Joel McCrea

Nov 05, 1905 - Oct 20, 1990 (84 years old) in South Pasadena, California, USA

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.

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Known For

The Single Standard

Party Guest (uncredited)

Primrose Path

Ed Wallace

Dead End

Dave

Woman Chases Man

Kenneth Nolan

Private Worlds

Dr. Alex MacGregor

Hollywood Story

Joel McCrea

Splendor

Brighton Lorrimore

The Silver Cord

David Phelps

Barbary Coast

Jim Carmichael

The Lone Hand

Zachary Hallock

Credits

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood 2008

John Neville Jr. (archive footage)

★ 6.4
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade 2004

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.8
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line 1997

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey 1985

Self

★ 5.6
Night of 100 Stars 1982

Self

★ 6.7
Mustang Country 1976

Dan

★ 4.7
The Great American Cowboy 1973

Narrator

★ 6
Cry Blood Apache 1970

Pitcalin as an Older Man

★ 2.3
Sioux Nation 1970

★ 8.5
The Young Rounders 1966

★ NR
Ride the High Country 1962

Steve Judd

★ 7
The Crowning Experience 1960

Prologue Narrator

★ 5
Wichita Town 1959

Marshal Mike Dunbar

★ 4.2
The Gunfight at Dodge City 1959

Bat Masterson

★ 5.6
Fort Massacre 1958

Vinson

★ 6.1
Cattle Empire 1958

John Cord

★ 6
The Tall Stranger 1957

Ned Bannon

★ 6.6
Gunsight Ridge 1957

Mike Ryan

★ 6
Trooper Hook 1957

Sgt. Clovis Hook

★ 6.6
The Oklahoman 1957

John

★ 5.6
The First Texan 1956

Sam Houston

★ 6.3
Wichita 1955

Wyatt Earp

★ 6.3
Stranger on Horseback 1955

Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne

★ 5.4
Black Horse Canyon 1954

Del Rockwell

★ 5.9
Border River 1954

Clete Mattson

★ 6.2
The Lone Hand 1953

Zachary Hallock

★ 5.6
Rough Shoot 1953

Lt. Col. Robert Taine

★ 6.2
The San Francisco Story 1952

Rick Nelson

★ 4.8
Cattle Drive 1951

Dan Mathews

★ 6.1
Hollywood Story 1951

Joel McCrea

★ 6.6
Frenchie 1950

Sheriff Tom Banning

★ 5.7
Saddle Tramp 1950

Chuck Conner

★ 6.3
Stars in My Crown 1950

Josiah Doziah Gray

★ 6.9
The Outriders 1950

Will Owen

★ 6.9
Colorado Territory 1949

Wes McQueen

★ 7
South of St. Louis 1949

Kip Davis

★ 5.6
Four Faces West 1948

Ross McEwen

★ 5.6
Ramrod 1947

Dave Nash

★ 6.5
The Virginian 1946

The Virginian

★ 6.1
The Unseen 1945

David Fielding

★ 4.6
The Great Moment 1944

William Thomas Green Morton

★ 5.9
Buffalo Bill 1944

William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

★ 5.8
The More the Merrier 1943

Joe Carter

★ 6.8
Stars on Horseback 1943

★ NR
The Palm Beach Story 1942

Tom Jeffers

★ 7
Sullivan's Travels 1941

John Sullivan

★ 7.4
The Great Man's Lady 1941

Mr. Sempler

★ 6.3
Reaching for the Sun 1941

Russ Eliot

★ 6
Breakdowns of 1940 1940

Self

★ 4
Foreign Correspondent 1940

John Jones

★ 7
Primrose Path 1940

Ed Wallace

★ 6.5
He Married His Wife 1940

T.H. Randall

★ 5.1
Espionage Agent 1939

Barry Corvall

★ 5.9
They Shall Have Music 1939

Peter McCarthy

★ 6.1
Union Pacific 1939

Jeff Butler

★ 6.5
Youth Takes a Fling 1938

Joe Meadows

★ 1
Three Blind Mice 1938

Van Dam Smith

★ 6
Wells Fargo 1937

Ramsay MacKay

★ 5.2
Dead End 1937

Dave

★ 7
Woman Chases Man 1937

Kenneth Nolan

★ 5.6
Internes Can't Take Money 1937

Jimmie Kildare

★ 6.3
Banjo on My Knee 1936

Ernie Holley

★ 5.9
Come and Get It 1936

Richard Glasgow

★ 6.8
Adventure in Manhattan 1936

George Melville

★ 5.8
Two in a Crowd 1936

Larry Stevens

★ NR
These Three 1936

Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin

★ 7.1
Splendor 1935

Brighton Lorrimore

★ 6.3
Barbary Coast 1935

Jim Carmichael

★ 6.6
Woman Wanted 1935

Tony

★ 6.3
Private Worlds 1935

Dr. Alex MacGregor

★ 6
Our Little Girl 1935

Donald Middleton

★ 4.8
The Richest Girl in the World 1934

Anthony Travers

★ 5.7
Half a Sinner 1934

John Adams

★ NR
Gambling Lady 1934

Garry Madison

★ 6.2
Chance at Heaven 1933

Blacky Gorman

★ 5.7
One Man's Journey 1933

Jimmy Watt

★ 7.1
Bed of Roses 1933

Dan

★ 6.3
The Silver Cord 1933

David Phelps

★ 7.1
Scarlet River 1933

Himself (uncredited)

★ 4.5
Rockabye 1932

Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell

★ 6.2
The Sport Parade 1932

Sandy Brown

★ 5.3
The Most Dangerous Game 1932

Robert Rainsford

★ 6.9
Bird of Paradise 1932

Johnny Baker

★ 5
The Lost Squadron 1932

Red

★ 6.3
Business and Pleasure 1932

Lawrence Ogle

★ 4
Girls About Town 1931

Jim Baker

★ 6.3
The Common Law 1931

John 'Jack' Neville

★ 5.5
Born to Love 1931

Barry Craig

★ 5
Kept Husbands 1931

Richard Brunton

★ 5.3
Once a Sinner 1931

Tommy Mason

★ NR
Lightnin' 1930

John Marvin

★ 3.7
The Silver Horde 1930

Boyd Emerson

★ 5.3
Framed 1930

Waiter (uncredited)

★ 5.3
Dynamite 1929

Marco

★ 6.4
So This Is College 1929

Bruce Nolan (uncredited)

★ 4.6
The Single Standard 1929

Party Guest (uncredited)

★ 6.2
The Jazz Age 1929

Todd Sayles

★ NR
The Divine Lady 1928

Extra (uncredited)

★ 5.3
Dead Man's Curve 1928

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

★ NR
The Enemy 1927

Extra (uncredited)

★ 5.5
The Fair Co-Ed 1927

★ 5.5

Joel McCrea

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