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.
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Filmography
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Movies 101
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TV Shows 2
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line (1997)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
Mustang Country (1976)
The Great American Cowboy (1973)
Cry Blood Apache (1970)
Sioux Nation (1970)
The Young Rounders (1966)
Ride the High Country (1962)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961)
The Crowning Experience (1960)
Wichita Town (1959)
The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
Fort Massacre (1958)
Cattle Empire (1958)
The Tall Stranger (1957)
Gunsight Ridge (1957)
Trooper Hook (1957)
The Oklahoman (1957)
The First Texan (1956)
Wichita (1955)
Stranger on Horseback (1955)
Black Horse Canyon (1954)
Border River (1954)
The Lone Hand (1953)
Rough Shoot (1953)
The San Francisco Story (1952)
Cattle Drive (1951)
Hollywood Story (1951)
Frenchie (1950)
Saddle Tramp (1950)
Stars in My Crown (1950)
The Outriders (1950)
Colorado Territory (1949)
South of St. Louis (1949)
Four Faces West (1948)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Ramrod (1947)
The Virginian (1946)
The Unseen (1945)
The Great Moment (1944)
Buffalo Bill (1944)
The More the Merrier (1943)
Stars on Horseback (1943)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
The Great Man's Lady (1942)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Reaching for the Sun (1941)
Breakdowns of 1940 (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Primrose Path (1940)
He Married His Wife (1940)
Espionage Agent (1939)
They Shall Have Music (1939)
Union Pacific (1939)
Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
Three Blind Mice (1938)
Wells Fargo (1937)
Dead End (1937)
Woman Chases Man (1937)
Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
Banjo on My Knee (1936)
Come and Get It (1936)
Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Two in a Crowd (1936)
These Three (1936)
Splendor (1935)
Barbary Coast (1935)
Woman Wanted (1935)
Private Worlds (1935)
Our Little Girl (1935)
The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
Half a Sinner (1934)
Gambling Lady (1934)
Chance at Heaven (1933)
One Man's Journey (1933)
Bed of Roses (1933)
The Silver Cord (1933)
Scarlet River (1933)
Rockabye (1932)
The Sport Parade (1932)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Bird of Paradise (1932)
The Lost Squadron (1932)
Business and Pleasure (1932)
Girls About Town (1931)
The Common Law (1931)
Born to Love (1931)
Kept Husbands (1931)
Once a Sinner (1931)
Lightnin' (1930)
The Silver Horde (1930)
Dynamite (1929)
So This Is College (1929)
The Single Standard (1929)
The Divine Lady (1928)
Dead Man's Curve (1928)
The Enemy (1927)
The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
Torrent (1926)
Penrod and Sam (1923)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1905-11-05
Deathday1990-10-20 (84 years old)
Birth PlaceCalifornia, United States of America
Height189-centimeter
RelationshipsFrances Dee (1933-01-01 - 1990-01-01)
ChildrenJody McCrea
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJoel Albert McCrea, Джоэл Маккри
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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