Joel McCrea
Born in South Pasadena, California, USA — Nov 05 1905• Died Oct 20 1990
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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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Joel McCrea's Credits
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Wichita Town
Marshal Mike Dunbar
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Union Pacific
Jeff Butler
Dead End
Dave
Foreign Correspondent
John Jones
The Outriders
Will Owen
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
The Virginian
The Virginian
Wichita
Wyatt Earp
Stars in My Crown
Josiah Doziah Gray
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
Fort Massacre
Vinson
Hollywood Story
Joel McCrea
These Three
Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
Ride the High Country
Steve Judd
The Oklahoman
John
The Palm Beach Story
Tom Jeffers
Wells Fargo
Ramsay MacKay
The Tall Stranger
Ned Bannon
The Most Dangerous Game
Robert Rainsford
The More the Merrier
Joe Carter
Ramrod
Dave Nash
Chance at Heaven
Blacky Gorman
The Unseen
David Fielding
Frenchie
Sheriff Tom Banning
Born to Love
Barry Craig
Come and Get It
Richard Glasgow
Sullivan's Travels
John Sullivan
Border River
Clete Mattson
Colorado Territory
Wes McQueen
Scarlet River
Himself (uncredited)
The First Texan
Sam Houston
They Shall Have Music
Peter McCarthy
Gambling Lady
Garry Madison
Private Worlds
Dr. Alex MacGregor
Woman Wanted
Tony
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Bat Masterson
Espionage Agent
Barry Corvall
Four Faces West
Ross McEwen
Trooper Hook
Sgt. Clovis Hook
Primrose Path
Ed Wallace
Dynamite
Marco
Gunsight Ridge
Mike Ryan
Three Blind Mice
Van Dam Smith
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Cattle Drive
Dan Mathews
Torrent
Crew
Stars on Horseback
Bed of Roses
Dan
Stranger on Horseback
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
Barbary Coast
Jim Carmichael
The Lone Hand
Zachary Hallock
The Great Moment
William Thomas Green Morton
Rockabye
Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
Kept Husbands
Richard 'Dick' Brunton
Splendor
Brighton Lorrimore
The Great Man's Lady
Mr. Sempler
Penrod and Sam
Crew
The Common Law
John 'Jack' Neville
Rough Shoot
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
The San Francisco Story
Rick Nelson
Bird of Paradise
Johnny Baker
Two in a Crowd
Larry Stevens
Framed
Waiter (uncredited)
Saddle Tramp
Chuck Conner
The Richest Girl in the World
Anthony Travers
One Man's Journey
Jimmy Watt
Cattle Empire
John Cord
The Enemy
Extra (uncredited)
Woman Chases Man
Kenneth Nolan
The Fair Co-Ed
So This Is College
Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
Mustang Country
Dan
The Single Standard
Party Guest (uncredited)
Internes Can't Take Money
Jimmie Kildare
The Lost Squadron
Red
Reaching for the Sun
Russ Eliot
Youth Takes a Fling
Joe Meadows
He Married His Wife
T.H. Randall
South of St. Louis
Kip Davis
Lightnin'
John Marvin
The Silver Horde
Boyd Emerson
Once a Sinner
Tommy Mason
Half a Sinner
John Adams
Our Little Girl
Donald Middleton
Girls About Town
Jim Baker
Breakdowns of 1940
Self
A Self-Made Failure
Crew
Adventure in Manhattan
George Melville
The Divine Lady
Extra (uncredited)
The Silver Cord
David Phelps
Black Horse Canyon
Del Rockwell
The Young Rounders
Banjo on My Knee
Ernie Holley
The Jazz Age
Todd Sayles
The Sport Parade
Sandy Brown
Cry Blood Apache
Pitcalin as an Older Man
Business and Pleasure
Lawrence Ogle
Dead Man's Curve
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Sioux Nation
The Crowning Experience
Prologue Narrator
The Great American Cowboy
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