Joel McCrea
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.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-11-05
Place of birth
South Pasadena, California, USA
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Cast
The Most Dangerous Game
1932
6.95
The Palm Beach Story
1942
7.01
Foreign Correspondent
1940
7.00
Dead End
1937
6.98
Colorado Territory
1949
6.95
The Great Moment
1944
5.80
Ride the High Country
1962
7.05
Ramrod
1947
6.50
Buffalo Bill
1944
5.80
Union Pacific
1939
6.50
The Unseen
1945
4.50
Sullivan's Travels
1941
7.43
Four Faces West
1948
5.60
Hollywood Story
1951
6.60
Primrose Path
1940
6.50
The More the Merrier
1943
6.80
These Three
1936
7.10
Internes Can't Take Money
1937
6.30
Bird of Paradise
1932
4.94
Barbary Coast
1935
6.57
Come and Get It
1936
6.80
Fort Massacre
1958
6.00
The Gunfight at Dodge City
1959
5.63
The Great Man's Lady
1941
6.30
Adventure in Manhattan
1936
5.80
The Lost Squadron
1932
6.30
Girls About Town
1931
6.40
The Silver Cord
1933
7.10
The Virginian
1946
6.10
Woman Chases Man
1937
5.60
Kept Husbands
1931
5.30
Private Worlds
1935
6.00
Born to Love
1931
5.00
Rockabye
1932
6.20
The Oklahoman
1957
5.60
Espionage Agent
1939
5.90
Rough Shoot
1953
6.20
Trooper Hook
1957
6.60
Stranger on Horseback
1955
5.39
The Sport Parade
1932
5.30
Splendor
1935
6.30
Stars in My Crown
1950
6.90
The Richest Girl in the World
1934
5.64
Chance at Heaven
1933
5.70
Wells Fargo
1937
5.15
Border River
1954
6.20
Bed of Roses
1933
6.30
Cattle Drive
1951
6.11
Gambling Lady
1934
6.30
The Great American Cowboy
1973
6.00
The Common Law
1931
5.50
The Tall Stranger
1957
6.50
Wichita
1955
6.29
Saddle Tramp
1950
6.30
They Shall Have Music
1939
6.10
The First Texan
1956
6.10
The Outriders
1950
6.90
The Silver Horde
1930
5.30
Banjo on My Knee
1936
5.80
South of St. Louis
1949
5.60
The Fair Co-Ed
1927
5.50
Gunsight Ridge
1957
6.00
Dynamite
1929
6.39
The Lone Hand
1953
5.20
So This Is College
1929
4.20
The San Francisco Story
1952
4.80
One Man's Journey
1933
7.10
He Married His Wife
1940
5.10
Frenchie
1950
5.70
Mustang Country
1976
4.70
Cattle Empire
1958
6.00
Woman Wanted
1935
6.30
Business and Pleasure
1932
4.00
Three Blind Mice
1938
6.00
Dead Man's Curve
1928
0.00
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
3.30
Reaching for the Sun
1941
6.00
Scarlet River
1933
4.50
Our Little Girl
1935
4.80
Two in a Crowd
1936
0.00
The Divine Lady
1928
5.30
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
1.00
Once a Sinner
1931
0.00
The Single Standard
1929
6.20
Black Horse Canyon
1954
5.90
Lightnin'
1930
3.70
The Young Rounders
1966
0.00
Breakdowns of 1940
1940
4.00
Sioux Nation
1970
8.50
Cry Blood Apache
1970
2.33
The Crowning Experience
1960
5.00
The Enemy
1927
5.50
Half a Sinner
1934
0.00
Stars on Horseback
1943
0.00
Night of 100 Stars
1982
6.67
Framed
1930
5.30