Joel McCrea
ActingBorn
November 5, 1905
Died
October 20, 1990
Place of Birth
South Pasadena, California, USA
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), Pr…
Known For
Filmography
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
Cattle Empire
1958
The Tall Stranger
1957
Gunsight Ridge
1957
Trooper Hook
1957
The Oklahoman
1957
The First Texan
1956
Wichita
1955
Stranger on Horseback
1955
Black Horse Canyon
1954
Border River
1954
The Lone Hand
1953
Rough Shoot
1953
The San Francisco Story
1952
Cattle Drive
1951
Hollywood Story
1951
Frenchie
1950
Saddle Tramp
1950
Stars in My Crown
1950
The Outriders
1950
Colorado Territory
1949
South of St. Louis
1949
Four Faces West
1948
Ramrod
1947
The Virginian
1946
The Unseen
1945
The Great Moment
1944
Buffalo Bill
1944
The More the Merrier
1943
Stars on Horseback
1943
The Palm Beach Story
1942
Sullivan's Travels
1941
The Great Man's Lady
1941
Reaching for the Sun
1941
Breakdowns of 1940
1940
Foreign Correspondent
1940
Primrose Path
1940
He Married His Wife
1940
Espionage Agent
1939
They Shall Have Music
1939
Union Pacific
1939
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
Three Blind Mice
1938
Wells Fargo
1937
Dead End
1937
Woman Chases Man
1937
Internes Can't Take Money
1937
Banjo on My Knee
1936
Come and Get It
1936
Adventure in Manhattan
1936
Two in a Crowd
1936
These Three
1936
Splendor
1935
Barbary Coast
1935
Woman Wanted
1935
Private Worlds
1935
Our Little Girl
1935
The Richest Girl in the World
1934
Half a Sinner
1934
Gambling Lady
1934
Chance at Heaven
1933
One Man's Journey
1933
Bed of Roses
1933
The Silver Cord
1933
Scarlet River
1933
Rockabye
1932
The Sport Parade
1932
The Most Dangerous Game
1932
Bird of Paradise
1932
The Lost Squadron
1932
Business and Pleasure
1932
Girls About Town
1931
The Common Law
1931
Born to Love
1931
Kept Husbands
1931
Once a Sinner
1931
Lightnin'
1930
The Silver Horde
1930
Framed
1930
Dynamite
1929
So This Is College
1929
The Single Standard
1929
The Jazz Age
1929
The Divine Lady
1928
Dead Man's Curve
1928
The Enemy
1927
The Fair Co-Ed
1927