Joel McCrea
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
The Most Dangerous Game
as Robert Rainsford
1932
The Palm Beach Story
as Tom Jeffers
1942
Foreign Correspondent
as John Jones
1940
Dead End
as Dave
1937
Colorado Territory
as Wes McQueen
1949
The Great Moment
as William Thomas Green Morton
1944
Ride the High Country
as Steve Judd
1962
Ramrod
as Dave Nash
1947
Buffalo Bill
as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
1944
Union Pacific
as Jeff Butler
1939
The Unseen
as David Fielding
1945
Sullivan's Travels
as John Sullivan
1941
Four Faces West
as Ross McEwen
1948
Hollywood Story
as Joel McCrea
1951
Primrose Path
as Ed Wallace
1940
The More the Merrier
as Joe Carter
1943
These Three
as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
1936
Internes Can't Take Money
as Jimmie Kildare
1937
Bird of Paradise
as Johnny Baker
1932
Barbary Coast
as Jim Carmichael
1935
