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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Character:John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
Release Date:03/03/2008
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:25/07/2004
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:12/05/1997
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Character:Self
Release Date:03/03/1985
Night of 100 Stars
Character:Self
Release Date:08/03/1982
Mustang Country
Character:Dan
Release Date:29/03/1976
The Great American Cowboy
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/12/1973
Cry Blood Apache
Character:Pitcalin as an Older Man
Release Date:01/09/1970
Sioux Nation
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1970
The Young Rounders
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1966
Ride the High Country
Character:Steve Judd
Release Date:20/06/1962
The Crowning Experience
Character:Prologue Narrator
Release Date:22/10/1960
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Character:Bat Masterson
Release Date:01/05/1959
Fort Massacre
Character:Vinson
Release Date:14/05/1958
Cattle Empire
Character:John Cord
Release Date:01/04/1958
The Tall Stranger
Character:Ned Bannon
Release Date:17/11/1957
Gunsight Ridge
Character:Mike Ryan
Release Date:01/09/1957
Trooper Hook
Character:Sgt. Clovis Hook
Release Date:12/07/1957
The Oklahoman
Character:John
Release Date:19/05/1957
The First Texan
Character:Sam Houston
Release Date:29/06/1956
Wichita
Character:Wyatt Earp
Release Date:03/07/1955
Stranger on Horseback
Character:Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
Release Date:22/03/1955
Black Horse Canyon
Character:Del Rockwell
Release Date:01/06/1954
Border River
Character:Clete Mattson
Release Date:06/01/1954
The Lone Hand
Character:Zachary Hallock
Release Date:20/05/1953
Rough Shoot
Character:Lt. Col. Robert Taine
Release Date:30/03/1953
The San Francisco Story
Character:Rick Nelson
Release Date:11/05/1952
Cattle Drive
Character:Dan Mathews
Release Date:01/08/1951
Hollywood Story
Character:Joel McCrea
Release Date:01/06/1951
Frenchie
Character:Sheriff Tom Banning
Release Date:25/12/1950
Saddle Tramp
Character:Chuck Conner
Release Date:21/09/1950
Stars in My Crown
Character:Josiah Doziah Gray
Release Date:11/05/1950
The Outriders
Character:Will Owen
Release Date:01/03/1950
Colorado Territory
Character:Wes McQueen
Release Date:11/06/1949
South of St. Louis
Character:Kip Davis
Release Date:06/03/1949
Four Faces West
Character:Ross McEwen
Release Date:03/08/1948
Ramrod
Character:Dave Nash
Release Date:02/05/1947
The Virginian
Character:The Virginian
Release Date:05/05/1946
The Unseen
Character:David Fielding
Release Date:12/05/1945
The Great Moment
Character:William Thomas Green Morton
Release Date:18/07/1944
Buffalo Bill
Character:William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Release Date:02/04/1944
The More the Merrier
Character:Joe Carter
Release Date:13/05/1943
Stars on Horseback
Character:
Release Date:23/04/1943
The Palm Beach Story
Character:Tom Jeffers
Release Date:28/08/1942
Sullivan's Travels
Character:John Sullivan
Release Date:30/11/1941
The Great Man's Lady
Character:Mr. Sempler
Release Date:31/10/1941
Reaching for the Sun
Character:Russ Eliot
Release Date:01/05/1941
Breakdowns of 1940
Character:Self
Release Date:31/12/1940
Foreign Correspondent
Character:John Jones
Release Date:16/08/1940
Primrose Path
Character:Ed Wallace
Release Date:22/03/1940
He Married His Wife
Character:T.H. Randall
Release Date:19/01/1940
Espionage Agent
Character:Barry Corvall
Release Date:30/09/1939
They Shall Have Music
Character:Peter McCarthy
Release Date:18/08/1939
Union Pacific
Character:Jeff Butler
Release Date:05/05/1939
Youth Takes a Fling
Character:Joe Meadows
Release Date:22/09/1938
Three Blind Mice
Character:Van Dam Smith
Release Date:18/06/1938
Wells Fargo
Character:Ramsay MacKay
Release Date:31/12/1937
Dead End
Character:Dave
Release Date:27/08/1937
Woman Chases Man
Character:Kenneth Nolan
Release Date:07/05/1937
Internes Can't Take Money
Character:Jimmie Kildare
Release Date:16/04/1937
Banjo on My Knee
Character:Ernie Holley
Release Date:11/12/1936
Come and Get It
Character:Richard Glasgow
Release Date:06/11/1936
Adventure in Manhattan
Character:George Melville
Release Date:08/10/1936
Two in a Crowd
Character:Larry Stevens
Release Date:03/10/1936
These Three
Character:Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
Release Date:18/03/1936
Splendor
Character:Brighton Lorrimore
Release Date:22/11/1935
Barbary Coast
Character:Jim Carmichael
Release Date:13/10/1935
Woman Wanted
Character:Tony
Release Date:02/08/1935
Private Worlds
Character:Dr. Alex MacGregor
Release Date:19/04/1935
Our Little Girl
Character:Donald Middleton
Release Date:01/01/1935
The Richest Girl in the World
Character:Anthony Travers
Release Date:21/09/1934
Half a Sinner
Character:John Adams
Release Date:01/06/1934
Gambling Lady
Character:Garry Madison
Release Date:08/03/1934
Chance at Heaven
Character:Blacky Gorman
Release Date:27/10/1933
One Man's Journey
Character:Jimmy Watt
Release Date:31/08/1933
Bed of Roses
Character:Dan
Release Date:29/06/1933
The Silver Cord
Character:David Phelps
Release Date:05/05/1933
Scarlet River
Character:Himself (uncredited)
Release Date:10/03/1933
Rockabye
Character:Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
Release Date:25/11/1932
The Sport Parade
Character:Sandy Brown
Release Date:11/11/1932
The Most Dangerous Game
Character:Robert Rainsford
Release Date:16/09/1932
Bird of Paradise
Character:Johnny Baker
Release Date:12/08/1932
The Lost Squadron
Character:Red
Release Date:12/03/1932
Business and Pleasure
Character:Lawrence Ogle
Release Date:24/02/1932
Girls About Town
Character:Jim Baker
Release Date:07/11/1931
The Common Law
Character:John 'Jack' Neville
Release Date:17/07/1931
Born to Love
Character:Barry Craig
Release Date:17/04/1931
Kept Husbands
Character:Richard 'Dick' Brunton
Release Date:22/02/1931
Once a Sinner
Character:Tommy Mason
Release Date:25/01/1931
Lightnin'
Character:John Marvin
Release Date:28/11/1930
The Silver Horde
Character:Boyd Emerson
Release Date:24/10/1930
Framed
Character:Waiter (uncredited)
Release Date:16/03/1930
Dynamite
Character:Marco
Release Date:13/12/1929
So This Is College
Character:Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
Release Date:08/11/1929
The Single Standard
Character:Party Guest (uncredited)
Release Date:27/07/1929
The Jazz Age
Character:Todd Sayles
Release Date:06/01/1929
The Divine Lady
Character:Extra (uncredited)
Release Date:26/12/1928
Dead Man's Curve
Character:Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Release Date:15/01/1928
The Enemy
Character:Extra (uncredited)
Release Date:08/12/1927
The Fair Co-Ed
Character:
Release Date:22/10/1927
Television Appearances
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