
Joel McCrea
Known for: Acting
Born: November 5, 1905
Died: October 20, 1990
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 roman…
Known for

The Most Dangerous Game
1932

Foreign Correspondent
1940

Colorado Territory
1949

The Great Moment
1944

Ramrod
1947

Buffalo Bill
1944

The Unseen
1945

Sullivan's Travels
1941

Four Faces West
1948

Fort Massacre
1958

The Gunfight at Dodge City
1959

The Virginian
1946

The Oklahoman
1957

Espionage Agent
1939

Rough Shoot
1953

Trooper Hook
1957

Stranger on Horseback
1955

Stars in My Crown
1950

The Sport Parade
1932

Border River
1954

Wells Fargo
1937

Cattle Drive
1951

The Great American Cowboy
1973

The Tall Stranger
1957

Wichita
1955

Saddle Tramp
1950

The First Texan
1956

The Outriders
1950

South of St. Louis
1949

Gunsight Ridge
1957

The Lone Hand
1953

The San Francisco Story
1952

He Married His Wife
1940

Frenchie
1950

Mustang Country
1976

Cattle Empire
1958

Reaching for the Sun
1941

Youth Takes a Fling
1938

Black Horse Canyon
1954

The Young Rounders
1966

Sioux Nation
1970

The Palm Beach Story
1942

Dead End
1937

Ride the High Country
1962

Union Pacific
1939

Primrose Path
1940

The More the Merrier
1943

Internes Can't Take Money
1937

Bird of Paradise
1932

Come and Get It
1936

The Great Man's Lady
1941

Adventure in Manhattan
1936

Girls About Town
1931

The Silver Cord
1933

Woman Chases Man
1937

Kept Husbands
1931

Born to Love
1931

Rockabye
1932

Splendor
1935

The Richest Girl in the World
1934

Chance at Heaven
1933

Bed of Roses
1933

Gambling Lady
1934

The Common Law
1931

They Shall Have Music
1939

Banjo on My Knee
1936

Woman Wanted
1935

Three Blind Mice
1938

Two in a Crowd
1936

Once a Sinner
1931

Half a Sinner
1934

These Three
1936

Barbary Coast
1935

Business and Pleasure
1932

Our Little Girl
1935

Lightnin'
1930

One Man's Journey
1933

The Lost Squadron
1932

Private Worlds
1935

Dynamite
1929

Breakdowns of 1940
1940

The Jazz Age
1929

The Fair Co-Ed
1927

Dead Man's Curve
1928

Cry Blood Apache
1970

Framed
1930

Stars on Horseback
1943

The Silver Horde
1930

The Single Standard
1929

The Crowning Experience
1960

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985

The Enemy
1927

Hollywood Story
1951

The Divine Lady
1928

So This Is College
1929

Scarlet River
1933

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997

Wichita Town
1959

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Night of 100 Stars
1982