Joel McCrea
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.
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Movies (47)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
2008
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
1997
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
1985
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
Mustang Country
as Dan
1976
The Great American Cowboy
as Narrator
1973
Cry Blood Apache
as Pitcalin as an Older Man
1970
Sioux Nation
1970
The Young Rounders
1966
Ride the High Country
as Steve Judd
1962
The Crowning Experience
as Prologue Narrator
1960
The Gunfight at Dodge City
as Bat Masterson
1959
Fort Massacre
as Vinson
1958
Cattle Empire
as John Cord
1958
The Tall Stranger
as Ned Bannon
1957
Gunsight Ridge
as Mike Ryan
1957
Trooper Hook
as Sgt. Clovis Hook
1957
The Oklahoman
as John
1957
The First Texan
as Sam Houston
1956
Wichita
as Wyatt Earp
1955
Stranger on Horseback
as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
1955
Black Horse Canyon
as Del Rockwell
1954
Border River
as Clete Mattson
1954
The Lone Hand
as Zachary Hallock
1953
Rough Shoot
as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
1953
The San Francisco Story
as Rick Nelson
1952
Cattle Drive
as Dan Mathews
1951
Hollywood Story
as Joel McCrea
1951
Frenchie
as Sheriff Tom Banning
1950
Saddle Tramp
as Chuck Conner
1950
Stars in My Crown
as Josiah Doziah Gray
1950
The Outriders
as Will Owen
1950
Colorado Territory
as Wes McQueen
1949
South of St. Louis
as Kip Davis
1949
Four Faces West
as Ross McEwen
1948
Ramrod
as Dave Nash
1947
The Virginian
as The Virginian
1946
The Unseen
as David Fielding
1945
The Great Moment
as William Thomas Green Morton
1944
Buffalo Bill
as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
1944
The More the Merrier
as Joe Carter
1943
Stars on Horseback
1943
The Palm Beach Story
as Tom Jeffers
1942
Sullivan's Travels
as John Sullivan
1941
The Great Man's Lady
as Mr. Sempler
1941
Reaching for the Sun
as Russ Eliot
1941
