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Joel McCrea

Personal Information

Known ForActing
GenderMale
Born / DiedNov 5, 1905 (Died at 85)
Zodiac Sign♏Scorpio
Place of BirthSouth Pasadena, California, USA
Career Span1923 – 1990
Known Credits105 Titles
Official Links
ActingPopularity Score 1.7

Joel McCrea

Also known as:Joel Albert McCreaДжоэл Маккри
Total Works

105

102 movies • 3 shows

Avg Rating

6.2 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

—

worldwide gross

Global Reach

#2

TMDB star index

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.

Signature Roles & Milestones

Sullivan's Travels
7.4
Sullivan's Travels
1941•movie
as John Sullivan
Foreign Correspondent
7.0
as John Jones
The Most Dangerous Game
6.9
as Robert Rainsford
Ride the High Country
7.1
as Steve Judd

Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 105 titles featuring Joel McCrea

Sullivan's Travels
7.4
Sullivan's Travels
1941•movie

as John Sullivan

Foreign Correspondent
7.0

as John Jones

The Most Dangerous Game
6.9

as Robert Rainsford

Ride the High Country
7.1

as Steve Judd

The Palm Beach Story
7.0

as Tom Jeffers

Dead End
7.0
Dead End
1937•movie

as Dave

The More the Merrier
6.9

as Joe Carter

Union Pacific
6.7
Union Pacific
1939•movie

as Jeff Butler

Colorado Territory
7.0
Colorado Territory
1949•movie

as Wes McQueen

Wichita
6.4
Wichita
1955•movie

as Wyatt Earp

Ramrod
6.5
Ramrod
1947•movie

as Dave Nash

Stars in My Crown
7.1
Stars in My Crown
1950•movie

as Josiah Doziah Gray

These Three
7.1
These Three
1936•movie

as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin

Come and Get It
6.8
Come and Get It
1936•movie

as Richard Glasgow

Barbary Coast
6.4
Barbary Coast
1935•movie

as Jim Carmichael

Buffalo Bill
5.8
Buffalo Bill
1944•movie

as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Bird of Paradise
5.0
Bird of Paradise
1932•movie

as Johnny Baker

The Virginian
6.0
The Virginian
1946•movie

as The Virginian

Kept Husbands
5.3
Kept Husbands
1931•movie

as Richard 'Dick' Brunton

Primrose Path
6.7
Primrose Path
1940•movie

as Ed Wallace

Stranger on Horseback
5.8

as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne

The Divine Lady
5.3
The Divine Lady
1928•movie

as Extra (uncredited)

Fort Massacre
6.2
Fort Massacre
1958•movie

as Vinson

The Great Moment
5.9
The Great Moment
1944•movie

as William Thomas Green Morton

The Unseen
4.7
The Unseen
1945•movie

as David Fielding

Four Faces West
5.8
Four Faces West
1948•movie

as Ross McEwen

Hollywood Story
6.7
Hollywood Story
1951•movie

as Joel McCrea

The Gunfight at Dodge City
5.7

as Bat Masterson

The Tall Stranger
6.5
The Tall Stranger
1957•movie

as Ned Bannon

The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
1 eps

as Self

Border River
6.2
Border River
1954•movie

as Clete Mattson

Gambling Lady
6.2
Gambling Lady
1934•movie

as Garry Madison

Internes Can't Take Money
6.5

as Jimmie Kildare

Trooper Hook
6.7
Trooper Hook
1957•movie

as Sgt. Clovis Hook

South of St. Louis
5.8
South of St. Louis
1949•movie

as Kip Davis

The Lost Squadron
6.5
The Lost Squadron
1932•movie

as Red

Cattle Empire
6.2
Cattle Empire
1958•movie

as John Cord

Banjo on My Knee
5.8
Banjo on My Knee
1936•movie

as Ernie Holley

Adventure in Manhattan
6.1

as George Melville

The Richest Girl in the World
5.8

as Anthony Travers

Cattle Drive
6.5
Cattle Drive
1951•movie

as Dan Mathews

The Silver Horde
5.6
The Silver Horde
1930•movie

as Boyd Emerson

Wells Fargo
5.5
Wells Fargo
1937•movie

as Ramsay MacKay

Bed of Roses
6.1
Bed of Roses
1933•movie

as Dan

The Outriders
7.2
The Outriders
1950•movie

as Will Owen

Dynamite
6.4
Dynamite
1929•movie

as Marco

Cry Blood Apache
2.5
Cry Blood Apache
1970•movie

as Pitcalin as an Older Man

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
6.1

as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)

