Joel McCrea

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: Acting

Born: South Pasadena, California, USA, 1905-11-05

Died: 1990-10-20

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1927	The Fair Co-Ed		55
2	1927	The Enemy	Extra (uncredited)	55
3	1928	Dead Man's Curve	Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)	0
4	1928	The Divine Lady	Extra (uncredited)	53
5	1929	The Single Standard	Party Guest (uncredited)	62
6	1929	So This Is College	Bruce Nolan (uncredited)	42
7	1929	Dynamite	Marco	64
8	1930	Framed	Waiter (uncredited)	53
9	1930	The Silver Horde	Boyd Emerson	53
10	1930	Lightnin'	John Marvin	37
11	1931	Once a Sinner	Tommy Mason	0
12	1931	Kept Husbands	Richard Brunton	53
13	1931	Born to Love	Barry Craig	50
14	1931	The Common Law	John 'Jack' Neville	55
15	1931	Girls About Town	Jim Baker	64
16	1932	Business and Pleasure	Lawrence Ogle	40
17	1932	The Lost Squadron	Red	63
18	1932	Bird of Paradise	Johnny Baker	49
19	1932	The Most Dangerous Game	Robert Rainsford	69
20	1932	The Sport Parade	Sandy Brown	53
21	1932	Rockabye	Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell	62
22	1933	Scarlet River	Himself (uncredited)	45
23	1933	The Silver Cord	David Phelps	71
24	1933	Bed of Roses	Dan	63
25	1933	One Man's Journey	Jimmy Watt	71
26	1933	Chance at Heaven	Blacky Gorman	57
27	1934	Gambling Lady	Garry Madison	63
28	1934	Half a Sinner	John Adams	0
29	1934	The Richest Girl in the World	Anthony Travers	57
30	1935	Our Little Girl	Donald Middleton	48
31	1935	Private Worlds	Dr. Alex MacGregor	60
32	1935	Woman Wanted	Tony	63
33	1935	Barbary Coast	Jim Carmichael	66
34	1935	Splendor	Brighton Lorrimore	63
35	1936	These Three	Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin	71
36	1936	Two in a Crowd	Larry Stevens	0
37	1936	Adventure in Manhattan	George Melville	58
38	1936	Come and Get It	Richard Glasgow	68
39	1936	Banjo on My Knee	Ernie Holley	58
40	1937	Internes Can't Take Money	Jimmie Kildare	63
41	1937	Woman Chases Man	Kenneth Nolan	56
42	1937	Dead End	Dave	70
43	1937	Wells Fargo	Ramsay MacKay	52
44	1938	Three Blind Mice	Van Dam Smith	60
45	1938	Youth Takes a Fling	Joe Meadows	10
46	1939	Union Pacific	Jeff Butler	65
47	1939	They Shall Have Music	Peter McCarthy	61
48	1939	Espionage Agent	Barry Corvall	59
49	1940	He Married His Wife	T.H. Randall	51
50	1940	Primrose Path	Ed Wallace	65
51	1940	Foreign Correspondent	John Jones	70
52	1940	Breakdowns of 1940	Self	40
53	1941	Reaching for the Sun	Russ Eliot	60
54	1941	The Great Man's Lady	Mr. Sempler	63
55	1941	Sullivan's Travels	John Sullivan	74
56	1942	The Palm Beach Story	Tom Jeffers	70
57	1943	Stars on Horseback		0
58	1943	The More the Merrier	Joe Carter	68
59	1944	Buffalo Bill	William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody	58
60	1944	The Great Moment	William Thomas Green Morton	58
61	1945	The Unseen	David Fielding	45
62	1946	The Virginian	The Virginian	61
63	1947	Ramrod	Dave Nash	65
64	1948	Four Faces West	Ross McEwen	56
65	1949	South of St. Louis	Kip Davis	56
66	1949	Colorado Territory	Wes McQueen	70
67	1950	The Outriders	Will Owen	69
68	1950	Stars in My Crown	Josiah Doziah Gray	69
69	1950	Saddle Tramp	Chuck Conner	63
70	1950	Frenchie	Sheriff Tom Banning	57
71	1951	Hollywood Story	Joel McCrea	66
72	1951	Cattle Drive	Dan Mathews	61
73	1952	The San Francisco Story	Rick Nelson	48
74	1953	Rough Shoot	Lt. Col. Robert Taine	62
75	1953	The Lone Hand	Zachary Hallock	52
76	1954	Border River	Clete Mattson	62
77	1954	Black Horse Canyon	Del Rockwell	59
78	1955	Stranger on Horseback	Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne	54
79	1955	Wichita	Wyatt Earp	63
80	1956	The First Texan	Sam Houston	61
81	1957	The Oklahoman	John	56
82	1957	Trooper Hook	Sgt. Clovis Hook	66
83	1957	Gunsight Ridge	Mike Ryan	60
84	1957	The Tall Stranger	Ned Bannon	65
85	1958	Cattle Empire	John Cord	60
86	1958	Fort Massacre	Vinson	60
87	1959	The Gunfight at Dodge City	Bat Masterson	56
88	1960	The Crowning Experience	Prologue Narrator	50
89	1961	Hollywood: The Selznick Years	'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)	33
90	1962	Ride the High Country	Steve Judd	70
91	1966	The Young Rounders		0
92	1970	Sioux Nation		85
93	1970	Cry Blood Apache	Pitcalin as an Older Man	23
94	1973	The Great American Cowboy	Narrator	60
95	1976	Mustang Country	Dan	47
96	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
97	1985	George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey	Self	56
98	1997	Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line	Self (archive footage)	70
99	2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self (archive footage)	74
100	2008	Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood	John Neville Jr. (archive footage)	64

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1959	Wichita Town	Marshal Mike Dunbar	42
3	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58

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