Joel McCrea
97 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 5, 1905
- Died
- Oct 20, 1990 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- South Pasadena, California, USA
- Also known as
- Joel Albert McCrea · Джоэл Маккри
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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Joel McCrea: movies and TV shows
Acting (95)
- 2008 Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
- 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
- 1960 The Crowning Experience
as Prologue Narrator
- 1959
- 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 Gunsight Ridge
as Mike Ryan
- 1957 Trooper Hook
as Sgt. Clovis Hook
- 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 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 The San Francisco Story
as Rick Nelson
- 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
- 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 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 Our Little Girl
as Donald Middleton
- 1935 Private Worlds
as Dr. Alex MacGregor
- 1934 The Richest Girl in the World
as Anthony Travers
- 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 Bed of Roses
as Dan
- 1933 The Silver Cord
as David Phelps
- 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 The Lost Squadron
as Red
- 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 'Dick' Brunton
- 1931 Once a Sinner
as Tommy Mason
- 1930 Lightnin'
as John Marvin
- 1930 The Silver Horde
as Boyd Emerson
- 1930 Framed
as Waiter (uncredited)
- 1929 Dynamite
as Marco
- 1929 So This Is College
as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
- 1929 The Single Standard
as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1929 The Jazz Age
as Todd Sayles
- 1928 The Divine Lady
as Extra (uncredited)
- 1928 Dead Man's Curve
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- 1927 The Enemy
as Extra (uncredited)
- 1927
Behind the camera (3)
- 1926 Torrent
Stunts
- 1924 A Self-Made Failure
Stunts
- 1923 Penrod and Sam
Stunts
Talk shows and appearances (8)
- 2004
- 1997
- 1985
- 1982
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1 episode
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1 episode
- 1940
- 1933