Joel McCrea
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.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1905-11-05 · South Pasadena, California, USA
- Died
- 1990-10-20
Known for
- Sullivan's Travels (1941) — John Sullivan
- Foreign Correspondent (1940) — John Jones
- The Most Dangerous Game (1932) — Robert Rainsford
- Ride the High Country (1962) — Steve Judd
- The Palm Beach Story (1942) — Tom Jeffers
- Dead End (1937) — Dave
- The More the Merrier (1943) — Joe Carter
- Union Pacific (1939) — Jeff Butler
- Colorado Territory (1949) — Wes McQueen
- Wichita (1955) — Wyatt Earp
- Ramrod (1947) — Dave Nash
- Stars in My Crown (1950) — Josiah Doziah Gray
- These Three (1936) — Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
- Come and Get It (1936) — Richard Glasgow
- Barbary Coast (1935) — Jim Carmichael
- Buffalo Bill (1944) — William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody