Joel McCrea
Known For
Acting
Born
1905-11-05 in South Pasadena, California, USA
Died
1990-10-20
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.
Most Known For
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Girls About Town
as Jim Baker
The Oklahoman
as John
Gambling Lady
as Garry Madison
Wichita Town
as Marshal Mike Dunbar
Kept Husbands
as Richard 'Dick' Brunton
Dead End
as Dave
Mustang Country
as Dan
Four Faces West
as Ross McEwen
Ride the High Country
as Steve Judd
Foreign Correspondent
as John Jones
Sullivan's Travels
as John Sullivan
The Gunfight at Dodge City
as Bat Masterson
The More the Merrier
as Joe Carter
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
Wichita
as Wyatt Earp
The Most Dangerous Game
as Robert Rainsford
The Tall Stranger
as Ned Bannon
Colorado Territory
as Wes McQueen