Joel McCrea

Acting · 1.7 popularity

Age

120

Movies

100

Born: November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990
From: South Pasadena, California, USA

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.

Works

100 films

Ride the High Country

19627.0

Foreign Correspondent

19407.0

Sullivan's Travels

19417.4

Union Pacific

19396.7

The Most Dangerous Game

19326.9

The Young Rounders

19667.0

Night of 100 Stars

19825.8

Dead End

19377.1

Come and Get It

19366.8

The Virginian

19466.2

The Oklahoman

19575.8

The Gunfight at Dodge City

19595.7

Wichita

19556.3

Cattle Drive

19516.5

He Married His Wife

19405.6

The Tall Stranger

19576.5

Kept Husbands

19315.3

The Palm Beach Story

19427.0

Colorado Territory

19496.9

Stranger on Horseback

19555.8

Half a Sinner

19348.0

Fort Massacre

19586.2

Bird of Paradise

19325.0

Barbary Coast

19356.4

The More the Merrier

19437.0

The Outriders

19507.3

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

19977.7

Stars in My Crown

19507.0

These Three

19367.2

Chance at Heaven

19335.8

Ramrod

19476.5

So This Is College

19294.7

Frenchie

19506.0

South of St. Louis

19495.8

Saddle Tramp

19506.5

Mustang Country

19765.5

Gunsight Ridge

19576.0

Four Faces West

19485.7

The Great Man's Lady

19416.3

Gambling Lady

19346.2

Wells Fargo

19375.5

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

20086.1

The San Francisco Story

19524.9

The Lone Hand

19535.7

Our Little Girl

19355.2

Two in a Crowd

19368.0

Border River

19546.2

Primrose Path

19406.7

Buffalo Bill

19445.8

Internes Can't Take Money

19376.5

Hollywood Story

19516.7

The Silver Horde

19305.5

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

19855.8

The First Texan

19566.7

Girls About Town

19316.6

They Shall Have Music

19396.5

Once a Sinner

19318.0

Black Horse Canyon

19545.8

Trooper Hook

19576.7

The Great Moment

19445.8

Banjo on My Knee

19365.8

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

20048.0

The Unseen

19454.7

The Enemy

19276.3

Scarlet River

19335.6

Cattle Empire

19586.2

Business and Pleasure

19326.3

The Common Law

19315.4

The Richest Girl in the World

19345.8

Splendor

19356.7

Woman Wanted

19356.8

Bed of Roses

19336.1

Three Blind Mice

19386.1

Private Worlds

19356.4

Dynamite

19296.4

Reaching for the Sun

19417.3

The Divine Lady

19285.3

The Silver Cord

19337.3

Adventure in Manhattan

19366.1

The Single Standard

19295.9

Lightnin'

19305.3

Youth Takes a Fling

19385.5

Rockabye

19326.5

Cry Blood Apache

19702.6

Born to Love

19315.3

The Lost Squadron

19326.5

Breakdowns of 1940

19404.0

The Fair Co-Ed

19276.7

Rough Shoot

19536.7

The Great American Cowboy

19736.6

Woman Chases Man

19375.9

The Sport Parade

19325.3

Dead Man's Curve

19289.0

One Man's Journey

19336.7

Espionage Agent

19396.3

Sioux Nation

19707.8

Framed

19305.3

Stars on Horseback

19435.0

The Jazz Age

19298.0

The Crowning Experience

19606.5