Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1905-11-05
Day of Death
1990-10-20
Place of Birth
South Pasadena, California, USA
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.
Filmography (100)
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
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
Night of 100 Stars
1982
Mustang Country
1976
The Great American Cowboy
1973
Cry Blood Apache
1970
Sioux Nation
1970
The Young Rounders
1966
Ride the High Country
1962
The Crowning Experience
1960
The Gunfight at Dodge City
1959
Fort Massacre
1958
