As Actor
The Outriders
1950
6.9
Joel McCrea
Acting
Birth Date
November 5, 1905
Place of Birth
South Pasadena, California, USA
Date of Death
October 20, 1990
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.
Complete Filmography
As Actor
The Virginian
1946
6.0
As Actor
The Unseen
1945
4.6
As Actor
The Great Moment
1944
5.9
As Actor
The More the Merrier
1943
6.8
As Actor
Sullivan's Travels
1941
7.4
As Actor
Reaching for the Sun
1941
6.0
As Actor
Foreign Correspondent
1940
7.0
As Actor
Primrose Path
1940
6.6
As Actor
Union Pacific
1939
6.6
As Actor
Dead End
1937
7.0
As Actor
Woman Chases Man
1937
5.6
As Actor
Banjo on My Knee
1936
5.9
As Actor
Adventure in Manhattan
1936
5.8
As Actor
Barbary Coast
1935
6.6
As Actor
Private Worlds
1935
6.0
As Actor
Chance at Heaven
1933
5.7
As Actor
One Man's Journey
1933
7.1
As Actor
The Silver Cord
1933
7.1
As Actor
The Most Dangerous Game
1932
6.9