Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 05, 1905
Died
Oct 20, 1990
Place of Birth
South Pasadena, California, USA
Credits
106 titles
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
Filmography
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Mustang Country
Dan
The Great American Cowboy
Narrator
Cry Blood Apache
Pitcalin as an Older Man
Sioux Nation
The Young Rounders
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Ride the High Country
Steve Judd
The Crowning Experience
Prologue Narrator
Wichita Town
Marshal Mike Dunbar
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Bat Masterson
Fort Massacre
Vinson
Cattle Empire
John Cord
The Tall Stranger
Ned Bannon
Gunsight Ridge
Mike Ryan
Trooper Hook
Sgt. Clovis Hook
The Oklahoman
John
The First Texan
Sam Houston
Wichita
Wyatt Earp
Stranger on Horseback
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
Black Horse Canyon
Del Rockwell
Border River
Clete Mattson
The Lone Hand
Zachary Hallock
Rough Shoot
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
The San Francisco Story
Rick Nelson
Cattle Drive
Dan Mathews
Hollywood Story
Joel McCrea
Frenchie
Sheriff Tom Banning
Saddle Tramp
Chuck Conner
Stars in My Crown
Josiah Doziah Gray
The Outriders
Will Owen
Colorado Territory
Wes McQueen
South of St. Louis
Kip Davis
Four Faces West
Ross McEwen
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Ramrod
Dave Nash
The Virginian
The Virginian
The Unseen
David Fielding
The Great Moment
William Thomas Green Morton
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
The More the Merrier
Joe Carter
Stars on Horseback
The Palm Beach Story
Tom Jeffers
Sullivan's Travels
John Sullivan
The Great Man's Lady
Mr. Sempler
Reaching for the Sun
Russ Eliot