Joel McCrea

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Merv Griffin Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

Wichita Town

Ride the High Country

Dead End

The Most Dangerous Game

Sullivan's Travels

The Palm Beach Story

All Movies (100)

• Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood2008 · as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
• Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade2004 · as Self (archive footage)
• Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line1997 · as Self (archive footage)
• George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey1985 · as Self
• Night of 100 Stars1982 · as Self
• Mustang Country1976 · as Dan
• The Great American Cowboy1973 · as Narrator
• Cry Blood Apache1970 · as Pitcalin as an Older Man
• Sioux Nation1970
• The Young Rounders1966
• Ride the High Country1962 · as Steve Judd
• The Crowning Experience1960 · as Prologue Narrator
• The Gunfight at Dodge City1959 · as Bat Masterson
• Fort Massacre1958 · as Vinson
• Cattle Empire1958 · as John Cord
• The Tall Stranger1957 · as Ned Bannon
• Gunsight Ridge1957 · as Mike Ryan
• Trooper Hook1957 · as Sgt. Clovis Hook
• The Oklahoman1957 · as John
• The First Texan1956 · as Sam Houston
• Wichita1955 · as Wyatt Earp
• Stranger on Horseback1955 · as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
• Black Horse Canyon1954 · as Del Rockwell
• Border River1954 · as Clete Mattson
• The Lone Hand1953 · as Zachary Hallock
• Rough Shoot1953 · as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
• The San Francisco Story1952 · as Rick Nelson
• Cattle Drive1951 · as Dan Mathews
• Hollywood Story1951 · as Joel McCrea
• Frenchie1950 · as Sheriff Tom Banning
• Saddle Tramp1950 · as Chuck Conner
• Stars in My Crown1950 · as Josiah Doziah Gray
• The Outriders1950 · as Will Owen
• Colorado Territory1949 · as Wes McQueen
• South of St. Louis1949 · as Kip Davis
• Four Faces West1948 · as Ross McEwen
• Ramrod1947 · as Dave Nash
• The Virginian1946 · as The Virginian
• The Unseen1945 · as David Fielding
• The Great Moment1944 · as William Thomas Green Morton
• Buffalo Bill1944 · as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
• The More the Merrier1943 · as Joe Carter
• Stars on Horseback1943
• The Palm Beach Story1942 · as Tom Jeffers
• Sullivan's Travels1941 · as John Sullivan
• The Great Man's Lady1941 · as Mr. Sempler
• Reaching for the Sun1941 · as Russ Eliot
• Breakdowns of 19401940 · as Self
• Foreign Correspondent1940 · as John Jones
• Primrose Path1940 · as Ed Wallace
• He Married His Wife1940 · as T.H. Randall
• Espionage Agent1939 · as Barry Corvall
• They Shall Have Music1939 · as Peter McCarthy
• Union Pacific1939 · as Jeff Butler
• Youth Takes a Fling1938 · as Joe Meadows
• Three Blind Mice1938 · as Van Dam Smith
• Wells Fargo1937 · as Ramsay MacKay
• Dead End1937 · as Dave
• Woman Chases Man1937 · as Kenneth Nolan
• Internes Can't Take Money1937 · as Jimmie Kildare
• Banjo on My Knee1936 · as Ernie Holley
• Come and Get It1936 · as Richard Glasgow
• Adventure in Manhattan1936 · as George Melville
• Two in a Crowd1936 · as Larry Stevens
• These Three1936 · as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
• Splendor1935 · as Brighton Lorrimore
• Barbary Coast1935 · as Jim Carmichael
• Woman Wanted1935 · as Tony
• Private Worlds1935 · as Dr. Alex MacGregor
• Our Little Girl1935 · as Donald Middleton
• The Richest Girl in the World1934 · as Anthony Travers
• Half a Sinner1934 · as John Adams
• Gambling Lady1934 · as Garry Madison
• Chance at Heaven1933 · as Blacky Gorman
• One Man's Journey1933 · as Jimmy Watt
• Bed of Roses1933 · as Dan
• The Silver Cord1933 · as David Phelps
• Scarlet River1933 · as Himself (uncredited)
• Rockabye1932 · as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
• The Sport Parade1932 · as Sandy Brown
• The Most Dangerous Game1932 · as Robert Rainsford
• Bird of Paradise1932 · as Johnny Baker
• The Lost Squadron1932 · as Red
• Business and Pleasure1932 · as Lawrence Ogle
• Girls About Town1931 · as Jim Baker
• The Common Law1931 · as John 'Jack' Neville
• Born to Love1931 · as Barry Craig
• Kept Husbands1931 · as Richard 'Dick' Brunton
• Once a Sinner1931 · as Tommy Mason
• Lightnin'1930 · as John Marvin
• The Silver Horde1930 · as Boyd Emerson
• Framed1930 · as Waiter (uncredited)
• Dynamite1929 · as Marco
• So This Is College1929 · as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
• The Single Standard1929 · as Party Guest (uncredited)
• The Jazz Age1929 · as Todd Sayles
• The Divine Lady1928 · as Extra (uncredited)
• Dead Man's Curve1928 · as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• The Enemy1927 · as Extra (uncredited)
• The Fair Co-Ed1927

All TV Shows (3)

• The Merv Griffin Show1962 · as Self
• Wichita Town1959 · as Marshal Mike Dunbar
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self