
Joel McCrea
- Date of Birth: 1905-11-05
- Date of Death: 1990-10-20
- 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, ad... 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.

The Enemy
Drama, Romance, War • 1927 December

The Common Law
Drama • 1931 July

Stranger on Horseback
Western • 1955 March

The Divine Lady
Drama, History, Romance, War • 1928 December

The Sport Parade
Drama, Romance • 1932 November

Framed
Adventure, Crime • 1930 March

The Silver Horde
Drama • 1930 October

Kept Husbands
Drama • 1931 February

The Lone Hand
Western • 1953 May

Wells Fargo
History, Western • 1937 December