSandy Brown | |
| 1932 | Business and PleasureLawrence Ogle | |
| 1931 | Girls About TownJim Baker | |
| 1931 | Kept HusbandsRichard 'Dick' Brunton | |
| 1931 | Born to LoveBarry Craig | |
| 1931 | The Common LawJohn 'Jack' Neville | |
| 1931 | Once a SinnerTommy Mason | |
| 1930 | The Silver HordeBoyd Emerson | |
| 1930 | Lightnin'John Marvin | |
| 1930 | FramedWaiter (uncredited) | |
| 1929 | DynamiteMarco | |
| 1929 | So This Is CollegeBruce Nolan (uncredited) | |
| 1929 | The Single StandardParty Guest (uncredited) | |
| 1929 | The Jazz AgeTodd Sayles | |
| 1928 | Dead Man's CurveUndetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) | |
| 1928 | The Divine LadyExtra (uncredited) | |
| 1927 | The Fair Co-Ed | |
| 1927 | The EnemyExtra (uncredited) |
| 1926 | TorrentStunts | |
| 1924 | A Self-Made FailureStunts | |
| 1923 | Penrod and SamStunts |