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Joel Albert McCrea was an American actor whose career spanned almost five decades, appearing in over one hundred films. These films include 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 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.
Birth Name
Joel Albert McCrea
Born
Sunday, 05 November 1905
Died
Saturday, 20 October 1990
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock | Self | 2023 |
Rifftrax: The Most Dangerous Game | Bob | 2020 |
Five Came Back | Self | 2017 |
One Rogue Reporter | George Melville | 2014 |
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | John Neville Jr. / John Neville Jr. (archive footage) | 2008 |
I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper | Self - from Most Dangerous Game | 2005 |
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2004 |
Hollywood Mavericks | John L. Sullivan | 1990 |
Biography | Ethan Hoyt | 1987 |
American Masters | Self | 1986 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock | Self | 2023 |
Rifftrax: The Most Dangerous Game | Bob | 2020 |
Five Came Back | Self | 2017 |
One Rogue Reporter | George Melville | 2014 |
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | John Neville Jr. / John Neville Jr. (archive footage) | 2008 |
I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper | Self - from Most Dangerous Game | 2005 |
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2004 |
Hollywood Mavericks | John L. Sullivan | 1990 |
Biography | Ethan Hoyt | 1987 |
American Masters | Self | 1986 |
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan | Self | 1985 |
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | Self | 1985 |
Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982 |
America at the Movies | Steve Judd | 1976 |
Mustang Country | Dan | 1976 |
Dinah! | Self | 1974 |
The Great American Cowboy | Narrator | 1973 |
Cry Blood, Apache | Pitcalin as an Older Man | 1970 |
The Joey Bishop Show | Self | 1967 |
Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self / Himself | 1963 |
Ride the High Country | Steve Judd | 1962 |
Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Actor 'Bird of Paradise' | 1961 |
The Crowning Experience | Prologue narrator | 1960 |
Here's Hollywood | Self | 1960 |
Wichita Town | Marshal Mike Dunbar / Mike Dunbar | 1959 |
The Gunfight at Dodge City | Bat Masterson | 1959 |
Fort Massacre | Sgt. Vinson / Vinson | 1958 |
Cattle Empire | John Cord | 1958 |
The Tall Stranger | Ned Bannon | 1957 |
Gunsight Ridge | Mike Ryan | 1957 |
Trooper Hook | Sgt. Clovis Hook | 1957 |
The Oklahoman | Dr. John M. Brighton / John | 1957 |
The First Texan | Sam Houston | 1956 |
Wichita | Wyatt Earp | 1955 |
Stranger on Horseback | Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne | 1955 |
Black Horse Canyon | Del Rockwell | 1954 |
Border River | Clete Mattson | 1954 |
The Lone Hand | Zachary Hallock | 1953 |
The San Francisco Story | Rick Nelson | 1952 |
Cattle Drive | Dan Mathews | 1951 |
Hollywood Story | Joel McCrea | 1951 |
Frenchie | Sheriff Tom Banning | 1950 |
Lux Video Theatre | Self (guest) / Self - Intermission guest | 1950 |
Saddle Tramp | Chuck Conner | 1950 |
Stars in My Crown | Josiah Doziah Gray | 1950 |
The Outriders | Will Owen | 1950 |
Colorado Territory | Wes McQueen | 1949 |
South of St. Louis | Kip Davis | 1949 |
Four Faces West | Ross McEwen | 1948 |
The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1948 |
Ramrod | Dave Nash | 1947 |
The Virginian | The Virginian | 1946 |
The Unseen | David Fielding | 1945 |
The Great Moment | William Thomas Green Morton | 1944 |
Buffalo Bill | William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody | 1944 |
The More the Merrier | Joe Carter | 1943 |
The Palm Beach Story | Tom Jeffers | 1942 |
Sullivan's Travels | John L. Sullivan / John Sullivan | 1941 |
The Great Man's Lady | Ethan Hoyt / Mr. Sempler | 1941 |
Reaching for the Sun | Russ Eliot | 1941 |
Foreign Correspondent | John Jones | 1940 |
Primrose Path | Ed Wallace | 1940 |
The Primrose Path | Ed Wallace | 1940 |
He Married His Wife | T.H. Randall | 1940 |
Espionage Agent | Barry Corvall | 1939 |
They Shall Have Music | Peter / Peter McCarthy | 1939 |
Union Pacific | Jeff Butler | 1939 |
Land of Liberty | Ramsay MacKay (edited from 'Wells Fargo') | 1939 |
Youth Takes a Fling | Joe Meadows | 1938 |
Three Blind Mice | Van Dam Smith | 1938 |
Wells Fargo | Ramsay MacKay | 1937 |
Dead End | Dave | 1937 |
Woman Chases Man | Kenneth Nolan | 1937 |
Internes Can't Take Money | James Kildare / Jimmie Kildare | 1937 |
Banjo on My Knee | Ernie Holley | 1936 |
Come and Get It | Richard Glasgow | 1936 |
Adventure in Manhattan | George Melville | 1936 |
Two in a Crowd | Larry Stevens | 1936 |
These Three | Dr. Cardin / Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin | 1936 |
Splendor | Brighton Lorrimore | 1935 |
Barbary Coast | Jim Carmichael | 1935 |
Woman Wanted | Tony Baxter / Tony | 1935 |
Our Little Girl | Dr. Donald Middleton / Donald Middleton | 1935 |
Private Worlds | Dr. Alex MacGregor | 1935 |
The Richest Girl in the World | Tony Travers / Anthony Travers | 1934 |
Half a Sinner | John Adams | 1934 |
Gambling Lady | Garry Madison | 1934 |
Chance at Heaven | Blacky Gorman | 1933 |
One Man's Journey | Jimmy Watt | 1933 |
Bed of Roses | Dan | 1933 |
The Silver Cord | David Phelps | 1933 |
Scarlet River | Joel McCrea | 1933 |
Rockabye | Jacobs Van Riker Pell / Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell | 1932 |
The Sport Parade | Sandy Brown | 1932 |
The Most Dangerous Game | Bob / Robert Rainsford | 1932 |
Bird of Paradise | Johnny Baker | 1932 |
The Lost Squadron | Red | 1932 |
Business and Pleasure | Lawrence Ogle | 1932 |
Girls About Town | Jim Baker | 1931 |
The Common Law | John Neville / John 'Jack' Neville | 1931 |
Born to Love | Barry Craig | 1931 |
Kept Husbands | Richard 'Dick' Brunton / Richard Brunton | 1931 |
Once a Sinner | Tommy Mason | 1931 |
The Silver Horde | Boyd Emerson | 1930 |
Framed | Waiter at the Casino Club | 1930 |
Dynamite | Marco - Her Boy Friend / Marco | 1929 |
So This Is College | Bruce Nolan | 1929 |
The Single Standard | Blythe - One of the Philandering Men | 1929 |
The Divine Lady | Extra | 1928 |
The Five O'Clock Girl | Oswald | 1928 |
The Enemy | Extra | 1927 |
The Fair Co-Ed | Student | 1927 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Cry Blood, Apache | 1970 |