Joel McCrea

Birthday: 1905-11-05
Deathday: 1990-10-20
Birthplace: South Pasadena, California, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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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Credits

Year Title Character
1976-03-29 Mustang Country Dan
1970-09-01 Cry Blood Apache Pitcalin as an Older Man
1970-01-01 Sioux Nation
1966-01-01 The Young Rounders
1962-06-20 Ride the High Country Steve Judd
1959-05-01 The Gunfight at Dodge City Bat Masterson
1958-05-14 Fort Massacre Vinson
1958-04-01 Cattle Empire John Cord
1957-11-17 The Tall Stranger Ned Bannon
1957-09-01 Gunsight Ridge Mike Ryan
1957-07-12 Trooper Hook Sgt. Clovis Hook
1957-05-19 The Oklahoman John
1956-06-29 The First Texan Sam Houston
1955-07-03 Wichita Wyatt Earp
1955-03-22 Stranger on Horseback Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
1954-06-01 Black Horse Canyon Del Rockwell
1954-01-06 Border River Clete Mattson
1953-05-20 The Lone Hand Zachary Hallock
1953-03-30 Rough Shoot Lt. Col. Robert Taine
1952-05-11 The San Francisco Story Rick Nelson
1951-08-01 Cattle Drive Dan Mathews
1951-06-01 Hollywood Story Joel McCrea
1950-12-25 Frenchie Sheriff Tom Banning
1950-09-21 Saddle Tramp Chuck Conner
1950-05-11 Stars in My Crown Josiah Doziah Gray
1950-03-01 The Outriders Will Owen
1949-06-11 Colorado Territory Wes McQueen
1949-03-06 South of St. Louis Kip Davis
1948-08-03 Four Faces West Ross McEwen
1947-05-02 Ramrod Dave Nash
1946-05-05 The Virginian The Virginian
1945-05-12 The Unseen David Fielding
1944-07-18 The Great Moment William Thomas Green Morton
1944-04-02 Buffalo Bill William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
1943-05-13 The More the Merrier Joe Carter
1943-04-23 Stars on Horseback
1942-08-28 The Palm Beach Story Tom Jeffers
1942-04-15 The Great Man's Lady Mr. Sempler
1941-11-30 Sullivan's Travels John Sullivan
1941-05-01 Reaching for the Sun Russ Eliot
1940-08-16 Foreign Correspondent John Jones
1940-03-22 Primrose Path Ed Wallace
1940-01-19 He Married His Wife T.H. Randall
1939-09-30 Espionage Agent Barry Corvall
1939-08-18 They Shall Have Music Peter McCarthy
1939-05-05 Union Pacific Jeff Butler
1938-09-22 Youth Takes a Fling Joe Meadows
1938-06-18 Three Blind Mice Van Dam Smith
1937-12-31 Wells Fargo Ramsay MacKay
1937-08-27 Dead End Dave
1937-05-07 Woman Chases Man Kenneth Nolan
1937-04-16 Internes Can't Take Money Jimmie Kildare
1936-12-11 Banjo on My Knee Ernie Holley
1936-11-06 Come and Get It Richard Glasgow
1936-10-08 Adventure in Manhattan George Melville
1936-10-03 Two in a Crowd Larry Stevens
1936-03-18 These Three Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
1935-11-22 Splendor Brighton Lorrimore
1935-10-13 Barbary Coast Jim Carmichael
1935-08-02 Woman Wanted Tony
1935-04-19 Private Worlds Dr. Alex MacGregor
1935-01-01 Our Little Girl Donald Middleton
1934-09-21 The Richest Girl in the World Anthony Travers
1934-06-01 Half a Sinner John Adams
1934-03-08 Gambling Lady Garry Madison
1933-10-27 Chance at Heaven Blacky Gorman
1933-08-31 One Man's Journey Jimmy Watt
1933-06-29 Bed of Roses Dan
1933-05-05 The Silver Cord David Phelps
1932-11-25 Rockabye Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
1932-11-11 The Sport Parade Sandy Brown
1932-09-16 The Most Dangerous Game Robert Rainsford
1932-08-12 Bird of Paradise Johnny Baker
1932-03-12 The Lost Squadron Red
1932-02-24 Business and Pleasure Lawrence Ogle
1931-11-07 Girls About Town Jim Baker
1931-07-17 The Common Law John 'Jack' Neville
1931-04-17 Born to Love Barry Craig
1931-02-22 Kept Husbands Richard Brunton
1931-01-25 Once a Sinner Tommy Mason
1930-11-28 Lightnin' John Marvin
1930-10-24 The Silver Horde Boyd Emerson
1929-12-13 Dynamite Marco
1929-11-08 So This Is College Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
1929-07-27 The Single Standard Party Guest (uncredited)
1928-12-26 The Divine Lady Extra (uncredited)
1928-01-15 Dead Man's Curve Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1927-12-08 The Enemy Extra (uncredited)
1927-10-22 The Fair Co-Ed