Joel McCrea

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-11-05 (85 years old)

Deathday

1990-10-20

Place of Birth

South Pasadena, California, USA

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 Stev...

Acting

1932

The Most Dangerous Game

as Robert Rainsford

1942

The Palm Beach Story

as Tom Jeffers

1940

1937

Dead End

as Dave

1949

Colorado Territory

as Wes McQueen

1944

The Great Moment

as William Thomas Green Morton

1962

1947

Ramrod

as Dave Nash

1944

Buffalo Bill

as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

1939

Union Pacific

as Jeff Butler

1945

The Unseen

as David Fielding

1941

Sullivan's Travels

as John Sullivan

1948

Four Faces West

as Ross McEwen

1951

Hollywood Story

as Joel McCrea

1940

Primrose Path

as Ed Wallace

1943

1936

These Three

as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin

1937

Internes Can't Take Money

as Jimmie Kildare

1932

Bird of Paradise

as Johnny Baker

1935

Barbary Coast

as Jim Carmichael

1936

Come and Get It

as Richard Glasgow

1958

Fort Massacre

as Vinson

1959

1941

The Great Man's Lady

as Mr. Sempler

1936

Adventure in Manhattan

as George Melville

1931

Girls About Town

as Jim Baker

1933

The Silver Cord

as David Phelps

1946

The Virginian

as The Virginian

1937

Woman Chases Man

as Kenneth Nolan

1931

Kept Husbands

as Richard Brunton

1935

Private Worlds

as Dr. Alex MacGregor

1931

Born to Love

as Barry Craig

1932

Rockabye

as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell

1957

1939

Espionage Agent

as Barry Corvall

1953

Rough Shoot

as Lt. Col. Robert Taine

1957

Trooper Hook

as Sgt. Clovis Hook

1955

Stranger on Horseback

as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne

1932

The Sport Parade

as Sandy Brown

1935

Splendor

as Brighton Lorrimore

1950

Stars in My Crown

as Josiah Doziah Gray

1934

1933

Chance at Heaven

as Blacky Gorman

1937

Wells Fargo

as Ramsay MacKay

1954

Border River

as Clete Mattson

1933

1951

Cattle Drive

as Dan Mathews

1934

Gambling Lady

as Garry Madison

1931

The Common Law

as John 'Jack' Neville

1957

The Tall Stranger

as Ned Bannon

1955

Wichita

as Wyatt Earp

1950

Saddle Tramp

as Chuck Conner

1939

They Shall Have Music

as Peter McCarthy

1956

The First Texan

as Sam Houston

1950

The Outriders

as Will Owen

1930

The Silver Horde

as Boyd Emerson

1936

Banjo on My Knee

as Ernie Holley

1949

South of St. Louis

as Kip Davis

1957

Gunsight Ridge

as Mike Ryan

1929

Dynamite

as Marco

1953

The Lone Hand

as Zachary Hallock

1929

So This Is College

as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)

1952

1933

One Man's Journey

as Jimmy Watt

1940

He Married His Wife

as T.H. Randall

1950

Frenchie

as Sheriff Tom Banning

1976

1958

Cattle Empire

as John Cord

1935

1932

Business and Pleasure

as Lawrence Ogle

1938

Three Blind Mice

as Van Dam Smith

1928

Dead Man's Curve

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1941

1933

Scarlet River

as Himself (uncredited)

1935

Our Little Girl

as Donald Middleton

1936

Two in a Crowd

as Larry Stevens

1928

The Divine Lady

as Extra (uncredited)

1938

Youth Takes a Fling

as Joe Meadows

1931

Once a Sinner

as Tommy Mason

1929

The Single Standard

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1954

Black Horse Canyon

as Del Rockwell

1997

1930

Lightnin'

as John Marvin

1970

Cry Blood Apache

as Pitcalin as an Older Man

1960

The Crowning Experience

as Prologue Narrator

1927

The Enemy

as Extra (uncredited)

1934

Half a Sinner

as John Adams

2008

1930

Framed

as Waiter (uncredited)

Production

1926

Torrent

as Stunts

1923

1924

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