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 102
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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)
Cry Blood Apache (1970)
Sioux Nation (1970)
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 First Texan (1956)
Wichita (1955)
Stranger on Horseback (1955)
Black Horse Canyon (1954)
Border River (1954)
The Lone Hand (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)
Ramrod (1947)
The Virginian (1946)
The Unseen (1945)
The Great Moment (1944)
Buffalo Bill (1944)
The More the Merrier (1943)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
The Great Man's Lady (1942)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Reaching for the Sun (1941)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Primrose Path (1940)
He Married His Wife (1940)
Espionage Agent (1939)
Union Pacific (1939)
Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
Three Blind Mice (1938)
Wells Fargo (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)
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)
The Silver Cord (1933)
Scarlet River (1933)
Rockabye (1932)
The Sport Parade (1932)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Bird of Paradise (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)
Framed (1930)
Dynamite (1929)
So This Is College (1929)
The Single Standard (1929)
The Divine Lady (1928)
Dead Man's Curve (1928)
The Enemy (1927)
Torrent (1926)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1905-11-05
Deathday1990-10-20 (84 years old)
Birth PlaceCalifornia, United States
Height189-centimeter
RelationshipsFrances Dee (1933 - 1990)
ChildrenJody McCrea
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsJoel Albert McCrea, Джоэл Маккри
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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