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Joel McCrea

Acting Born Nov 5, 1905 South Pasadena, California, USA 24 credits

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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Known for

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

Eve

as Robert Rainsford
Film

Sullivan's Travels

as John Sullivan

Full filmography

  • The Merv Griffin Show (1962) as Self
  • The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
  • Wichita Town (1959) as Marshal Mike Dunbar
  • Ride the High Country (1962) as Steve Judd
  • Dead End (1937) as Dave
  • The Outriders (1950) as Will Owen
  • The Most Dangerous Game (1932) as Robert Rainsford
  • Foreign Correspondent (1940) as John Jones
  • The More the Merrier (1943) as Joe Carter
  • The First Texan (1956) as Sam Houston
  • Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004) as Self (archive footage)
  • Sullivan's Travels (1941) as John Sullivan
  • Espionage Agent (1939) as Barry Corvall
  • Union Pacific (1939) as Jeff Butler
  • Night of 100 Stars (1982) as Self
  • These Three (1936) as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
  • Border River (1954) as Clete Mattson
  • The Palm Beach Story (1942) as Tom Jeffers
  • Wichita (1955) as Wyatt Earp
  • The Enemy (1927) as Extra (uncredited)
  • Barbary Coast (1935) as Jim Carmichael
  • Ramrod (1947) as Dave Nash
  • The Virginian (1946) as The Virginian
  • Buffalo Bill (1944) as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody