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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 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.
Acted in 94
2000s
- 2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
1970s
- 1976
Mustang Country
Dan
- 1970
Sioux Nation
Movie
1960s
- 1966
The Young Rounders
Movie
- 1962
- 1960
The Crowning Experience
Prologue Narrator
1950s
- 1959
Wichita Town
Marshal Mike Dunbar · 26 episodes
- 1958
Fort Massacre
Vinson
Cattle Empire
John Cord
- 1957
The Tall Stranger
Ned Bannon
Gunsight Ridge
Mike Ryan
Trooper Hook
Sgt. Clovis Hook
- 1956
The First Texan
Sam Houston
- 1955
- 1954
Black Horse Canyon
Del Rockwell
Border River
Clete Mattson
- 1953
The Lone Hand
Zachary Hallock
Rough Shoot
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
- 1952
The San Francisco Story
Rick Nelson
- 1951
Cattle Drive
Dan Mathews
Hollywood Story
Joel McCrea
- 1950
Frenchie
Sheriff Tom Banning
Saddle Tramp
Chuck Conner
1940s
- 1949
- 1948
- 1947
- 1946
The Virginian
The Virginian
- 1945
The Unseen
David Fielding
- 1944
The Great Moment
William Thomas Green Morton
- 1943
The More the Merrier
Joe Carter
Stars on Horseback
Movie
- 1942
- 1941
Sullivan's Travels
John Sullivan
The Great Man's Lady
Mr. Sempler
Reaching for the Sun
Russ Eliot
- 1940
Primrose Path
Ed Wallace
He Married His Wife
T.H. Randall
1930s
- 1939
Espionage Agent
Barry Corvall
They Shall Have Music
Peter McCarthy
- 1938
Youth Takes a Fling
Joe Meadows
Three Blind Mice
Van Dam Smith
- 1937
Woman Chases Man
Kenneth Nolan
Internes Can't Take Money
Jimmie Kildare
- 1936
Banjo on My Knee
Ernie Holley
Adventure in Manhattan
George Melville
Two in a Crowd
Larry Stevens
- 1935
Splendor
Brighton Lorrimore
Woman Wanted
Tony
Private Worlds
Dr. Alex MacGregor
- 1934
The Richest Girl in the World
Anthony Travers
Half a Sinner
John Adams
Gambling Lady
Garry Madison
- 1933
Chance at Heaven
Blacky Gorman
One Man's Journey
Jimmy Watt
Bed of Roses
Dan
The Silver Cord
David Phelps
- 1932
Rockabye
Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
The Sport Parade
Sandy Brown
The Lost Squadron
Red
Business and Pleasure
Lawrence Ogle
- 1931
Girls About Town
Jim Baker
The Common Law
John 'Jack' Neville
Born to Love
Barry Craig
Once a Sinner
Tommy Mason
- 1930
Lightnin'
John Marvin
Framed
Waiter (uncredited)
1920s
- 1929
So This Is College
Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
The Single Standard
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Jazz Age
Todd Sayles
- 1928
The Divine Lady
Extra (uncredited)
Dead Man's Curve
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- 1927
The Enemy
Extra (uncredited)
The Fair Co-Ed
Movie
Other crew 2
1920s
- 1926
- 1923
Penrod and Sam
Stunts
Appearances9
2000s
- 2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
1980s
- 1985
- 1982
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1970s
- 1973
The Great American Cowboy
Narrator
1960s
- 1962
1940s
- 1948
- 1940
Breakdowns of 1940
Self
1930s
- 1933
Scarlet River
Himself (uncredited)