Framed
5.3
Framed
1930•movie

as Waiter (uncredited)

The Oklahoman
5.8
The Oklahoman
1957•movie

as John

The Common Law
5.4
The Common Law
1931•movie

as John 'Jack' Neville

Gunsight Ridge
6.0
Gunsight Ridge
1957•movie

as Mike Ryan

The Great Man's Lady
6.3

as Mr. Sempler

Chance at Heaven
5.8
Chance at Heaven
1933•movie

as Blacky Gorman

One Man's Journey
6.7
One Man's Journey
1933•movie

as Jimmy Watt

Frenchie
6.0
Frenchie
1950•movie

as Sheriff Tom Banning

The Merv Griffin Show
6.8
1 eps

as Self

Girls About Town
6.6
Girls About Town
1931•movie

as Jim Baker

Rockabye
6.5
Rockabye
1932•movie

as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell

Saddle Tramp
6.5
Saddle Tramp
1950•movie

as Chuck Conner

They Shall Have Music
6.5

as Peter McCarthy

Espionage Agent
6.3
Espionage Agent
1939•movie

as Barry Corvall

The First Texan
6.7
The First Texan
1956•movie

as Sam Houston

The Lone Hand
5.7
The Lone Hand
1953•movie

as Zachary Hallock

Our Little Girl
5.3
Our Little Girl
1935•movie

as Donald Middleton

Black Horse Canyon
5.8
Black Horse Canyon
1954•movie

as Del Rockwell

Torrent
6.7
Torrent
1926•movie

Role: Stunts

Woman Chases Man
5.9
Woman Chases Man
1937•movie

as Kenneth Nolan

Private Worlds
6.4
Private Worlds
1935•movie

as Dr. Alex MacGregor

The Sport Parade
5.3
The Sport Parade
1932•movie

as Sandy Brown

So This Is College
4.7
So This Is College
1929•movie

as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)

He Married His Wife
5.6

as T.H. Randall

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
8.0

as Self (archive footage)

The Silver Cord
7.2
The Silver Cord
1933•movie

as David Phelps

The San Francisco Story
4.9

as Rick Nelson

Woman Wanted
6.8
Woman Wanted
1935•movie

as Tony

The Single Standard
5.8

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Splendor
6.7
Splendor
1935•movie

as Brighton Lorrimore

Three Blind Mice
6.1
Three Blind Mice
1938•movie

as Van Dam Smith

Born to Love
5.3
Born to Love
1931•movie

as Barry Craig

Rough Shoot
6.7
Rough Shoot
1953•movie

as Lt. Col. Robert Taine

The Great American Cowboy
6.6

as Narrator

Scarlet River
5.6
Scarlet River
1933•movie

as Himself (uncredited)

Night of 100 Stars
5.8
Night of 100 Stars
1982•movie

as Self

Mustang Country
5.5
Mustang Country
1976•movie

as Dan

Lightnin'
5.2
Lightnin'
1930•movie

as John Marvin

Wichita Town
4.9
26 eps
Wichita Town
1959•series

as Marshal Mike Dunbar

The Fair Co-Ed
6.7
The Fair Co-Ed
1927•movie
Business and Pleasure
6.3

as Lawrence Ogle

Reaching for the Sun
7.3

as Russ Eliot

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
7.7

as Self (archive footage)

The Enemy
6.3
The Enemy
1927•movie

as Extra (uncredited)

Penrod and Sam
7.5
Penrod and Sam
1923•movie

Role: Stunts

Youth Takes a Fling
5.5

as Joe Meadows

Sioux Nation
7.8
Sioux Nation
1970•movie
The Crowning Experience
6.5

as Prologue Narrator

Stars on Horseback
5.0
Stars on Horseback
1943•movie
Dead Man's Curve
9.0
Dead Man's Curve
1928•movie

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Two in a Crowd
8.0
Two in a Crowd
1936•movie

as Larry Stevens

Once a Sinner
8.0
Once a Sinner
1931•movie

as Tommy Mason

The Young Rounders
7.0
The Young Rounders
1966•movie
Breakdowns of 1940
4.0
Breakdowns of 1940
1940•movie

as Self

Half a Sinner
8.0
Half a Sinner
1934•movie

as John Adams

The Jazz Age
8.0
The Jazz Age
1929•movie

as Todd Sayles