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 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.
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Credits
- 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 · George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey as Self
- 1982 · Night of 100 Stars as Self
- 1976 · Mustang Country as Dan
- 1973 · The Great American Cowboy as Narrator
- 1970 · Cry Blood Apache as Pitcalin as an Older Man
- 1970 · Sioux Nation as
- 1966 · The Young Rounders as
- 1962 · Ride the High Country as Steve Judd
- 1961 · Hollywood: The Selznick Years as 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1960 · The Crowning Experience as Prologue Narrator
- 1959 · Wichita Town as Marshal Mike Dunbar
- 1959 · The Gunfight at Dodge City as Bat Masterson
- 1958 · Fort Massacre as Vinson
- 1958 · Cattle Empire as John Cord
- 1957 · The Tall Stranger as Ned Bannon
- 1957 · Gunsight Ridge as Mike Ryan
- 1957 · Trooper Hook as Sgt. Clovis Hook
- 1957 · The Oklahoman as John
- 1956 · The First Texan as Sam Houston
- 1955 · Wichita as Wyatt Earp
- 1955 · Stranger on Horseback as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
- 1954 · Black Horse Canyon as Del Rockwell
- 1954 · Border River as Clete Mattson
- 1953 · The Lone Hand as Zachary Hallock
- 1953 · Rough Shoot as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
- 1952 · The San Francisco Story as Rick Nelson
- 1951 · Cattle Drive as Dan Mathews
- 1951 · Hollywood Story as Joel McCrea
- 1950 · Frenchie as Sheriff Tom Banning
- 1950 · Saddle Tramp as Chuck Conner
- 1950 · Stars in My Crown as Josiah Doziah Gray
- 1950 · The Outriders as Will Owen
- 1949 · Colorado Territory as Wes McQueen
- 1949 · South of St. Louis as Kip Davis
- 1948 · Four Faces West as Ross McEwen
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1947 · Ramrod as Dave Nash
- 1946 · The Virginian as The Virginian
- 1945 · The Unseen as David Fielding
- 1944 · The Great Moment as William Thomas Green Morton
- 1944 · Buffalo Bill as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
- 1943 · The More the Merrier as Joe Carter
- 1943 · Stars on Horseback as
- 1942 · The Palm Beach Story as Tom Jeffers
- 1942 · The Great Man's Lady as Mr. Sempler
- 1941 · Sullivan's Travels as John Sullivan
- 1941 · Reaching for the Sun as Russ Eliot
- 1940 · Breakdowns of 1940 as Self
- 1940 · Foreign Correspondent as John Jones
- 1940 · Primrose Path as Ed Wallace
- 1940 · He Married His Wife as T.H. Randall
- 1939 · Espionage Agent as Barry Corvall
- 1939 · They Shall Have Music as Peter McCarthy
- 1939 · Union Pacific as Jeff Butler
- 1938 · Youth Takes a Fling as Joe Meadows
- 1938 · Three Blind Mice as Van Dam Smith
- 1937 · Wells Fargo as Ramsay MacKay
- 1937 · Dead End as Dave
- 1937 · Woman Chases Man as Kenneth Nolan
- 1937 · Internes Can't Take Money as Jimmie Kildare
- 1936 · Banjo on My Knee as Ernie Holley
- 1936 · Come and Get It as Richard Glasgow
- 1936 · Adventure in Manhattan as George Melville
- 1936 · Two in a Crowd as Larry Stevens
- 1936 · These Three as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
- 1935 · Splendor as Brighton Lorrimore
- 1935 · Barbary Coast as Jim Carmichael
- 1935 · Woman Wanted as Tony
- 1935 · Private Worlds as Dr. Alex MacGregor
- 1935 · Our Little Girl as Donald Middleton
- 1934 · The Richest Girl in the World as Anthony Travers
- 1934 · Half a Sinner as John Adams
- 1934 · Gambling Lady as Garry Madison
- 1933 · Chance at Heaven as Blacky Gorman
- 1933 · One Man's Journey as Jimmy Watt
- 1933 · Bed of Roses as Dan
- 1933 · The Silver Cord as David Phelps
- 1933 · Scarlet River as Himself (uncredited)
- 1932 · Rockabye as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
- 1932 · The Sport Parade as Sandy Brown
- 1932 · The Most Dangerous Game as Robert Rainsford
- 1932 · Bird of Paradise as Johnny Baker
- 1932 · The Lost Squadron as Red
- 1932 · Business and Pleasure as Lawrence Ogle
- 1931 · Girls About Town as Jim Baker
- 1931 · The Common Law as John 'Jack' Neville
- 1931 · Born to Love as Barry Craig
- 1931 · Kept Husbands as Richard Brunton
- 1931 · Once a Sinner as Tommy Mason
- 1930 · Lightnin' as John Marvin
- 1930 · The Silver Horde as Boyd Emerson
- 1929 · Dynamite as Marco
- 1929 · So This Is College as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
- 1929 · The Single Standard as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1928 · The Divine Lady as Extra (uncredited)
- 1928 · Dead Man's Curve as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- 1927 · The Enemy as Extra (uncredited)
- 1927 · The Fair Co-Ed as