Joel McCrea1905 - 1990

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Actor

Popularity

2.7

Famous

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.

Credits

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

2008

Documentary • History

as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)

6.4
0.4
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self (archive footage)

7.3
0.5
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

1997

Documentary

as Self (archive footage)

7
0.3
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
5.6
0.3
Night of 100 Stars
Night of 100 Stars

1982

Comedy • Documentary • Music • TV Movie

as Self

6.7
0.7
Mustang Country
Mustang Country

1976

Western

as Dan

4.7
0.2
The Great American Cowboy
The Great American Cowboy

1973

Documentary

as Narrator

6
0.1
Cry Blood Apache
Cry Blood Apache

1970

Action • Western

as Pitcalin as an Older Man

2.5
0.6
Sioux Nation
Sioux Nation

1970

Western

8.5
0
The Young Rounders
0
0.1
Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country

1962

Western

as Steve Judd

7
0.8
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Hollywood: The Selznick Years

1961

Documentary

as 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)

3.3
0.4
The Crowning Experience
The Crowning Experience

1960

Drama

as Prologue Narrator

5
0
The Gunfight at Dodge City
The Gunfight at Dodge City

1959

Western

as Bat Masterson

5.6
0.3
Fort Massacre
Fort Massacre

1958

Western

as Vinson

6
0.5
Cattle Empire
Cattle Empire

1958

Western

as John Cord

6
0.4
The Tall Stranger
The Tall Stranger

1957

Western

as Ned Bannon

6.5
0.6
Gunsight Ridge
Gunsight Ridge

1957

Action • Adventure • Western

as Mike Ryan

6
0.4
Trooper Hook
Trooper Hook

1957

Western

as Sgt. Clovis Hook

6.6
0.5
The Oklahoman
The Oklahoman

1957

Western

as John

5.6
0.4
The First Texan
The First Texan

1956

History • War • Western

as Sam Houston

6.1
0.7
Wichita
Wichita

1955

Western

as Wyatt Earp

6.3
0.8
Stranger on Horseback
Stranger on Horseback

1955

Western

as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne

5.4
0.3
Black Horse Canyon
Black Horse Canyon

1954

Western

as Del Rockwell

5.9
0.2
Border River
Border River

1954

Western

as Clete Mattson

6.2
0.5
The Lone Hand
The Lone Hand

1953

Western

as Zachary Hallock

5.2
0.4
Rough Shoot
Rough Shoot

1953

Crime • Thriller

as Lt. Col. Robert Taine

6.2
0.3
The San Francisco Story
The San Francisco Story

1952

Western

as Rick Nelson

4.8
0.3
Cattle Drive
Cattle Drive

1951

Western

as Dan Mathews

6.1
0.3
Hollywood Story
Hollywood Story

1951

Mystery • Thriller

as Joel McCrea

6.6
0.3
Frenchie
Frenchie

1950

Western

as Sheriff Tom Banning

5.7
0.5
Saddle Tramp
Saddle Tramp

1950

Western

as Chuck Conner

6.3
0.4
Stars in My Crown
Stars in My Crown

1950

Drama • Western

as Josiah Doziah Gray

6.9
0.5
The Outriders
The Outriders

1950

Western

as Will Owen

6.9
0.6
Colorado Territory
Colorado Territory

1949

Crime • Romance • Western

as Wes McQueen

6.9
0.6
South of St. Louis
South of St. Louis

1949

Western

as Kip Davis

5.6
0.3
Four Faces West
Four Faces West

1948

Western

as Ross McEwen

5.6
0.4
Ramrod
Ramrod

1947

Western

as Dave Nash

6.5
0.4
The Virginian
The Virginian

1946

Western

as The Virginian

6.1
0.6
The Unseen
The Unseen

1945

Mystery • Thriller

as David Fielding

4.5
0.3
The Great Moment
The Great Moment

1944

Comedy • Drama

as William Thomas Green Morton

5.8
0.2
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

1944

Action • Drama • Western

as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

5.8
0.5
The More the Merrier
The More the Merrier

1943

Comedy • Romance

as Joe Carter

6.8
0.5
Stars on Horseback
Stars on Horseback

1943

Documentary

0
0.2
The Palm Beach Story
The Palm Beach Story

1942

Comedy • Romance

as Tom Jeffers

7
0.4
Sullivan's Travels
Sullivan's Travels

1941

Adventure • Comedy • Romance

as John Sullivan

7.4
0.7
The Great Man's Lady
The Great Man's Lady

1941

Drama • Romance • Western

as Mr. Sempler

6.3
0.3
Reaching for the Sun
Reaching for the Sun

1941

Comedy • Drama

as Russ Eliot

6
0.1
Breakdowns of 1940
Breakdowns of 1940

1940

Comedy • Documentary

as Self

4
0.2
Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent

