About

Known credits:
102
Birthday:
1905-11-05
Place of birth:
South Pasadena, California, USA
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Joel McCrea

Overview

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.

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Known for

Acting
2008 Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood Actor John Neville Jr. (archive footage) 59
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2004 Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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1997 Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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1985 George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey Actor Self 58
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1982 Night of 100 Stars Actor Self 59
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1976 Mustang Country Actor Dan 58
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1973 The Great American Cowboy Actor Narrator 59
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1970 Cry Blood Apache Actor Pitcalin as an Older Man 58
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1970 Sioux Nation Actor 59
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1966 The Young Rounders Actor N/A
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1962 Ride the High Country Actor Steve Judd 62
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1961 Hollywood: The Selznick Years Actor 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited) 58
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1960 The Crowning Experience Actor Prologue Narrator 58
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1959 Wichita Town Actor Marshal Mike Dunbar 68
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1959 The Gunfight at Dodge City Actor Bat Masterson 58
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1958 Fort Massacre Actor Vinson 59
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1958 Cattle Empire Actor John Cord 59
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1957 The Tall Stranger Actor Ned Bannon 59
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1957 Gunsight Ridge Actor Mike Ryan 59
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1957 Trooper Hook Actor Sgt. Clovis Hook 59
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1957 The Oklahoman Actor John 59
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1956 The First Texan Actor Sam Houston 59
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1955 Wichita Actor Wyatt Earp 59
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1955 Stranger on Horseback Actor Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne 58
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1954 Black Horse Canyon Actor Del Rockwell 59
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1954 Border River Actor Clete Mattson 59
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1953 The Lone Hand Actor Zachary Hallock 58
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1953 Rough Shoot Actor Lt. Col. Robert Taine 59
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1952 The San Francisco Story Actor Rick Nelson 58
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1951 Cattle Drive Actor Dan Mathews 59
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1951 Hollywood Story Actor Joel McCrea 59
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1950 Frenchie Actor Sheriff Tom Banning 59
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1950 Saddle Tramp Actor Chuck Conner 59
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1950 Stars in My Crown Actor Josiah Doziah Gray 59
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1950 The Outriders Actor Will Owen 59
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1949 Colorado Territory Actor Wes McQueen 59
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1949 South of St. Louis Actor Kip Davis 58
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1948 Four Faces West Actor Ross McEwen 58
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1947 Ramrod Actor Dave Nash 59
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1946 The Virginian Actor The Virginian 59
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1945 The Unseen Actor David Fielding 58
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1944 The Great Moment Actor William Thomas Green Morton 58
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1944 Buffalo Bill Actor William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody 58
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1943 The More the Merrier Actor Joe Carter 60
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1943 Stars on Horseback Actor N/A
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1942 The Palm Beach Story Actor Tom Jeffers 61
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1942 The Great Man's Lady Actor Mr. Sempler 59
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1941 Sullivan's Travels Actor John Sullivan 66
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1941 Reaching for the Sun Actor Russ Eliot 59
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1940 Breakdowns of 1940 Actor Self 59
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1940 Foreign Correspondent Actor John Jones 63
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1940 Primrose Path Actor Ed Wallace 59
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1940 He Married His Wife Actor T.H. Randall 58
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1939 Espionage Agent Actor Barry Corvall 59
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1939 They Shall Have Music Actor Peter McCarthy 59
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1939 Union Pacific Actor Jeff Butler 59
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1938 Youth Takes a Fling Actor Joe Meadows 58
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1938 Three Blind Mice Actor Van Dam Smith 59
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1937 Wells Fargo Actor Ramsay MacKay 58
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1937 Dead End Actor Dave 61
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1937 Woman Chases Man Actor Kenneth Nolan 59
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1937 Internes Can't Take Money Actor Jimmie Kildare 59
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1936 Banjo on My Knee Actor Ernie Holley 59
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1936 Come and Get It Actor Richard Glasgow 59
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1936 Adventure in Manhattan Actor George Melville 59
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1936 Two in a Crowd Actor Larry Stevens N/A
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1936 These Three Actor Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin 59
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1935 Splendor Actor Brighton Lorrimore 59
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1935 Barbary Coast Actor Jim Carmichael 59
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1935 Woman Wanted Actor Tony 59
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1935 Private Worlds Actor Dr. Alex MacGregor 59
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1935 Our Little Girl Actor Donald Middleton 58
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1934 The Richest Girl in the World Actor Anthony Travers 58
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1934 Half a Sinner Actor John Adams N/A
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1934 Gambling Lady Actor Garry Madison 59
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1933 Chance at Heaven Actor Blacky Gorman 58
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1933 One Man's Journey Actor Jimmy Watt 59
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1933 Bed of Roses Actor Dan 59
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1933 The Silver Cord Actor David Phelps 59
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1933 Scarlet River Actor Himself (uncredited) 58
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1932 Rockabye Actor Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell 59
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1932 The Sport Parade Actor Sandy Brown 58
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1932 The Most Dangerous Game Actor Robert Rainsford 62
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1932 Bird of Paradise Actor Johnny Baker 58
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1932 The Lost Squadron Actor Red 59
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1932 Business and Pleasure Actor Lawrence Ogle 58
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1931 Girls About Town Actor Jim Baker 59
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1931 The Common Law Actor John 'Jack' Neville 59
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1931 Born to Love Actor Barry Craig 58
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1931 Kept Husbands Actor Richard Brunton 58
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1931 Once a Sinner Actor Tommy Mason N/A
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1930 Lightnin' Actor John Marvin 58
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1930 The Silver Horde Actor Boyd Emerson 58
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1929 Dynamite Actor Marco 59
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1929 So This Is College Actor Bruce Nolan (uncredited) 58
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1929 The Single Standard Actor Party Guest (uncredited) 58
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1928 The Divine Lady Actor Extra (uncredited) 58
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1928 Dead Man's Curve Actor Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) N/A
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1927 The Enemy Actor Extra (uncredited) 59
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1927 The Fair Co-Ed Actor 59
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Crew
1926 Torrent Crew Stunts 59
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1923 Penrod and Sam Crew Stunts 58
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