Joel McCrea
Acting
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
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movieThou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
movieSam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Self (archive footage)
movieBarbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
Self (archive footage)
movieCry Blood Apache
1970
Pitcalin as an Older Man
movieRide the High Country
1962
Steve Judd
movieThe Crowning Experience
1960
Prologue Narrator
tvWichita Town
1959
Marshal Mike Dunbar
movieThe Gunfight at Dodge City
1959
Bat Masterson
movieFort Massacre
1958
Vinson
movieCattle Empire
1958
John Cord
movieThe Tall Stranger
1957
Ned Bannon
movieGunsight Ridge
1957
Mike Ryan
movieTrooper Hook
1957
Sgt. Clovis Hook
movieThe First Texan
1956
Sam Houston
movieWichita
1955
Wyatt Earp
movieStranger on Horseback
1955
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
movieBlack Horse Canyon
1954
Del Rockwell
movieBorder River
1954
Clete Mattson
movieThe Lone Hand
1953
Zachary Hallock
movieRough Shoot
1953
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
movieThe San Francisco Story
1952
Rick Nelson
movieCattle Drive
1951
Dan Mathews
movieHollywood Story
1951
Joel McCrea
movieFrenchie
1950
Sheriff Tom Banning
movieSaddle Tramp
1950
Chuck Conner
movieStars in My Crown
1950
Josiah Doziah Gray
movieThe Outriders
1950
Will Owen
movieColorado Territory
1949
Wes McQueen
movieSouth of St. Louis
1949
Kip Davis
movieFour Faces West
1948
Ross McEwen
movieRamrod
1947
Dave Nash
movieThe Virginian
1946
The Virginian
movieThe Unseen
1945
David Fielding
movieThe Great Moment
1944
William Thomas Green Morton
movieBuffalo Bill
1944
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
movieThe More the Merrier
1943
Joe Carter
movieThe Palm Beach Story
1942
Tom Jeffers
movieSullivan's Travels
1941
John Sullivan
movieThe Great Man's Lady
1941
Mr. Sempler
movieReaching for the Sun
1941
Russ Eliot
movieForeign Correspondent
1940
John Jones
moviePrimrose Path
1940
Ed Wallace
movieHe Married His Wife
1940
T.H. Randall
movieEspionage Agent
1939
Barry Corvall
movieThey Shall Have Music
1939
Peter McCarthy
movieUnion Pacific
1939
Jeff Butler
movieYouth Takes a Fling
1938
Joe Meadows
movieThree Blind Mice
1938
Van Dam Smith
movieWells Fargo
1937
Ramsay MacKay
movieWoman Chases Man
1937
Kenneth Nolan
movieInternes Can't Take Money
1937
Jimmie Kildare
movieBanjo on My Knee
1936
Ernie Holley
movieCome and Get It
1936
Richard Glasgow
movieAdventure in Manhattan
1936
George Melville
movieTwo in a Crowd
1936
Larry Stevens
movieThese Three
1936
Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
movieSplendor
1935
Brighton Lorrimore
movieBarbary Coast
1935
Jim Carmichael
movieOur Little Girl
1935
Donald Middleton
moviePrivate Worlds
1935
Dr. Alex MacGregor
movieThe Richest Girl in the World
1934
Anthony Travers
movieHalf a Sinner
1934
John Adams
movieGambling Lady
1934
Garry Madison
movieChance at Heaven
1933
Blacky Gorman
movieOne Man's Journey
1933
Jimmy Watt
movieThe Silver Cord
1933
David Phelps
movieScarlet River
1933
Himself (uncredited)
movieRockabye
1932
Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
movieThe Sport Parade
1932
Sandy Brown
movieThe Most Dangerous Game
1932
Robert Rainsford
movieBird of Paradise
1932
Johnny Baker
movieBusiness and Pleasure
1932
Lawrence Ogle
movieGirls About Town
1931
Jim Baker
movieThe Common Law
1931
John 'Jack' Neville
movieBorn to Love
1931
Barry Craig
movieKept Husbands
1931
Richard 'Dick' Brunton
movieOnce a Sinner
1931
Tommy Mason
movieLightnin'
1930
John Marvin
movieThe Silver Horde
1930
Boyd Emerson
movieFramed
1930
Waiter (uncredited)
movieDynamite
1929
Marco
movieSo This Is College
1929
Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
movieThe Single Standard
1929
Party Guest (uncredited)
movieThe Jazz Age
1929
Todd Sayles
movieThe Divine Lady
1928
Extra (uncredited)
movieDead Man's Curve
1928
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
movieThe Enemy
1927
Extra (uncredited)
