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