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Joel McCrea
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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), …
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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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Joel McCrea's Filmography
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
as Self (archive footage)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
Mustang Country
as Dan
The Great American Cowboy
as Narrator
Cry Blood Apache
as Pitcalin as an Older Man
Sioux Nation
The Young Rounders
Ride the High Country
as Steve Judd
The Crowning Experience
as Prologue Narrator
The Gunfight at Dodge City
as Bat Masterson
Fort Massacre
as Vinson
Cattle Empire
as John Cord
The Tall Stranger
as Ned Bannon
Gunsight Ridge
as Mike Ryan
Trooper Hook
as Sgt. Clovis Hook
The Oklahoman
as John
The First Texan
as Sam Houston
Wichita
as Wyatt Earp
Stranger on Horseback
as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
Black Horse Canyon
as Del Rockwell
Border River
as Clete Mattson
The Lone Hand
as Zachary Hallock
Rough Shoot
as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
The San Francisco Story
as Rick Nelson
Cattle Drive
as Dan Mathews
Hollywood Story
as Joel McCrea
Frenchie
as Sheriff Tom Banning
Saddle Tramp
as Chuck Conner
Stars in My Crown
as Josiah Doziah Gray
The Outriders
as Will Owen
Colorado Territory
as Wes McQueen
South of St. Louis
as Kip Davis
Four Faces West
as Ross McEwen
Ramrod
as Dave Nash
The Virginian
as The Virginian
The Unseen
as David Fielding
The Great Moment
as William Thomas Green Morton
Buffalo Bill
as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
The More the Merrier
as Joe Carter
Stars on Horseback
The Palm Beach Story
as Tom Jeffers
Sullivan's Travels
as John Sullivan
The Great Man's Lady
as Mr. Sempler
Reaching for the Sun
as Russ Eliot
Breakdowns of 1940
as Self
Foreign Correspondent
as John Jones
Primrose Path
as Ed Wallace
He Married His Wife
as T.H. Randall
Espionage Agent
as Barry Corvall
They Shall Have Music
as Peter McCarthy
Union Pacific
as Jeff Butler
Youth Takes a Fling
as Joe Meadows
Three Blind Mice
as Van Dam Smith
Wells Fargo
as Ramsay MacKay
Dead End
as Dave
Woman Chases Man
as Kenneth Nolan
Internes Can't Take Money
as Jimmie Kildare
Banjo on My Knee
as Ernie Holley
Come and Get It
as Richard Glasgow
Adventure in Manhattan
as George Melville
Two in a Crowd
as Larry Stevens
These Three
as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
Splendor
as Brighton Lorrimore
Barbary Coast
as Jim Carmichael
Woman Wanted
as Tony
Our Little Girl
as Donald Middleton
Private Worlds
as Dr. Alex MacGregor
The Richest Girl in the World
as Anthony Travers
Half a Sinner
as John Adams
Gambling Lady
as Garry Madison
Chance at Heaven
as Blacky Gorman
One Man's Journey
as Jimmy Watt
Bed of Roses
as Dan
The Silver Cord
as David Phelps
Scarlet River
as Himself (uncredited)
Rockabye
as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
The Sport Parade
as Sandy Brown
The Most Dangerous Game
as Robert Rainsford
Bird of Paradise
as Johnny Baker
The Lost Squadron
as Red
Business and Pleasure
as Lawrence Ogle
Girls About Town
as Jim Baker
The Common Law
as John 'Jack' Neville
Born to Love
as Barry Craig
Kept Husbands
as Richard 'Dick' Brunton
Once a Sinner
as Tommy Mason
Lightnin'
as John Marvin
The Silver Horde
as Boyd Emerson
Framed
as Waiter (uncredited)
Dynamite
as Marco
So This Is College
as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
The Single Standard
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Jazz Age
as Todd Sayles
The Divine Lady
as Extra (uncredited)
Dead Man's Curve
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
The Enemy
as Extra (uncredited)
