Joel McCrea
Acting
Born: Nov 05, 1905 — Died: Oct 20, 1990
From: South Pasadena, California, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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.
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ride the High Country | Steve Judd | 1962 | 7.055 |
| The Gunfight at Dodge City | Bat Masterson | 1959 | 5.729 |
| Fort Massacre | Vinson | 1958 | 6.135 |
| Hollywood Story | Joel McCrea | 1951 | 6.688 |
| Colorado Territory | Wes McQueen | 1949 | 6.98 |
| Four Faces West | Ross McEwen | 1948 | 5.818 |
| Ramrod | Dave Nash | 1947 | 6.481 |
| The Virginian | The Virginian | 1946 | 6.182 |
| The Unseen | David Fielding | 1945 | 4.705 |
| The Great Moment | William Thomas Green Morton | 1944 | 5.795 |
| Buffalo Bill | William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody | 1944 | 5.737 |
| The More the Merrier | Joe Carter | 1943 | 6.952 |
| The Palm Beach Story | Tom Jeffers | 1942 | 7.0 |
| Sullivan's Travels | John Sullivan | 1941 | 7.408 |
| The Great Man's Lady | Mr. Sempler | 1941 | 6.333 |
| Foreign Correspondent | John Jones | 1940 | 6.974 |
| Primrose Path | Ed Wallace | 1940 | 6.66 |
| Union Pacific | Jeff Butler | 1939 | 6.665 |
| Dead End | Dave | 1937 | 7.044 |
| Internes Can't Take Money | Jimmie Kildare | 1937 | 6.5 |
| Woman Chases Man | Kenneth Nolan | 1937 | 5.889 |
| These Three | Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin | 1936 | 7.178 |
| Come and Get It | Richard Glasgow | 1936 | 6.821 |
| Adventure in Manhattan | George Melville | 1936 | 6.071 |
| Barbary Coast | Jim Carmichael | 1935 | 6.5 |
| The Silver Cord | David Phelps | 1933 | 7.25 |
| The Most Dangerous Game | Robert Rainsford | 1932 | 6.92 |
| Bird of Paradise | Johnny Baker | 1932 | 4.982 |
| The Lost Squadron | Red | 1932 | 6.474 |
| Girls About Town | Jim Baker | 1931 | 6.591 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1905 |
| From | South Pasadena, California, … |