Joel McCrea
Acting
- Born:
- 1905-11-05
- Died:
- 1990-10-20
- Place of birth:
- South Pasadena, California, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Night of 100 Stars
Mustang Country
The Great American Cowboy
Cry Blood Apache
Sioux Nation
The Young Rounders
The Merv Griffin Show
Ride the High Country
The Crowning Experience
Wichita Town
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Fort Massacre
Cattle Empire
The Tall Stranger
Gunsight Ridge
Trooper Hook
The Oklahoman
The First Texan
Wichita
Stranger on Horseback
Black Horse Canyon
Border River
The Lone Hand
Rough Shoot
The San Francisco Story
Cattle Drive
Hollywood Story
Frenchie
Saddle Tramp
Stars in My Crown
The Outriders
Colorado Territory
South of St. Louis
Four Faces West
The Ed Sullivan Show
Ramrod
The Virginian
The Unseen
The Great Moment
Buffalo Bill
The More the Merrier
Stars on Horseback
The Palm Beach Story
Sullivan's Travels
The Great Man's Lady
Reaching for the Sun
Breakdowns of 1940
Foreign Correspondent
Primrose Path
He Married His Wife
Espionage Agent
They Shall Have Music
Union Pacific
Youth Takes a Fling
Three Blind Mice
Wells Fargo
Dead End
Woman Chases Man
Internes Can't Take Money
Banjo on My Knee
Come and Get It
Adventure in Manhattan
Two in a Crowd
These Three
Splendor
Barbary Coast
Woman Wanted
Our Little Girl
Private Worlds
The Richest Girl in the World
Half a Sinner
Gambling Lady
Chance at Heaven
One Man's Journey
Bed of Roses
The Silver Cord
Scarlet River
Rockabye
The Sport Parade
The Most Dangerous Game
Bird of Paradise
The Lost Squadron
Business and Pleasure
Girls About Town
The Common Law
Born to Love
Kept Husbands
Once a Sinner
Lightnin'
The Silver Horde
Framed
Dynamite
So This Is College
The Single Standard
The Jazz Age
The Divine Lady
Dead Man's Curve
The Enemy
The Fair Co-Ed