Joel McCrea
Acting • Born 1905-11-05 – Died 1990-10-20
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.
Filmography
103 credits
The Most Dangerous Game
Movie • 1932
Robert Rainsford
The Palm Beach Story
Movie • 1942
Tom Jeffers
Foreign Correspondent
Movie • 1940
John Jones
Dead End
Movie • 1937
Dave
Colorado Territory
Movie • 1949
Wes McQueen
The Great Moment
Movie • 1944
William Thomas Green Morton
Ride the High Country
Movie • 1962
Steve Judd
Ramrod
Movie • 1947
Dave Nash
Buffalo Bill
Movie • 1944
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Union Pacific
Movie • 1939
Jeff Butler
The Unseen
Movie • 1945
David Fielding
Sullivan's Travels
Movie • 1941
John Sullivan
Four Faces West
Movie • 1948
Ross McEwen
Hollywood Story
Movie • 1951
Joel McCrea
Primrose Path
Movie • 1940
Ed Wallace
The More the Merrier
Movie • 1943
Joe Carter
These Three
Movie • 1936
Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
Internes Can't Take Money
Movie • 1937
Jimmie Kildare
Bird of Paradise
Movie • 1932
Johnny Baker
Barbary Coast
Movie • 1935
Jim Carmichael
Come and Get It
Movie • 1936
Richard Glasgow
Fort Massacre
Movie • 1958
Vinson
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Movie • 1959
Bat Masterson
The Great Man's Lady
Movie • 1941
Mr. Sempler
Adventure in Manhattan
Movie • 1936
George Melville
The Lost Squadron
Movie • 1932
Red
Girls About Town
Movie • 1931
Jim Baker
The Silver Cord
Movie • 1933
David Phelps
The Virginian
Movie • 1946
The Virginian
Woman Chases Man
Movie • 1937
Kenneth Nolan
Kept Husbands
Movie • 1931
Richard 'Dick' Brunton
Private Worlds
Movie • 1935
Dr. Alex MacGregor
Born to Love
Movie • 1931
Barry Craig
Rockabye
Movie • 1932
Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
The Oklahoman
Movie • 1957
John
Espionage Agent
Movie • 1939
Barry Corvall
Rough Shoot
Movie • 1953
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
Trooper Hook
Movie • 1957
Sgt. Clovis Hook
Stranger on Horseback
Movie • 1955
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
The Sport Parade
Movie • 1932
Sandy Brown
Splendor
Movie • 1935
Brighton Lorrimore
Stars in My Crown
Movie • 1950
Josiah Doziah Gray
The Richest Girl in the World
Movie • 1934
Anthony Travers
Chance at Heaven
Movie • 1933
Blacky Gorman
Wells Fargo
Movie • 1937
Ramsay MacKay
Border River
Movie • 1954
Clete Mattson
Bed of Roses
Movie • 1933
Dan
Cattle Drive
Movie • 1951
Dan Mathews
Gambling Lady
Movie • 1934
Garry Madison
The Great American Cowboy
Movie • 1973
Narrator
The Common Law
Movie • 1931
John 'Jack' Neville
The Tall Stranger
Movie • 1957
Ned Bannon
Wichita
Movie • 1955
Wyatt Earp
Saddle Tramp
Movie • 1950
Chuck Conner
They Shall Have Music
Movie • 1939
Peter McCarthy
The First Texan
Movie • 1956
Sam Houston
The Outriders
Movie • 1950
Will Owen
The Silver Horde
Movie • 1930
Boyd Emerson
Banjo on My Knee
Movie • 1936
Ernie Holley
South of St. Louis
Movie • 1949
Kip Davis
The Fair Co-Ed
Movie • 1927
Gunsight Ridge
Movie • 1957
Mike Ryan
Dynamite
Movie • 1929
Marco
The Lone Hand
Movie • 1953
Zachary Hallock
So This Is College
Movie • 1929
Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
The San Francisco Story
Movie • 1952
Rick Nelson
One Man's Journey
Movie • 1933
Jimmy Watt
He Married His Wife
Movie • 1940
T.H. Randall
Frenchie
Movie • 1950
Sheriff Tom Banning
Mustang Country
Movie • 1976
Dan
Cattle Empire
Movie • 1958
John Cord
Woman Wanted
Movie • 1935
Tony
Business and Pleasure
Movie • 1932
Lawrence Ogle
Three Blind Mice
Movie • 1938
Van Dam Smith
Dead Man's Curve
Movie • 1928
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Reaching for the Sun
Movie • 1941
Russ Eliot
Scarlet River
Movie • 1933
Himself (uncredited)
Our Little Girl
Movie • 1935
Donald Middleton
Two in a Crowd
Movie • 1936
Larry Stevens
The Divine Lady
Movie • 1928
Extra (uncredited)
Youth Takes a Fling
Movie • 1938
Joe Meadows
Once a Sinner
Movie • 1931
Tommy Mason
The Single Standard
Movie • 1929
Party Guest (uncredited)
Black Horse Canyon
Movie • 1954
Del Rockwell
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Lightnin'
Movie • 1930
John Marvin
The Young Rounders
Movie • 1966
Breakdowns of 1940
Movie • 1940
Self
Sioux Nation
Movie • 1970
Cry Blood Apache
Movie • 1970
Pitcalin as an Older Man
The Crowning Experience
Movie • 1960
Prologue Narrator
The Enemy
Movie • 1927
Extra (uncredited)
Half a Sinner
Movie • 1934
John Adams
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Movie • 2008
John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
Stars on Horseback
Movie • 1943
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Movie • 1985
Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars
Movie • 1982
Self
Framed
Movie • 1930
Waiter (uncredited)
The Jazz Age
Movie • 1929
Todd Sayles
Wichita Town
TV • 1959
Marshal Mike Dunbar
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self