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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Trooper Hook | Sgt. Clovis Hook | 1957-07-12 |
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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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Gunsight Ridge | Mike Ryan | 1957-09-01 |
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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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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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Hollywood Story | Joel McCrea | 1951-06-01 |
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Cattle Drive | Dan Mathews | 1951-08-01 |
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The Outriders | Will Owen | 1950-03-01 |
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Frenchie | Sheriff Tom Banning | 1950-12-25 |
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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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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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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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Stars on Horseback | 1943-04-23 | |
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The More the Merrier | Joe Carter | 1943-05-13 |
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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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Reaching for the Sun | Russ Eliot | 1941-05-01 |
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The Great Man's Lady | Mr. Sempler | 1941-10-31 |
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Breakdowns of 1940 | Self | 1940-12-31 |
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He Married His Wife | T.H. Randall | 1940-01-19 |
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Primrose Path | Ed Wallace | 1940-03-22 |
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Foreign Correspondent | John Jones | 1940-08-16 |
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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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Union Pacific | Jeff Butler | 1939-05-05 |
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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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Internes Can't Take Money | Jimmie Kildare | 1937-04-16 |
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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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These Three | Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin | 1936-03-18 |
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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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Adventure in Manhattan | George Melville | 1936-10-08 |
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Private Worlds | Dr. Alex MacGregor | 1935-04-19 |
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Our Little Girl | Donald Middleton | 1935-01-01 |
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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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Splendor | Brighton Lorrimore | 1935-11-22 |
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The Richest Girl in the World | Anthony Travers | 1934-09-21 |
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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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Scarlet River | Himself (uncredited) | 1933-03-10 |
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One Man's Journey | Jimmy Watt | 1933-08-31 |
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Bed of Roses | Dan | 1933-06-29 |
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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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The Sport Parade | Sandy Brown | 1932-11-11 |
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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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Bird of Paradise | Johnny Baker | 1932-08-12 |
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Rockabye | Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell | 1932-11-25 |
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Business and Pleasure | Lawrence Ogle | 1932-02-24 |
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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 'Dick' Brunton | 1931-02-22 |
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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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Framed | Waiter (uncredited) | 1930-03-16 |
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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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The Jazz Age | Todd Sayles | 1929-01-06 |
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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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Dead Man's Curve | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) | 1928-01-15 |
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The Divine Lady | Extra (uncredited) | 1928-12-26 |
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The Fair Co-Ed | 1927-10-22 | |
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The Enemy | Extra (uncredited) | 1927-12-08 |
