Joel McCrea
Born: 1905-11-05 in South Pasadena, California, USA
Died: 1990-10-20
Known For: Acting
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
2008
- Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
2004
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line as Self (archive footage)
1985
1982
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
1976
- Mustang Country as Dan
1973
- The Great American Cowboy as Narrator
1970
- Sioux Nation
- Cry Blood Apache as Pitcalin as an Older Man
1966
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Ride the High Country as Steve Judd
1960
- The Crowning Experience as Prologue Narrator
1959
- Wichita Town as Marshal Mike Dunbar
- The Gunfight at Dodge City as Bat Masterson
1958
- Fort Massacre as Vinson
- Cattle Empire as John Cord
1957
- The Oklahoman as John
- The Tall Stranger as Ned Bannon
- Trooper Hook as Sgt. Clovis Hook
- Gunsight Ridge as Mike Ryan
1956
- The First Texan as Sam Houston
1955
- Wichita as Wyatt Earp
- Stranger on Horseback as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
1954
- Border River as Clete Mattson
- Black Horse Canyon as Del Rockwell
1953
- The Lone Hand as Zachary Hallock
- Rough Shoot as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
1952
- The San Francisco Story as Rick Nelson
1951
- Cattle Drive as Dan Mathews
- Hollywood Story as Joel McCrea
1950
- Stars in My Crown as Josiah Doziah Gray
- The Outriders as Will Owen
- Frenchie as Sheriff Tom Banning
- Saddle Tramp as Chuck Conner
1949
- South of St. Louis as Kip Davis
- Colorado Territory as Wes McQueen
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Four Faces West as Ross McEwen
1947
- Ramrod as Dave Nash
1946
- The Virginian as The Virginian
1945
- The Unseen as David Fielding
1944
- Buffalo Bill as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
- The Great Moment as William Thomas Green Morton
1943
- The More the Merrier as Joe Carter
- Stars on Horseback
1942
- The Palm Beach Story as Tom Jeffers
1941
- Sullivan's Travels as John Sullivan
- The Great Man's Lady as Mr. Sempler
- Reaching for the Sun as Russ Eliot
1940
- Foreign Correspondent as John Jones
- He Married His Wife as T.H. Randall
- Primrose Path as Ed Wallace
- Breakdowns of 1940 as Self
1939
- Union Pacific as Jeff Butler
- They Shall Have Music as Peter McCarthy
- Espionage Agent as Barry Corvall
1938
- Youth Takes a Fling as Joe Meadows
- Three Blind Mice as Van Dam Smith
1937
- Dead End as Dave
- Internes Can't Take Money as Jimmie Kildare
- Wells Fargo as Ramsay MacKay
- Woman Chases Man as Kenneth Nolan
1936
- These Three as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
- Banjo on My Knee as Ernie Holley
- Come and Get It as Richard Glasgow
- Two in a Crowd as Larry Stevens
- Adventure in Manhattan as George Melville
1935
- Barbary Coast as Jim Carmichael
- Our Little Girl as Donald Middleton
- Woman Wanted as Tony
- Private Worlds as Dr. Alex MacGregor
- Splendor as Brighton Lorrimore
1934
- The Richest Girl in the World as Anthony Travers
- Half a Sinner as John Adams
- Gambling Lady as Garry Madison
1933
- Chance at Heaven as Blacky Gorman
- One Man's Journey as Jimmy Watt
- Bed of Roses as Dan
- The Silver Cord as David Phelps
- Scarlet River as Himself (uncredited)
1932
- The Most Dangerous Game as Robert Rainsford
- Bird of Paradise as Johnny Baker
- Rockabye as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
- The Lost Squadron as Red
- Business and Pleasure as Lawrence Ogle
- The Sport Parade as Sandy Brown
1931
- Kept Husbands as Richard 'Dick' Brunton
- Girls About Town as Jim Baker
- Once a Sinner as Tommy Mason
- The Common Law as John 'Jack' Neville
- Born to Love as Barry Craig
1930
- The Silver Horde as Boyd Emerson
- Lightnin' as John Marvin
- Framed as Waiter (uncredited)
1929
- So This Is College as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
- Dynamite as Marco
- The Single Standard as Party Guest (uncredited)
- The Jazz Age as Todd Sayles
1928
- Dead Man's Curve as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- The Divine Lady as Extra (uncredited)
1927
- The Fair Co-Ed
- The Enemy as Extra (uncredited)
1926
- Torrent ... (Stunts)
1924
- A Self-Made Failure ... (Stunts)
1923
- Penrod and Sam ... (Stunts)