- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- November 5, 1905
- Place of Birth
- South Pasadena, California, USA
- Died
- October 20, 1990
Joel McCrea
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 Peckinpa…
Filmography
movieThou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008 · John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
movieSam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Self (archive footage)
movieBarbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997 · Self (archive footage)
movieGeorge Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985 · Self
movieNight of 100 Stars
1982 · Self
movieMustang Country
1976 · Dan
movieThe Great American Cowboy
1973 · Narrator
movieCry Blood Apache
1970 · Pitcalin as an Older Man
movieSioux Nation
1970
movieThe Young Rounders
1966
tvThe Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
movieRide the High Country
1962 · Steve Judd
movieThe Crowning Experience
1960 · Prologue Narrator
tvWichita Town
1959 · Marshal Mike Dunbar
movieThe Gunfight at Dodge City
1959 · Bat Masterson
movieFort Massacre
1958 · Vinson
movieCattle Empire
1958 · John Cord
movieThe Tall Stranger
1957 · Ned Bannon
movieGunsight Ridge
1957 · Mike Ryan
movieTrooper Hook
1957 · Sgt. Clovis Hook
movieThe Oklahoman
1957 · John
movieThe First Texan
1956 · Sam Houston
movieWichita
1955 · Wyatt Earp
movieStranger on Horseback
1955 · Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
movieBlack Horse Canyon
1954 · Del Rockwell
movieBorder River
1954 · Clete Mattson
movieThe Lone Hand
1953 · Zachary Hallock
movieRough Shoot
1953 · Lt. Col. Robert Taine
movieThe San Francisco Story
1952 · Rick Nelson
movieCattle Drive
1951 · Dan Mathews
movieHollywood Story
1951 · Joel McCrea
movieFrenchie
1950 · Sheriff Tom Banning
movieSaddle Tramp
1950 · Chuck Conner
movieStars in My Crown
1950 · Josiah Doziah Gray
movieThe Outriders
1950 · Will Owen
movieColorado Territory
1949 · Wes McQueen
movieSouth of St. Louis
1949 · Kip Davis
movieFour Faces West
1948 · Ross McEwen
tvThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
movieRamrod
1947 · Dave Nash
movieThe Virginian
1946 · The Virginian
movieThe Unseen
1945 · David Fielding
movieThe Great Moment
1944 · William Thomas Green Morton
movieBuffalo Bill
1944 · William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
movieThe More the Merrier
1943 · Joe Carter
movieStars on Horseback
1943
movieThe Palm Beach Story
1942 · Tom Jeffers
movieSullivan's Travels
1941 · John Sullivan
movieThe Great Man's Lady
1941 · Mr. Sempler
movieReaching for the Sun
1941 · Russ Eliot
movieBreakdowns of 1940
1940 · Self
movieForeign Correspondent
1940 · John Jones
moviePrimrose Path
1940 · Ed Wallace
movieHe Married His Wife
1940 · T.H. Randall
movieEspionage Agent
1939 · Barry Corvall
movieThey Shall Have Music
1939 · Peter McCarthy
movieUnion Pacific
1939 · Jeff Butler
movieYouth Takes a Fling
1938 · Joe Meadows
movieThree Blind Mice
1938 · Van Dam Smith
movieWells Fargo
1937 · Ramsay MacKay
movieDead End
1937 · Dave
movieWoman Chases Man
1937 · Kenneth Nolan
movieInternes Can't Take Money
1937 · Jimmie Kildare
movieBanjo on My Knee
1936 · Ernie Holley
movieCome and Get It
1936 · Richard Glasgow
movieAdventure in Manhattan
1936 · George Melville
movieTwo in a Crowd
1936 · Larry Stevens
movieThese Three
1936 · Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
movieSplendor
1935 · Brighton Lorrimore
movieBarbary Coast
1935 · Jim Carmichael
movieWoman Wanted
1935 · Tony
movieOur Little Girl
1935 · Donald Middleton
moviePrivate Worlds
1935 · Dr. Alex MacGregor
movieThe Richest Girl in the World
1934 · Anthony Travers
movieHalf a Sinner
1934 · John Adams
movieGambling Lady
1934 · Garry Madison
movieChance at Heaven
1933 · Blacky Gorman
movieOne Man's Journey
1933 · Jimmy Watt
movieBed of Roses
1933 · Dan
movieThe Silver Cord
1933 · David Phelps
movieScarlet River
1933 · Himself (uncredited)
movieRockabye
1932 · Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
movieThe Sport Parade
1932 · Sandy Brown
movieThe Most Dangerous Game
1932 · Robert Rainsford
movieBird of Paradise
1932 · Johnny Baker
movieThe Lost Squadron
1932 · Red
movieBusiness and Pleasure
1932 · Lawrence Ogle
movieGirls About Town
1931 · Jim Baker
movieThe Common Law
1931 · John 'Jack' Neville
movieBorn to Love
1931 · Barry Craig
movieKept Husbands
1931 · Richard 'Dick' Brunton
movieOnce a Sinner
1931 · Tommy Mason
movieLightnin'
1930 · John Marvin
movieThe Silver Horde
1930 · Boyd Emerson
movieFramed
1930 · Waiter (uncredited)
movieDynamite
1929 · Marco
movieSo This Is College
1929 · Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
movieThe Single Standard
1929 · Party Guest (uncredited)
movieThe Jazz Age
1929 · Todd Sayles
movieThe Divine Lady
1928 · Extra (uncredited)
movieDead Man's Curve
1928 · Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
movieThe Enemy
1927 · Extra (uncredited)
movieThe Fair Co-Ed
1927
movieTorrent
1926 · Stunts
A Self-Made Failure
movieA Self-Made Failure
1924 · Stunts
moviePenrod and Sam
1923 · Stunts