Joel McCrea
Actor
Born November 5, 1905 in South Pasadena, California, USA
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.
Filmography
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Mustang Country
Dan
The Great American Cowboy
Narrator
Cry Blood Apache
Pitcalin as an Older Man
Sioux Nation
The Young Rounders
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Ride the High Country
Steve Judd
The Crowning Experience
Prologue Narrator
Wichita Town
Marshal Mike Dunbar
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Bat Masterson
Fort Massacre
Vinson
Cattle Empire
John Cord
The Tall Stranger
Ned Bannon
Gunsight Ridge
Mike Ryan
Trooper Hook
Sgt. Clovis Hook
The Oklahoman
John
The First Texan
Sam Houston
Wichita
Wyatt Earp
Stranger on Horseback
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
Black Horse Canyon
Del Rockwell
Border River
Clete Mattson
The Lone Hand
Zachary Hallock
Rough Shoot
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
The San Francisco Story
Rick Nelson
Cattle Drive
Dan Mathews
Hollywood Story
Joel McCrea
Frenchie
Sheriff Tom Banning
Saddle Tramp
Chuck Conner
Stars in My Crown
Josiah Doziah Gray
The Outriders
Will Owen
Colorado Territory
Wes McQueen
South of St. Louis
Kip Davis
Four Faces West
Ross McEwen
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Ramrod
Dave Nash
The Virginian
The Virginian
The Unseen
David Fielding
The Great Moment
William Thomas Green Morton
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
The More the Merrier
Joe Carter
Stars on Horseback
The Palm Beach Story
Tom Jeffers
Sullivan's Travels
John Sullivan
The Great Man's Lady
Mr. Sempler
Reaching for the Sun
Russ Eliot
Breakdowns of 1940
Self
Foreign Correspondent
John Jones
Primrose Path
Ed Wallace
He Married His Wife
T.H. Randall
Espionage Agent
Barry Corvall
They Shall Have Music
Peter McCarthy
Union Pacific
Jeff Butler
Youth Takes a Fling
Joe Meadows
Three Blind Mice
Van Dam Smith
Wells Fargo
Ramsay MacKay
Dead End
Dave
Woman Chases Man
Kenneth Nolan
Internes Can't Take Money
Jimmie Kildare
Banjo on My Knee
Ernie Holley
Come and Get It
Richard Glasgow
Adventure in Manhattan
George Melville
Two in a Crowd
Larry Stevens
These Three
Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
Splendor
Brighton Lorrimore
Barbary Coast
Jim Carmichael
Woman Wanted
Tony
Our Little Girl
Donald Middleton
Private Worlds
Dr. Alex MacGregor
The Richest Girl in the World
Anthony Travers
Half a Sinner
John Adams
Gambling Lady
Garry Madison
Chance at Heaven
Blacky Gorman
One Man's Journey
Jimmy Watt
Bed of Roses
Dan
The Silver Cord
David Phelps
Scarlet River
Himself (uncredited)
Rockabye
Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
The Sport Parade
Sandy Brown
The Most Dangerous Game
Robert Rainsford
Bird of Paradise
Johnny Baker
The Lost Squadron
Red
Business and Pleasure
Lawrence Ogle
Girls About Town
Jim Baker
The Common Law
John 'Jack' Neville
Born to Love
Barry Craig
Kept Husbands
Richard 'Dick' Brunton
Once a Sinner
Tommy Mason
Lightnin'
John Marvin
The Silver Horde
Boyd Emerson
Framed
Waiter (uncredited)
Dynamite
Marco
So This Is College
Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
The Single Standard
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Jazz Age
Todd Sayles
The Divine Lady
Extra (uncredited)
Dead Man's Curve
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
The Enemy
Extra (uncredited)
The Fair Co-Ed
Torrent
Penrod and Sam