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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

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Foreign Correspondent
John Jones
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Wells Fargo
Ramsay MacKay
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Border River
Clete Mattson
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The Outriders
Will Owen
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Trooper Hook
Sgt. Clovis Hook
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Rough Shoot
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
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Colorado Territory
Wes McQueen
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The Virginian
The Virginian
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Barbary Coast
Jim Carmichael
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Saddle Tramp
Chuck Conner

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