Born in South Pasadena, California, USA — Nov 05 1905• Died Oct 20 1990

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 M…
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Marshal Mike Dunbar

Self

Jeff Butler

Dave

John Jones

Will Owen

Self (archive footage)

The Virginian

Wyatt Earp

Josiah Doziah Gray

Self (archive footage)

Vinson

Joel McCrea

Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin

Steve Judd

John

Tom Jeffers

Ramsay MacKay

Ned Bannon

Robert Rainsford

Joe Carter

Dave Nash

Blacky Gorman

David Fielding

Sheriff Tom Banning

Barry Craig

Richard Glasgow

John Sullivan

Clete Mattson

Wes McQueen

Himself (uncredited)

Sam Houston

Peter McCarthy

Garry Madison

Dr. Alex MacGregor

Tony

Bat Masterson

Barry Corvall

Ross McEwen

Sgt. Clovis Hook

Ed Wallace

Marco

Mike Ryan

Van Dam Smith

William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Dan Mathews

Crew


Dan

Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne

Jim Carmichael

Zachary Hallock

William Thomas Green Morton

Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell

Richard 'Dick' Brunton

Brighton Lorrimore

Mr. Sempler

Crew

John 'Jack' Neville

Lt. Col. Robert Taine

John Neville Jr. (archive footage)

Self

Rick Nelson

Johnny Baker

Larry Stevens

Waiter (uncredited)

Chuck Conner

Anthony Travers

Jimmy Watt

John Cord

Extra (uncredited)

Kenneth Nolan


Bruce Nolan (uncredited)

Dan

Party Guest (uncredited)

Jimmie Kildare

Red

Russ Eliot

Joe Meadows

T.H. Randall

Kip Davis

John Marvin

Boyd Emerson

Tommy Mason

John Adams

Donald Middleton

Jim Baker

Self
Crew

George Melville

Extra (uncredited)

David Phelps

Del Rockwell


Ernie Holley

Todd Sayles

Sandy Brown

Pitcalin as an Older Man

Lawrence Ogle

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)


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