Acting credits
103
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Joel McCrea
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 102Series: 3Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 20501
IMDb ID: nm0566948
Known for: Acting
Born: November 5, 1905
Died: October 20, 1990
Age: 84
Place of birth: South Pasadena, California, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1923 - 2008
Years active: 86
Average TMDB rating: 6.31
Wikidata: Q436784
Also known as
Joel Albert McCrea • Джоэл Маккри
Other jobs
Stunts (2)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Joel McCrea.
6.1
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
2008 Movie
7.8
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004 Movie
7.5
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
1997 Movie
5.6
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
1985 Movie
6.7
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982 Movie
4.7
Mustang Country
as Dan
1976 Movie
6.0
The Great American Cowboy
as Narrator
1973 Movie
2.2
Cry Blood Apache
as Pitcalin as an Older Man
1970 Movie
8.5
Sioux Nation
1970 Movie
The Young Rounders
1966 Movie
7.1
Ride the High Country
as Steve Judd
1962 Movie
5.0
The Crowning Experience
as Prologue Narrator
1960 Movie
5.6
The Gunfight at Dodge City
as Bat Masterson
1959 Movie
6.0
Fort Massacre
as Vinson
1958 Movie
6.0
Cattle Empire
as John Cord
1958 Movie
6.5
The Tall Stranger
as Ned Bannon
1957 Movie
5.7
Gunsight Ridge
as Mike Ryan
1957 Movie
6.8
Trooper Hook
as Sgt. Clovis Hook
1957 Movie
5.6
The Oklahoman
as John
1957 Movie
6.3
The First Texan
as Sam Houston
1956 Movie
6.4
Wichita
as Wyatt Earp
1955 Movie
5.5
Stranger on Horseback
as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
1955 Movie
5.9
Black Horse Canyon
as Del Rockwell
1954 Movie
6.2
Border River
as Clete Mattson
1954 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Joel McCrea.