1940

Action • Mystery • Thriller

as John Jones

7
0.7
Primrose Path
Primrose Path

1940

Drama • Romance

as Ed Wallace

6.5
0.4
He Married His Wife
He Married His Wife

1940

as T.H. Randall

5.1
0.2
Espionage Agent
Espionage Agent

1939

Drama • Romance • Thriller • War

as Barry Corvall

5.9
0.3
They Shall Have Music
They Shall Have Music

1939

Drama • Family • Music

as Peter McCarthy

6.1
0.3
Union Pacific
Union Pacific

1939

Drama • Western

as Jeff Butler

6.5
1.3
Youth Takes a Fling
Youth Takes a Fling

1938

Comedy • Romance

as Joe Meadows

1
0.2
Three Blind Mice
Three Blind Mice

1938

Comedy • Romance

as Van Dam Smith

6
0.4
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo

1937

History • Western

as Ramsay MacKay

5.2
0.7
Dead End
Dead End

1937

Crime • Drama

as Dave

7
0.7
Woman Chases Man
Woman Chases Man

1937

Comedy • Romance

as Kenneth Nolan

5.6
0.2
Internes Can't Take Money
Internes Can't Take Money

1937

Crime • Drama • Romance

as Jimmie Kildare

6.3
0.3
Banjo on My Knee
Banjo on My Knee

1936

Comedy • Romance

as Ernie Holley

5.8
0.2
Come and Get It
Come and Get It

1936

Drama • Romance

as Richard Glasgow

6.8
0.4
Adventure in Manhattan
Adventure in Manhattan

1936

Comedy • Crime • Drama • Mystery

as George Melville

5.8
0.3
Two in a Crowd
Two in a Crowd

1936

Comedy • Romance

as Larry Stevens

0
0.3
These Three
These Three

1936

Drama • Romance

as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin

7.1
0.3
Splendor
Splendor

1935

Comedy • Romance

as Brighton Lorrimore

6.3
0.2
Barbary Coast
Barbary Coast

1935

Drama • Romance • Western

as Jim Carmichael

6.6
0.5
Woman Wanted
Woman Wanted

1935

Comedy • Crime • Drama

as Tony

6.3
0.3
Private Worlds
Private Worlds

1935

Drama

as Dr. Alex MacGregor

6
0.3
Our Little Girl
Our Little Girl

1935

Comedy • Drama • Family

as Donald Middleton

4.8
0.2
The Richest Girl in the World
The Richest Girl in the World

1934

Comedy • Romance

as Anthony Travers

5.6
0.4
Half a Sinner
Half a Sinner

1934

Drama

as John Adams

0
0.1
Gambling Lady
Gambling Lady

1934

Drama • Mystery

as Garry Madison

6.3
0.3
Chance at Heaven
Chance at Heaven

1933

Drama • Romance

as Blacky Gorman

5.7
0.3
One Man's Journey
One Man's Journey

1933

Drama

as Jimmy Watt

7.1
0.4
Bed of Roses
Bed of Roses

1933

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Dan

6.3
0.3
The Silver Cord
The Silver Cord

1933

Drama • Romance

as David Phelps

7.1
0.2
Scarlet River
Scarlet River

1933

Comedy • Romance • Western

as Himself (uncredited)

4.5
0.2
Rockabye
Rockabye

1932

Drama

as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell

6.2
0.2
The Sport Parade
The Sport Parade

1932

Drama • Romance

as Sandy Brown

5.3
0.2
The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game

1932

Action • Adventure • Horror • Thriller

as Robert Rainsford

6.9
1.5
Bird of Paradise
Bird of Paradise

1932

Adventure • Drama • Romance

as Johnny Baker

5
1.1
The Lost Squadron
The Lost Squadron

1932

Action • Drama • History • War

as Red

6.3
0.2
Business and Pleasure
Business and Pleasure

1932

Comedy

as Lawrence Ogle

4
0.1
Girls About Town
Girls About Town

1931

Comedy

as Jim Baker

6.4
0.2
The Common Law
The Common Law

1931

Drama

as John 'Jack' Neville

5.5
0.4
Born to Love
Born to Love

1931

Drama • War

as Barry Craig

5
0.2
Kept Husbands
Kept Husbands

1931

Drama

as Richard Brunton

5.3
1
Once a Sinner
Once a Sinner

1931

Romance

as Tommy Mason

0
0.1
Lightnin'
Lightnin'

1930

Comedy

as John Marvin

3.7
0.2
The Silver Horde
The Silver Horde

1930

Drama

as Boyd Emerson

5.3
0.4
Dynamite
Dynamite

1929

Drama

as Marco

6.4
0.5
So This Is College
So This Is College

1929

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)

4.2
0.2
The Single Standard
The Single Standard

1929

Drama • Romance

as Party Guest (uncredited)

6.2
0.2
The Divine Lady
The Divine Lady

1928

Drama • History • Romance • War

as Extra (uncredited)

5.3
0.4
Dead Man's Curve
Dead Man's Curve

1928

Action • Drama

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

0
0.1
The Enemy
The Enemy

1927

Drama • Romance • War

as Extra (uncredited)

5.5
0.3
The Fair Co-Ed
The Fair Co-Ed

1927

Comedy

5.5
0.1

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