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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.
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The roles that explain the career.
80 credits across 2 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | John Neville Jr. (archive footage) | Film |
| 1985 | George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | Self | Film |
| 1976 | Mustang Country | Dan | Film |
| 1973 | The Great American Cowboy | Narrator | Film |
| 1970 | Cry Blood Apache | Pitcalin as an Older Man | Film |
| 1966 | The Young Rounders | Film | |
| 1962 | Ride the High Country | Steve Judd | Film |
| 1959 | The Gunfight at Dodge City | Bat Masterson | Film |
| 1958 | Fort Massacre | Vinson | Film |
| 1957 | Trooper Hook | Sgt. Clovis Hook | Film |
| 1957 | The Oklahoman | John | Film |
| 1957 | The Tall Stranger | Ned Bannon | Film |
| 1957 | Gunsight Ridge | Mike Ryan | Film |
| 1956 | The First Texan | Sam Houston | Film |
| 1955 | Stranger on Horseback | Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne | Film |
| 1955 | Wichita | Wyatt Earp | Film |
| 1954 | Border River | Clete Mattson | Film |
| 1954 | Black Horse Canyon | Del Rockwell | Film |
| 1953 | Rough Shoot | Lt. Col. Robert Taine | Film |
| 1953 | The Lone Hand | Zachary Hallock | Film |
| 1952 | The San Francisco Story | Rick Nelson | Film |
| 1951 | Cattle Drive | Dan Mathews | Film |
| 1951 | Hollywood Story | Joel McCrea | Film |
| 1950 | Stars in My Crown | Josiah Doziah Gray | Film |
| 1950 | Saddle Tramp | Chuck Conner | Film |
| 1950 | The Outriders | Will Owen | Film |
| 1950 | Frenchie | Sheriff Tom Banning | Film |
| 1949 | Colorado Territory | Wes McQueen | Film |
| 1949 | South of St. Louis | Kip Davis | Film |
| 1948 | Four Faces West | Ross McEwen | Film |
| 1947 | Ramrod | Dave Nash | Film |
| 1946 | The Virginian | The Virginian | Film |
| 1945 | The Unseen | David Fielding | Film |
| 1944 | Buffalo Bill | William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody | Film |
| 1944 | The Great Moment | William Thomas Green Morton | Film |
| 1943 | The More the Merrier | Joe Carter | Film |
| 1942 | The Palm Beach Story | Tom Jeffers | Film |
| 1941 | Sullivan's Travels | John Sullivan | Film |
| 1941 | Reaching for the Sun | Russ Eliot | Film |
| 1941 | The Great Man's Lady | Mr. Sempler | Film |
| 1941 | Sullivan's Travels | John Sullivan | Film |
| 1940 | He Married His Wife | T.H. Randall | Film |
| 1940 | Primrose Path | Ed Wallace | Film |
| 1940 | Foreign Correspondent | John Jones | Film |
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Jeff Butler | Film |
| 1939 | Espionage Agent | Barry Corvall | Film |
| 1939 | They Shall Have Music | Peter McCarthy | Film |
| 1938 | Youth Takes a Fling | Joe Meadows | Film |
| 1937 | Dead End | Dave | Film |
| 1937 | Woman Chases Man | Kenneth Nolan | Film |
| 1937 | Internes Can't Take Money | Jimmie Kildare | Film |
| 1937 | Wells Fargo | Ramsay MacKay | Film |
| 1936 | Banjo on My Knee | Ernie Holley | Film |
| 1936 | Adventure in Manhattan | George Melville | Film |
| 1936 | These Three | Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin | Film |
| 1936 | Come and Get It | Richard Glasgow | Film |
| 1935 | Barbary Coast | Jim Carmichael | Film |
| 1935 | Private Worlds | Dr. Alex MacGregor | Film |
| 1935 | Splendor | Brighton Lorrimore | Film |
| 1935 | Our Little Girl | Donald Middleton | Film |
| 1934 | Gambling Lady | Garry Madison | Film |
| 1934 | The Richest Girl in the World | Anthony Travers | Film |
| 1933 | The Silver Cord | David Phelps | Film |
| 1933 | Chance at Heaven | Blacky Gorman | Film |
| 1933 | Bed of Roses | Dan | Film |
| 1932 | The Most Dangerous Game | Robert Rainsford | Film |
| 1932 | Bird of Paradise | Johnny Baker | Film |
| 1932 | The Lost Squadron | Red | Film |
| 1932 | Rockabye | Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell | Film |
| 1932 | The Sport Parade | Sandy Brown | Film |
| 1931 | The Common Law | John 'Jack' Neville | Film |
| 1931 | Girls About Town | Jim Baker | Film |
| 1931 | Kept Husbands | Richard 'Dick' Brunton | Film |
| 1931 | Born to Love | Barry Craig | Film |
| 1930 | Framed | Waiter (uncredited) | Film |
| 1930 | The Silver Horde | Boyd Emerson | Film |
| 1929 | The Single Standard | Party Guest (uncredited) | Film |
| 1929 | So This Is College | Bruce Nolan (uncredited) | Film |
| 1929 | Dynamite | Marco | Film |
| 1928 | The Divine Lady | Extra (uncredited) | Film |
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