Acting · South Pasadena, California, USA · Born November 5, 1905
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.
MovieThou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
MovieSam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBarbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
as Self (archive footage)
MovieGeorge Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
as Self
MovieNight of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
MovieMustang Country
1976
as Dan
MovieThe Great American Cowboy
1973
as Narrator
MovieCry Blood Apache
1970
as Pitcalin as an Older Man
MovieSioux Nation
1970
MovieThe Young Rounders
1966
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
MovieRide the High Country
1962
as Steve Judd
MovieThe Crowning Experience
1960
as Prologue Narrator
TVWichita Town
1959
as Marshal Mike Dunbar
MovieThe Gunfight at Dodge City
1959
as Bat Masterson
MovieFort Massacre
1958
as Vinson
MovieCattle Empire
1958
as John Cord
MovieThe Tall Stranger
1957
as Ned Bannon
MovieGunsight Ridge
1957
as Mike Ryan
MovieTrooper Hook
1957
as Sgt. Clovis Hook
MovieThe Oklahoman
1957
as John
MovieThe First Texan
1956
as Sam Houston
MovieWichita
1955
as Wyatt Earp
MovieStranger on Horseback
1955
as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
MovieBlack Horse Canyon
1954
as Del Rockwell
MovieBorder River
1954
as Clete Mattson
MovieThe Lone Hand
1953
as Zachary Hallock
MovieRough Shoot
1953
as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
MovieThe San Francisco Story
1952
as Rick Nelson
MovieCattle Drive
1951
as Dan Mathews
MovieHollywood Story
1951
as Joel McCrea
MovieFrenchie
1950
as Sheriff Tom Banning
MovieSaddle Tramp
1950
as Chuck Conner
MovieStars in My Crown
1950
as Josiah Doziah Gray
MovieThe Outriders
1950
as Will Owen
MovieColorado Territory
1949
as Wes McQueen
MovieSouth of St. Louis
1949
as Kip Davis
MovieFour Faces West
1948
as Ross McEwen
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
MovieRamrod
1947
as Dave Nash
MovieThe Virginian
1946
as The Virginian
MovieThe Unseen
1945
as David Fielding
MovieThe Great Moment
1944
as William Thomas Green Morton
MovieBuffalo Bill
1944
as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
MovieThe More the Merrier
1943
as Joe Carter
MovieStars on Horseback
1943
MovieThe Palm Beach Story
1942
as Tom Jeffers
MovieSullivan's Travels
1941
as John Sullivan
MovieThe Great Man's Lady
1941
as Mr. Sempler
MovieReaching for the Sun
1941
as Russ Eliot
MovieBreakdowns of 1940
1940
as Self
MovieForeign Correspondent
1940
as John Jones
MoviePrimrose Path
1940
as Ed Wallace
MovieHe Married His Wife
1940
as T.H. Randall
MovieEspionage Agent
1939
as Barry Corvall
MovieThey Shall Have Music
1939
as Peter McCarthy
MovieUnion Pacific
1939
as Jeff Butler
MovieYouth Takes a Fling
1938
as Joe Meadows
MovieThree Blind Mice
1938
as Van Dam Smith
MovieWells Fargo
1937
as Ramsay MacKay
MovieDead End
1937
as Dave
MovieWoman Chases Man
1937
as Kenneth Nolan
MovieInternes Can't Take Money
1937
as Jimmie Kildare
MovieBanjo on My Knee
1936
as Ernie Holley
MovieCome and Get It
1936
as Richard Glasgow
MovieAdventure in Manhattan
1936
as George Melville
MovieTwo in a Crowd
1936
as Larry Stevens
MovieThese Three
1936
as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
MovieSplendor
1935
as Brighton Lorrimore
MovieBarbary Coast
1935
as Jim Carmichael
MovieWoman Wanted
1935
as Tony
MovieOur Little Girl
1935
as Donald Middleton
MoviePrivate Worlds
1935
as Dr. Alex MacGregor
MovieThe Richest Girl in the World
1934
as Anthony Travers
MovieHalf a Sinner
1934
as John Adams
MovieGambling Lady
1934
as Garry Madison
MovieChance at Heaven
1933
as Blacky Gorman
MovieOne Man's Journey
1933
as Jimmy Watt
MovieBed of Roses
1933
as Dan
MovieThe Silver Cord
1933
as David Phelps
MovieScarlet River
1933
as Himself (uncredited)
MovieRockabye
1932
as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
MovieThe Sport Parade
1932
as Sandy Brown
MovieThe Most Dangerous Game
1932
as Robert Rainsford
MovieBird of Paradise
1932
as Johnny Baker
MovieThe Lost Squadron
1932
as Red
MovieBusiness and Pleasure
1932
as Lawrence Ogle
MovieGirls About Town
1931
as Jim Baker
MovieThe Common Law
1931
as John 'Jack' Neville
MovieBorn to Love
1931
as Barry Craig
MovieKept Husbands
1931
as Richard 'Dick' Brunton
MovieOnce a Sinner
1931
as Tommy Mason
MovieLightnin'
1930
as John Marvin
MovieThe Silver Horde
1930
as Boyd Emerson
MovieFramed
1930
as Waiter (uncredited)
MovieDynamite
1929
as Marco
MovieSo This Is College
1929
as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
MovieThe Single Standard
1929
as Party Guest (uncredited)
MovieThe Jazz Age
1929
as Todd Sayles
MovieThe Divine Lady
1928
as Extra (uncredited)
MovieDead Man's Curve
1928
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
MovieThe Enemy
1927
as Extra (uncredited)
MovieThe Fair Co-Ed
1927
