Joel McCrea

Born: 5th of November 1905

Died: 20th of October 1990 (aged 84)

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.

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Joel McCrea's Filmography

Ride the High Country

Ride the High Country

  •   Movie
  • 1962
Steve Judd
Fort Massacre

Fort Massacre

  •   Movie
  • 1958
Vinson
The Tall Stranger

The Tall Stranger

  •   Movie
  • 1957
Ned Bannon
Gunsight Ridge

Gunsight Ridge

  •   Movie
  • 1957
Mike Ryan
Trooper Hook

Trooper Hook

  •   Movie
  • 1957
Sgt. Clovis Hook
The Oklahoman

The Oklahoman

  •   Movie
  • 1957
John
The First Texan

The First Texan

  •   Movie
  • 1956
Sam Houston
Wichita

Wichita

  •   Movie
  • 1955
Wyatt Earp
Stranger on Horseback

Stranger on Horseback

  •   Movie
  • 1955
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
The Lone Hand

The Lone Hand

  •   Movie
  • 1953
Zachary Hallock
Rough Shoot

Rough Shoot

  •   Movie
  • 1953
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
Cattle Drive

Cattle Drive

  •   Movie
  • 1951
Dan Mathews
Stars in My Crown

Stars in My Crown

  •   Movie
  • 1950
Josiah Doziah Gray
Colorado Territory

Colorado Territory

  •   Movie
  • 1949
Wes McQueen
Four Faces West

Four Faces West

  •   Movie
  • 1948
Ross McEwen
Ramrod

Ramrod

  •   Movie
  • 1947
Dave Nash
The Virginian

The Virginian

  •   Movie
  • 1946
The Virginian
The Unseen

The Unseen

  •   Movie
  • 1945
David Fielding
The Great Moment

The Great Moment

  •   Movie
  • 1944
William Thomas Green Morton
Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill

  •   Movie
  • 1944
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
The More the Merrier

The More the Merrier

  •   Movie
  • 1943
Joe Carter
The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story

  •   Movie
  • 1942
Tom Jeffers
Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels

  •   Movie
  • 1941
John Sullivan
Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

  •   Movie
  • 1940
John Jones
Espionage Agent

Espionage Agent

  •   Movie
  • 1939
Barry Corvall
Three Blind Mice

Three Blind Mice

  •   Movie
  • 1938
Van Dam Smith
Dead End

Dead End

  •   Movie
  • 1937
Dave Connell
Banjo on My Knee

Banjo on My Knee

  •   Movie
  • 1936
Ernie Holley
Come and Get It

Come and Get It

  •   Movie
  • 1936
Richard Glasgow
Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast

  •   Movie
  • 1935
Jim Carmichael
The Richest Girl in the World

The Richest Girl in the World

  •   Movie
  • 1934
Anthony Travers
Gambling Lady

Gambling Lady

  •   Movie
  • 1934
Garry Madison
Bed of Roses

Bed of Roses

  •   Movie
  • 1933
Dan
Rockabye

Rockabye

  •   Movie
  • 1932
Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
The Most Dangerous Game

The Most Dangerous Game

  •   Movie
  • 1932
Robert Rainsford
Kept Husbands

Kept Husbands

  •   Movie
  • 1931
Richard Brunton
Torrent

Torrent

  •   Movie
  • 1926
Stunts