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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Sioux Nation | 1970-01-01 | |
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Cry Blood Apache | Pitcalin as an Older Man | 1970-09-01 |
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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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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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The Tall Stranger | Ned Bannon | 1957-11-17 |
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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 First Texan | Sam Houston | 1956-06-29 |
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Wichita | Wyatt Earp | 1955-07-03 |
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Stranger on Horseback | Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne | 1955-03-22 |
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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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Rough Shoot | Lt. Col. Robert Taine | 1953-03-30 |
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The Lone Hand | Zachary Hallock | 1953-05-20 |
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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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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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Stars in My Crown | Josiah Doziah Gray | 1950-05-11 |
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South of St. Louis | Kip Davis | 1949-03-06 |
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Colorado Territory | Wes McQueen | 1949-06-11 |
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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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The Great Moment | William Thomas Green Morton | 1944-07-18 |
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Buffalo Bill | William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody | 1944-04-02 |
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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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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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Sullivan's Travels | John Sullivan | 1941-11-30 |
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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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Breakdowns of 1940 | Self | 1940-12-31 |
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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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They Shall Have Music | Peter McCarthy | 1939-08-18 |
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Three Blind Mice | Van Dam Smith | 1938-06-18 |
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Youth Takes a Fling | Joe Meadows | 1938-09-22 |
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Dead End | Dave | 1937-08-27 |
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Internes Can't Take Money | Jimmie Kildare | 1937-04-16 |
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Wells Fargo | Ramsay MacKay | 1937-12-31 |
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Woman Chases Man | Kenneth Nolan | 1937-05-07 |
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Two in a Crowd | Larry Stevens | 1936-10-03 |
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Banjo on My Knee | Ernie Holley | 1936-12-11 |
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Come and Get It | Richard Glasgow | 1936-11-06 |
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These Three | Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin | 1936-03-18 |
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Adventure in Manhattan | George Melville | 1936-10-08 |
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Barbary Coast | Jim Carmichael | 1935-10-13 |
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Our Little Girl | Donald Middleton | 1935-01-01 |
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Private Worlds | Dr. Alex MacGregor | 1935-04-19 |
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Splendor | Brighton Lorrimore | 1935-11-22 |
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Woman Wanted | Tony | 1935-08-02 |
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Half a Sinner | John Adams | 1934-06-01 |
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Gambling Lady | Garry Madison | 1934-03-08 |
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The Richest Girl in the World | Anthony Travers | 1934-09-21 |
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One Man's Journey | Jimmy Watt | 1933-08-31 |
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Chance at Heaven | Blacky Gorman | 1933-10-27 |
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Scarlet River | Himself (uncredited) | 1933-03-10 |
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The Silver Cord | David Phelps | 1933-05-05 |
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Bed of Roses | Dan | 1933-06-29 |
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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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Rockabye | Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell | 1932-11-25 |
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Bird of Paradise | Johnny Baker | 1932-08-12 |
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The Most Dangerous Game | Robert Rainsford | 1932-09-16 |
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The Lost Squadron | Red | 1932-03-12 |
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The Common Law | John 'Jack' Neville | 1931-07-17 |
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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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Once a Sinner | Tommy Mason | 1931-01-25 |
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Kept Husbands | Richard Brunton | 1931-02-22 |
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Lightnin' | John Marvin | 1930-11-28 |
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Framed | Waiter (uncredited) | 1930-03-16 |
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The Silver Horde | Boyd Emerson | 1930-10-24 |
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The Jazz Age | Todd Sayles | 1929-01-06 |
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Dynamite | Marco | 1929-12-13 |
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The Single Standard | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1929-07-27 |
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So This Is College | Bruce Nolan (uncredited) | 1929-11-08 |
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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 Enemy | Extra (uncredited) | 1927-12-08 |
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The Fair Co-Ed | 1927-10-22 |
