Joel McCrea

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1905-11-05

Deathday 1990-10-20 (84 years old)

Place of Birth South Pasadena, California, USA

Also Known As Joel Albert McCrea, Джоэл Маккри

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

2008
1997
1982
1976
1970
Cry Blood Apache

as Pitcalin as an Older Man

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
1959
Wichita Town

as Marshal Mike Dunbar

1958
Fort Massacre

as Vinson

1958
Cattle Empire

as John Cord

1957
The Tall Stranger

as Ned Bannon

1957
Gunsight Ridge

as Mike Ryan

1957
Trooper Hook

as Sgt. Clovis Hook

1957
1956
The First Texan

as Sam Houston

1955
Wichita

as Wyatt Earp

1955
Stranger on Horseback

as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne

1954
Black Horse Canyon

as Del Rockwell

1954
Border River

as Clete Mattson

1953
The Lone Hand

as Zachary Hallock

1953
Rough Shoot

as Lt. Col. Robert Taine

1952
1951
Cattle Drive

as Dan Mathews

1951
Hollywood Story

as Joel McCrea

1950
Frenchie

as Sheriff Tom Banning

1950
Saddle Tramp

as Chuck Conner

1950
Stars in My Crown

as Josiah Doziah Gray

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

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
1940
Foreign Correspondent

as John Jones

1940
Primrose Path

as Ed Wallace

1940
He Married His Wife

as T.H. Randall

1939
Espionage Agent

as Barry Corvall

1939
They Shall Have Music

as Peter McCarthy

1939
Union Pacific

as Jeff Butler

1938
Youth Takes a Fling

as Joe Meadows

1938
Three Blind Mice

as Van Dam Smith

1937
Wells Fargo

as Ramsay MacKay

1937
Dead End

as Dave

1937
Woman Chases Man

as Kenneth Nolan

1937
Internes Can't Take Money

as Jimmie Kildare

1936
Banjo on My Knee

as Ernie Holley

1936
Come and Get It

as Richard Glasgow

1936
Adventure in Manhattan

as George Melville

1936
Two in a Crowd

as Larry Stevens

1936
These Three

as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin

1935
Splendor

as Brighton Lorrimore

1935
Barbary Coast

as Jim Carmichael

1935
Woman Wanted

as Tony

1935
Private Worlds

as Dr. Alex MacGregor

1935
Our Little Girl

as Donald Middleton

1934
1934
Half a Sinner

as John Adams

1934
Gambling Lady

as Garry Madison

1933
Chance at Heaven

as Blacky Gorman

1933
One Man's Journey

as Jimmy Watt

1933
1933
The Silver Cord

as David Phelps

1933
Scarlet River

as Himself (uncredited)

1932
Rockabye

as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell

1932
The Sport Parade

as Sandy Brown

1932
The Most Dangerous Game

as Robert Rainsford

1932
Bird of Paradise

as Johnny Baker

1932
Business and Pleasure

as Lawrence Ogle

1931
Girls About Town

as Jim Baker

1931
The Common Law

as John 'Jack' Neville

1931
Born to Love

as Barry Craig

1931
Kept Husbands

as Richard Brunton

1931
Once a Sinner

as Tommy Mason

1930
Lightnin'

as John Marvin

1930
The Silver Horde

as Boyd Emerson

1929
Dynamite

as Marco

1929
So This Is College

as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)

1929
The Single Standard

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1928
The Divine Lady

as Extra (uncredited)

1928
Dead Man's Curve

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

1927
The Enemy

as Extra (uncredited)

Crew

1926
Torrent

as Stunts

1923
Penrod and Sam

as Stunts