Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

1905-11-05 – 1990-10-20 (age 84) South Pasadena, California, USA
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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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Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country

1962

as Steve Judd

Dead End
Dead End

1937

as Dave

The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game

1932

as Robert Rainsford

Sullivan's Travels
Sullivan's Travels

1941

as John Sullivan

Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent

1940

as John Jones

Wichita
Wichita

1955

as Wyatt Earp

The Virginian
The Virginian

1946

as The Virginian

The Palm Beach Story
The Palm Beach Story

1942

as Tom Jeffers

The More the Merrier
The More the Merrier

1943

as Joe Carter

Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

1944

as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Colorado Territory
Colorado Territory

1949

as Wes McQueen

Union Pacific
Union Pacific

1939

as Jeff Butler

Night of 100 Stars
These Three
These Three

1936

as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin

The Tall Stranger
The Tall Stranger

1957

as Ned Bannon

Ramrod
Ramrod

1947

as Dave Nash

Kept Husbands
Kept Husbands

1931

as Richard 'Dick' Brunton

Stranger on Horseback
Stranger on Horseback

1955

as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne

The Oklahoman
The Oklahoman

1957

as John

Frenchie
Frenchie

1950

as Sheriff Tom Banning