Joel McCrea

Known for ActingBorn 1905-11-05Died 1990-10-20South 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

A Self-Made Failure

Dead Man's Curve

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

Sioux Nation

Two in a Crowd

Half a Sinner

Once a Sinner

The Jazz Age

Sullivan's Travels

Penrod and Sam

Reaching for the Sun

The Outriders

Ride the High Country

The Young Rounders

Stars in My Crown

The Silver Cord

Colorado Territory

These Three

The Palm Beach Story

The Merv Griffin Show

The More the Merrier

Dead End

Foreign Correspondent

The Great American Cowboy

The Ed Sullivan Show

Trooper Hook

The First Texan

Rough Shoot

The Most Dangerous Game

Hollywood Story

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

Come and Get It

Woman Wanted

Primrose Path

The Crowning Experience

Union Pacific

The Tall Stranger

Splendor

One Man's Journey

Cattle Drive

Saddle Tramp

Ramrod

The Fair Co-Ed

Torrent

Girls About Town

Wichita

They Shall Have Music