Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

1905-11-05 – 1990-10-20 (age 84) South Pasadena, California, USA
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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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Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent

1940

as John Jones

The Oklahoman
The Oklahoman

1957

as John

Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country

1962

as Steve Judd

Wichita
Wichita

1955

as Wyatt Earp

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Colorado Territory
Colorado Territory

1949

as Wes McQueen

The Outriders
The Outriders

1950

as Will Owen

The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game

1932

as Robert Rainsford

The Virginian
The Virginian

1946

as The Virginian

Dead End
Dead End

1937

as Dave

Barbary Coast
Barbary Coast

1935

as Jim Carmichael

Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

1944

as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Fort Massacre
Fort Massacre

1958

as Vinson

Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo

1937

as Ramsay MacKay

Night of 100 Stars
Primrose Path
Primrose Path

1940

as Ed Wallace

Woman Wanted
Woman Wanted

1935

as Tony

Lightnin'
Lightnin'

1930

as John Marvin

Sullivan's Travels
Sullivan's Travels

1941

as John Sullivan

Cattle Drive
Cattle Drive

1951

as Dan Mathews