Joel McCrea

Born: 5th of November 1905

Died: 20th of October 1990 (aged 84)

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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Joel McCrea's Filmography

Ride the High Country

Ride the High Country

  •   Movie
  • 1962
Steve Judd
Gunsight Ridge

Gunsight Ridge

  •   Movie
  • 1957
Mike Ryan
The Oklahoman

The Oklahoman

  •   Movie
  • 1957
John
The First Texan

The First Texan

  •   Movie
  • 1956
Sam Houston
Wichita

Wichita

  •   Movie
  • 1955
Wyatt Earp
Stranger on Horseback

Stranger on Horseback

  •   Movie
  • 1955
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
Rough Shoot

Rough Shoot

  •   Movie
  • 1953
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
Stars in My Crown

Stars in My Crown

  •   Movie
  • 1950
Josiah Doziah Gray
The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story

  •   Movie
  • 1942
Tom Jeffers
Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels

  •   Movie
  • 1941
John Sullivan
Dead End

Dead End

  •   Movie
  • 1937
Dave Connell
Bed of Roses

Bed of Roses

  •   Movie
  • 1933
Dan
Rockabye

Rockabye

  •   Movie
  • 1932
Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
The Most Dangerous Game

The Most Dangerous Game

  •   Movie
  • 1932
Robert Rainsford
Kept Husbands

Kept Husbands

  •   Movie
  • 1931
Richard Brunton
Torrent

Torrent

  •   Movie
  • 1926
Stunts