1905-11-05 South Pasadena, California, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | John Neville Jr. (archive footage) | 2008-03-03 |
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 |
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line | Self (archive footage) | 1997-05-12 |
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | Self | 1985-03-03 |
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Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
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Mustang Country | Dan | 1976-03-29 |
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The Great American Cowboy | Narrator | 1973-12-01 |
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Cry Blood Apache | Pitcalin as an Older Man | 1970-09-01 |
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Sioux Nation | 1970-01-01 | |
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The Young Rounders | 1966-01-01 | |
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Ride the High Country | Steve Judd | 1962-06-20 |
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 |
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The Crowning Experience | Prologue Narrator | 1960-10-22 |
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The Gunfight at Dodge City | Bat Masterson | 1959-05-01 |
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Cattle Empire | John Cord | 1958-04-01 |
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Fort Massacre | Vinson | 1958-05-14 |
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Trooper Hook | Sgt. Clovis Hook | 1957-07-12 |
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Gunsight Ridge | Mike Ryan | 1957-09-01 |
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The Oklahoman | John | 1957-05-19 |
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The Tall Stranger | Ned Bannon | 1957-11-17 |
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The First Texan | Sam Houston | 1956-06-29 |
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Stranger on Horseback | Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne | 1955-03-22 |
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Wichita | Wyatt Earp | 1955-07-03 |
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Black Horse Canyon | Del Rockwell | 1954-06-01 |
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Border River | Clete Mattson | 1954-01-06 |
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The Lone Hand | Zachary Hallock | 1953-05-20 |
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Rough Shoot | Lt. Col. Robert Taine | 1953-03-30 |
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The San Francisco Story | Rick Nelson | 1952-05-11 |
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Cattle Drive | Dan Mathews | 1951-08-01 |
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Hollywood Story | Joel McCrea | 1951-06-01 |
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Stars in My Crown | Josiah Doziah Gray | 1950-05-11 |
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Saddle Tramp | Chuck Conner | 1950-09-21 |
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Frenchie | Sheriff Tom Banning | 1950-12-25 |
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The Outriders | Will Owen | 1950-03-01 |
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Colorado Territory | Wes McQueen | 1949-06-11 |
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South of St. Louis | Kip Davis | 1949-03-06 |
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Four Faces West | Ross McEwen | 1948-08-03 |
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Ramrod | Dave Nash | 1947-05-02 |
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The Virginian | The Virginian | 1946-05-05 |
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The Unseen | David Fielding | 1945-05-12 |
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Buffalo Bill | William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody | 1944-04-02 |
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The Great Moment | William Thomas Green Morton | 1944-07-18 |
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The More the Merrier | Joe Carter | 1943-05-13 |
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Stars on Horseback | 1943-04-23 | |
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The Palm Beach Story | Tom Jeffers | 1942-08-28 |
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Sullivan's Travels | John Sullivan | 1941-11-30 |
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The Great Man's Lady | Mr. Sempler | 1941-10-31 |
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Reaching for the Sun | Russ Eliot | 1941-05-01 |
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Breakdowns of 1940 | Self | 1940-12-31 |
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Primrose Path | Ed Wallace | 1940-03-22 |
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He Married His Wife | T.H. Randall | 1940-01-19 |
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Foreign Correspondent | John Jones | 1940-08-16 |
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They Shall Have Music | Peter McCarthy | 1939-08-18 |
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Union Pacific | Jeff Butler | 1939-05-05 |
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Espionage Agent | Barry Corvall | 1939-09-30 |
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Youth Takes a Fling | Joe Meadows | 1938-09-22 |
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Three Blind Mice | Van Dam Smith | 1938-06-18 |
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Dead End | Dave | 1937-08-27 |
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Woman Chases Man | Kenneth Nolan | 1937-05-07 |
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Wells Fargo | Ramsay MacKay | 1937-12-31 |
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Internes Can't Take Money | Jimmie Kildare | 1937-04-16 |
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Two in a Crowd | Larry Stevens | 1936-10-03 |
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These Three | Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin | 1936-03-18 |
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Banjo on My Knee | Ernie Holley | 1936-12-11 |
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Adventure in Manhattan | George Melville | 1936-10-08 |
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Come and Get It | Richard Glasgow | 1936-11-06 |
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Our Little Girl | Donald Middleton | 1935-01-01 |
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Splendor | Brighton Lorrimore | 1935-11-22 |
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Private Worlds | Dr. Alex MacGregor | 1935-04-19 |
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Barbary Coast | Jim Carmichael | 1935-10-13 |
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Woman Wanted | Tony | 1935-08-02 |
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The Richest Girl in the World | Anthony Travers | 1934-09-21 |
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Gambling Lady | Garry Madison | 1934-03-08 |
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Half a Sinner | John Adams | 1934-06-01 |
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Scarlet River | Himself (uncredited) | 1933-03-10 |
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One Man's Journey | Jimmy Watt | 1933-08-31 |
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The Silver Cord | David Phelps | 1933-05-05 |
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Chance at Heaven | Blacky Gorman | 1933-10-27 |
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Bed of Roses | Dan | 1933-06-29 |
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The Lost Squadron | Red | 1932-03-12 |
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Rockabye | Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell | 1932-11-25 |
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The Most Dangerous Game | Robert Rainsford | 1932-09-16 |
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The Sport Parade | Sandy Brown | 1932-11-11 |
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Business and Pleasure | Lawrence Ogle | 1932-02-24 |
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Bird of Paradise | Johnny Baker | 1932-08-12 |
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Kept Husbands | Richard Brunton | 1931-02-22 |
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The Common Law | John 'Jack' Neville | 1931-07-17 |
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Once a Sinner | Tommy Mason | 1931-01-25 |
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Girls About Town | Jim Baker | 1931-11-07 |
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Born to Love | Barry Craig | 1931-04-17 |
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Lightnin' | John Marvin | 1930-11-28 |
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The Silver Horde | Boyd Emerson | 1930-10-24 |
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So This Is College | Bruce Nolan (uncredited) | 1929-11-08 |
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The Single Standard | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1929-07-27 |
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Dynamite | Marco | 1929-12-13 |
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The Divine Lady | Extra (uncredited) | 1928-12-26 |
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Dead Man's Curve | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) | 1928-01-15 |
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The Fair Co-Ed | 1927-10-22 | |
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The Enemy | Extra (uncredited) | 1927-12-08 |
