Joel McCrea
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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
Credits
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
as John Jones
Kept Husbands (1931)
as Richard 'Dick' Brunton
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
as Robert Rainsford
The Young Rounders (1966)
Actor
The Oklahoman (1957)
as John
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
as John Sullivan
Dead End (1937)
as Dave
Ride the High Country (1962)
as Steve Judd
Chance at Heaven (1933)
as Blacky Gorman
The Virginian (1946)
as The Virginian
The Tall Stranger (1957)
as Ned Bannon
The More the Merrier (1943)
as Joe Carter
Half a Sinner (1934)
as John Adams
Union Pacific (1939)
as Jeff Butler
Colorado Territory (1949)
as Wes McQueen
Wichita (1955)
as Wyatt Earp
So This Is College (1929)
as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
Border River (1954)
as Clete Mattson
Stars in My Crown (1950)
as Josiah Doziah Gray
These Three (1936)
as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
The Outriders (1950)
as Will Owen
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
as Tom Jeffers
Four Faces West (1948)
as Ross McEwen
He Married His Wife (1940)
as T.H. Randall
The Great Man's Lady (1941)
as Mr. Sempler
Fort Massacre (1958)
as Vinson
Girls About Town (1931)
as Jim Baker
Primrose Path (1940)
as Ed Wallace
Saddle Tramp (1950)
as Chuck Conner
The First Texan (1956)
as Sam Houston
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Hollywood Story (1951)
as Joel McCrea
Come and Get It (1936)
as Richard Glasgow
Bird of Paradise (1932)
as Johnny Baker
Ramrod (1947)
as Dave Nash
Stranger on Horseback (1955)
as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
Cattle Drive (1951)
as Dan Mathews
Wells Fargo (1937)
as Ramsay MacKay
Cry Blood Apache (1970)
as Pitcalin as an Older Man
The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
as Bat Masterson
Business and Pleasure (1932)
as Lawrence Ogle
Once a Sinner (1931)
as Tommy Mason
Bed of Roses (1933)
as Dan
Espionage Agent (1939)
as Barry Corvall
Barbary Coast (1935)
as Jim Carmichael
Mustang Country (1976)
as Dan
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
as George Melville
Buffalo Bill (1944)
as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
The Single Standard (1929)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Unseen (1945)
as David Fielding
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
They Shall Have Music (1939)
as Peter McCarthy
Born to Love (1931)
as Barry Craig
Frenchie (1950)
as Sheriff Tom Banning
The Great Moment (1944)
as William Thomas Green Morton
The Common Law (1931)
as John 'Jack' Neville
Black Horse Canyon (1954)
as Del Rockwell
Our Little Girl (1935)
as Donald Middleton
Dead Man's Curve (1928)
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Trooper Hook (1957)
as Sgt. Clovis Hook
Private Worlds (1935)
as Dr. Alex MacGregor
The Lost Squadron (1932)
as Red
The San Francisco Story (1952)
as Rick Nelson
The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
as Anthony Travers
Two in a Crowd (1936)
as Larry Stevens
The Lone Hand (1953)
as Zachary Hallock
Banjo on My Knee (1936)
as Ernie Holley
Gambling Lady (1934)
as Garry Madison
The Divine Lady (1928)
as Extra (uncredited)
Reaching for the Sun (1941)
as Russ Eliot
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
South of St. Louis (1949)
as Kip Davis
Rough Shoot (1953)
as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
Woman Chases Man (1937)
as Kenneth Nolan
Gunsight Ridge (1957)
as Mike Ryan
The Sport Parade (1932)
as Sandy Brown
Cattle Empire (1958)
as John Cord
Three Blind Mice (1938)
as Van Dam Smith
Rockabye (1932)
as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
as Jimmie Kildare
Splendor (1935)
as Brighton Lorrimore
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)
as Self
Woman Wanted (1935)
as Tony
Scarlet River (1933)
as Himself (uncredited)
Sioux Nation (1970)
Actor
The Silver Horde (1930)
as Boyd Emerson
Dynamite (1929)
as Marco
The Enemy (1927)
as Extra (uncredited)
One Man's Journey (1933)
as Jimmy Watt
Breakdowns of 1940 (1940)
as Self
The Silver Cord (1933)
as David Phelps
The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
Actor
The Great American Cowboy (1973)
as Narrator
The Jazz Age (1929)
as Todd Sayles
Stars on Horseback (1943)
Actor
Lightnin' (1930)
as John Marvin
Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
as Joe Meadows
Framed (1930)
as Waiter (uncredited)
The Crowning Experience (1960)
as Prologue Narrator