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Joel McCrea

Actor, Producer
Born November 5, 1905Died October 20, 1990 (84 years)
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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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • The Most Dangerous Game
  • Dead End
  • Come and Get It
  • Barbary Coast
  • Bird of Paradise
  • Cry Blood, Apache
  • The San Francisco Story
Known For
  • Sullivan's Travels
  • Foreign Correspondent
  • The Most Dangerous Game
  • Ride the High Country
  • The Palm Beach Story
  • Dead End
  • The More the Merrier
  • Colorado Territory
  • Stars in My Crown
  • Wichita
  • Ramrod
  • Buffalo Bill
  • Union Pacific
  • The Virginian
  • Come and Get It
  • Fort Massacre
  • The Gunfight at Dodge City
  • The Great Moment
  • Four Faces West
  • These Three
  • Trooper Hook
  • The Tall Stranger
  • Primrose Path
  • Stranger on Horseback

Filmography

2020
2014
One Rogue Reporter · as George Melville
2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood · as John Neville Jr. (archive Footage)
1990
Hollywood Mavericks · as John L. Sullivan
1979
The Wild West · as Cast
1976
America at the Movies · as Steve Judd
1976
Mustang Country · as Dan
1974
1970
Cry Blood, Apache · as Pitcalin As An Older Man
1969
Hollywood: The Selznick Years · as 'bird Of Paradise' (archive Footage) (uncredited)
1962
Ride the High Country · as Steve Judd
1960
The Crowning Experience · as Prologue Narrator
1959
Wichita Town (TV Series) · as Marshal Mike Dunbar
1959
The Gunfight at Dodge City · as Bat Masterson
1958
Fort Massacre · as Vinson
1958
Cattle Empire · as John Cord
1957
The Tall Stranger · as Ned Bannon
1957
Gunsight Ridge · as Mike Ryan
1957
Trooper Hook · as Sgt. Clovis Hook
1957
The Oklahoman · as John
1956
The First Texan · as Sam Houston
1955
Wichita · as Wyatt Earp
1955
Stranger on Horseback · as Judge Richard 'rick' Thorne
1954
Black Horse Canyon · as Del Rockwell
1954
Border River · as Clete Mattson
1953
The Lone Hand · as Zachary Hallock
1953
Shoot First · as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
1952
1951
Cattle Drive · as Dan Mathews
1950
Frenchie · as Sheriff Tom Banning
1950
Saddle Tramp · as Chuck Conner
1950
Stars in My Crown · as Josiah Doziah Gray
1950
The Outriders · as Will Owen
1949
Colorado Territory · as Wes Mcqueen
1949
South of St. Louis · as Kip Davis
1948
Four Faces West · as Ross Mcewen
1947
Ramrod · as Dave Nash
1946
The Virginian · as The Virginian
1945
The Unseen · as David Fielding
1944
The Great Moment · as William Thomas Green Morton
1944
Buffalo Bill · as William Frederick 'buffalo Bill' Cody
1943
The More the Merrier · as Joe Carter
1942
The Palm Beach Story · as Tom Jeffers
1941
Sullivan's Travels · as John Sullivan
1941
The Great Man's Lady · as Mr. Sempler
1941
Reaching for the Sun · as Russ Eliot
1940
Foreign Correspondent · as John Jones
1940
Primrose Path · as Ed Wallace
1940
He Married His Wife · as T.h. Randall
1939
Espionage Agent · as Barry Corvall
1939
They Shall Have Music · as Peter Mccarthy
1939
Land of Liberty · as Ramsay Mackay (edited From 'wells Fargo')
1939
Union Pacific · as Jeff Butler
1938
Youth Takes a Fling · as Joe Meadows
1938
Three Blind Mice · as Van Dam Smith
1937
Wells Fargo · as Ramsay Mackay
1937
1937
Woman Chases Man · as Kenneth Nolan
1937
Internes Can't Take Money · as Jimmie Kildare
1936
Come and Get It · as Richard Glasgow
1936
Banjo on My Knee · as Ernie Holley
1936
Adventure in Manhattan · as George Melville
1936
Two in a Crowd · as Larry Stevens
1936
These Three · as Dr. Joseph 'joe' Cardin
1935
Barbary Coast · as Jim Carmichael
1935
Splendor · as Brighton Lorrimore
1935
Woman Wanted · as Tony
1935
Our Little Girl · as Donald Middleton
1935
Private Worlds · as Dr. Alex Macgregor
1934
The Richest Girl in the World · as Anthony Travers
1934
Gambling Lady · as Garry Madison
1933
Chance at Heaven · as Blacky Gorman
1933
One Man's Journey · as Jimmy Watt
1933
Bed of Roses · as Dan
1933
The Silver Cord · as David Phelps
1932
Rockabye · as Jacobs 'jake' Van Riker Pell
1932
The Sport Parade · as Sandy Brown
1932
The Most Dangerous Game · as Robert Rainsford
1932
Bird of Paradise · as Johnny Baker
1932
1932
Business and Pleasure · as Lawrence Ogle
1931
Girls About Town · as Jim Baker
1931
The Common Law · as John 'jack' Neville
1931
Born to Love · as Barry Craig
1931
Kept Husbands · as Richard Brunton
1930
Lightnin' · as John Marvin
1930
The Silver Horde · as Boyd Emerson
1930
Framed · as Waiter At The Casino Club
1929
Dynamite · as Marco
1929
So This Is College · as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
1929
The Single Standard · as Party Guest (uncredited)
1928
The Divine Lady · as Extra (uncredited)
1928
1927
The Enemy · as Extra (uncredited)
1927

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