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