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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 5, 1905
Died
October 20, 1990
Place of Birth
South Pasadena, California, USA
Also Known As
- Joel Albert McCrea
- Джоэл Маккри
Joel McCrea
1.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.1
John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
7.8
Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997
5.6
Self
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
6.7
Self
Night of 100 Stars
1982
4.7
Dan
Mustang Country
1976
6.0
Narrator
The Great American Cowboy
1973
2.2
Pitcalin as an Older Man
Cry Blood Apache
1970
8.5
Sioux Nation
1970
0.0
The Young Rounders
1966
Credits
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
2008
6.1
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.8
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
1997
7.5
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
1985
5.6
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
Mustang Country
as Dan
1976
4.7
The Great American Cowboy
as Narrator
1973
6.0
Cry Blood Apache
as Pitcalin as an Older Man
1970
2.2
Sioux Nation
1970
8.5
The Young Rounders
1966
0.0
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Ride the High Country
as Steve Judd
1962
7.0
The Crowning Experience
as Prologue Narrator
1960
5.0
Wichita Town
as Marshal Mike Dunbar
1959
4.2
The Gunfight at Dodge City
as Bat Masterson
1959
5.6
Fort Massacre
as Vinson
1958
6.1
Cattle Empire
as John Cord
1958
6.0
The Tall Stranger
as Ned Bannon
1957
6.5
Gunsight Ridge
as Mike Ryan
1957
5.7
Trooper Hook
as Sgt. Clovis Hook
1957
6.8
The Oklahoman
as John
1957
5.6
The First Texan
as Sam Houston
1956
6.3
Wichita
as Wyatt Earp
1955
6.4
Stranger on Horseback
as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
1955
5.5
Black Horse Canyon
as Del Rockwell
1954
5.9
Border River
as Clete Mattson
1954
6.2
The Lone Hand
as Zachary Hallock
1953
5.6
Rough Shoot
as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
1953
6.2
The San Francisco Story
as Rick Nelson
1952
4.6
Cattle Drive
as Dan Mathews
1951
6.1
Hollywood Story
as Joel McCrea
1951
6.6
Frenchie
as Sheriff Tom Banning
1950
5.7
Saddle Tramp
as Chuck Conner
1950
6.3
Stars in My Crown
as Josiah Doziah Gray
1950
6.9
The Outriders
as Will Owen
1950
6.9
Colorado Territory
as Wes McQueen
1949
7.0
South of St. Louis
as Kip Davis
1949
5.6
Four Faces West
as Ross McEwen
1948
5.6
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Ramrod
as Dave Nash
1947
6.5
The Virginian
as The Virginian
1946
6.0
The Unseen
as David Fielding
1945
4.6
The Great Moment
as William Thomas Green Morton
1944
5.6
Buffalo Bill
as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
1944
5.6
The More the Merrier
as Joe Carter
1943
6.9
Stars on Horseback
1943
4.0
The Palm Beach Story
as Tom Jeffers
1942
7.0
Sullivan's Travels
as John Sullivan
1941
7.4
The Great Man's Lady
as Mr. Sempler
1941
6.3
Reaching for the Sun
as Russ Eliot
1941
6.0
Breakdowns of 1940
as Self
1940
4.0
Foreign Correspondent
as John Jones
1940
7.0
Primrose Path
as Ed Wallace
1940
6.6
He Married His Wife
as T.H. Randall
1940
5.1
Espionage Agent
as Barry Corvall
1939
5.9
They Shall Have Music
as Peter McCarthy
1939
6.2
Union Pacific
as Jeff Butler
1939
6.6
Youth Takes a Fling
as Joe Meadows
1938
1.0
Three Blind Mice
as Van Dam Smith
1938
6.0
Wells Fargo
as Ramsay MacKay
1937
5.2
Dead End
as Dave Connell
1937
7.0
Woman Chases Man
as Kenneth Nolan
1937
5.6
Internes Can't Take Money
as Jimmie Kildare
1937
6.3
Banjo on My Knee
as Ernie Holley
1936
5.5
Come and Get It
as Richard Glasgow
1936
6.8
Adventure in Manhattan
as George Melville
1936
5.8
Two in a Crowd
as Larry Stevens
1936
0.0
These Three
as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
1936
7.1
Splendor
as Brighton Lorrimore
1935
6.3
Barbary Coast
as Jim Carmichael
1935
6.5
Woman Wanted
as Tony
1935
6.3
Private Worlds
as Dr. Alex MacGregor
1935
6.0
Our Little Girl
as Donald Middleton
1935
4.3
The Richest Girl in the World
as Anthony Travers
1934
5.7
Half a Sinner
as John Adams
1934
0.0
Gambling Lady
as Garry Madison
1934
6.2
Chance at Heaven
as Blacky Gorman
1933
5.7
One Man's Journey
as Jimmy Watt
1933
6.5
Bed of Roses
as Dan
1933
6.1
The Silver Cord
as David Phelps
1933
7.1
Scarlet River
as Himself (uncredited)
1933
4.5
Rockabye
as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
1932
6.2
The Sport Parade
as Sandy Brown
1932
4.8
The Most Dangerous Game
as Robert Rainsford
1932
6.9
Bird of Paradise
as Johnny Baker
1932
4.8
The Lost Squadron
as Red
1932
6.3
Business and Pleasure
as Lawrence Ogle
1932
4.5
Girls About Town
as Jim Baker
1931
6.3
The Common Law
as John 'Jack' Neville
1931
5.3
Born to Love
as Barry Craig
1931
5.0
Kept Husbands
as Richard 'Dick' Brunton
1931
5.3
Once a Sinner
as Tommy Mason
1931
0.0
Lightnin'
as John Marvin
1930
3.7
The Silver Horde
as Boyd Emerson
1930
5.3
Framed
as Waiter (uncredited)
1930
5.0
Dynamite
as Marco
1929
6.4
So This Is College
as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
1929
4.2
The Single Standard
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1929
5.5
The Jazz Age
as Todd Sayles
1929
0.0
The Divine Lady
as Extra (uncredited)
1928
5.2
Dead Man's Curve
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1928
0.0
The Enemy
as Extra (uncredited)
1927
5.5
The Fair Co-Ed
1927
5.5