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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Known For
The Most Dangerous Game
(1932)
Robert Rainsford
Foreign Correspondent
(1940)
John Jones
Sullivan's Travels
(1941)
John Sullivan
Dead End
(1937)
Dave
Union Pacific
(1939)
Jeff Butler
Wichita
(1955)
Wyatt Earp
Ride the High Country
(1962)
Steve Judd
The Palm Beach Story
(1942)
Tom Jeffers
Private Worlds
(1935)
Dr. Alex MacGregor
Barbary Coast
(1935)
Jim Carmichael
These Three
(1936)
Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
The Virginian
(1946)
The Virginian
Cry Blood Apache
(1970)
Pitcalin as an Older Man
Gunsight Ridge
(1957)
Mike Ryan
Bird of Paradise
(1932)
Johnny Baker
The Outriders
(1950)
Will Owen
Full Filmography
Acting
The Fair Co-Ed
(1927)
The Enemy
(1927)
Extra (uncredited)
Dead Man's Curve
(1928)
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
The Divine Lady
(1928)
Extra (uncredited)
So This Is College
(1929)
Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
Dynamite
(1929)
Marco
The Single Standard
(1929)
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lightnin'
(1930)
John Marvin
The Silver Horde
(1930)
Boyd Emerson
Born to Love
(1931)
Barry Craig
Kept Husbands
(1931)
Richard Brunton
The Common Law
(1931)
John 'Jack' Neville
Girls About Town
(1931)
Jim Baker
Once a Sinner
(1931)
Tommy Mason
Rockabye
(1932)
Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
Business and Pleasure
(1932)
Lawrence Ogle
The Sport Parade
(1932)
Sandy Brown
The Lost Squadron
(1932)
Red
The Most Dangerous Game
(1932)
Robert Rainsford
Bird of Paradise
(1932)
Johnny Baker
Scarlet River
(1933)
Himself (uncredited)
Chance at Heaven
(1933)
Blacky Gorman
One Man's Journey
(1933)
Jimmy Watt
Bed of Roses
(1933)
Dan
The Silver Cord
(1933)
David Phelps
The Richest Girl in the World
(1934)
Anthony Travers
Gambling Lady
(1934)
Garry Madison
Half a Sinner
(1934)
John Adams
Barbary Coast
(1935)
Jim Carmichael
Woman Wanted
(1935)
Tony
Splendor
(1935)
Brighton Lorrimore
Private Worlds
(1935)
Dr. Alex MacGregor
Our Little Girl
(1935)
Donald Middleton
These Three
(1936)
Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
Come and Get It
(1936)
Richard Glasgow
Adventure in Manhattan
(1936)
George Melville
Banjo on My Knee
(1936)
Ernie Holley
Two in a Crowd
(1936)
Larry Stevens
Internes Can't Take Money
(1937)
Jimmie Kildare
Woman Chases Man
(1937)
Kenneth Nolan
Wells Fargo
(1937)
Ramsay MacKay
Dead End
(1937)
Dave
Youth Takes a Fling
(1938)
Joe Meadows
Three Blind Mice
(1938)
Van Dam Smith
Espionage Agent
(1939)
Barry Corvall
Union Pacific
(1939)
Jeff Butler
They Shall Have Music
(1939)
Peter McCarthy
Breakdowns of 1940
(1940)
Self
Foreign Correspondent
(1940)
John Jones
Primrose Path
(1940)
Ed Wallace
He Married His Wife
(1940)
T.H. Randall
Sullivan's Travels
(1941)
John Sullivan
Reaching for the Sun
(1941)
Russ Eliot
The Great Man's Lady
(1942)
Mr. Sempler
The Palm Beach Story
(1942)
Tom Jeffers
The More the Merrier
(1943)
Joe Carter
Stars on Horseback
(1943)
The Great Moment
(1944)
William Thomas Green Morton
Buffalo Bill
(1944)
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
The Unseen
(1945)
David Fielding
The Virginian
(1946)
The Virginian
Ramrod
(1947)
Dave Nash
Four Faces West
(1948)
Ross McEwen
Colorado Territory
(1949)
Wes McQueen
South of St. Louis
(1949)
Kip Davis
The Outriders
(1950)
Will Owen
Saddle Tramp
(1950)
Chuck Conner
Frenchie
(1950)
Sheriff Tom Banning
Stars in My Crown
(1950)
Josiah Doziah Gray
Cattle Drive
(1951)
Dan Mathews
Hollywood Story
(1951)
Joel McCrea
The San Francisco Story
(1952)
Rick Nelson
The Lone Hand
(1953)
Zachary Hallock
Rough Shoot
(1953)
Lt. Col. Robert Taine
Border River
(1954)
Clete Mattson
Black Horse Canyon
(1954)
Del Rockwell
Wichita
(1955)
Wyatt Earp
Stranger on Horseback
(1955)
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
The First Texan
(1956)
Sam Houston
Gunsight Ridge
(1957)
Mike Ryan
The Tall Stranger
(1957)
Ned Bannon
Trooper Hook
(1957)
Sgt. Clovis Hook
The Oklahoman
(1957)
John
Fort Massacre
(1958)
Vinson
Cattle Empire
(1958)
John Cord
The Gunfight at Dodge City
(1959)
Bat Masterson
The Crowning Experience
(1960)
Prologue Narrator
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
(1961)
'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ride the High Country
(1962)
Steve Judd
The Young Rounders
(1966)
Sioux Nation
(1970)
Cry Blood Apache
(1970)
Pitcalin as an Older Man
The Great American Cowboy
(1973)
Narrator
Mustang Country
(1976)
Dan
Night of 100 Stars
(1982)
Self
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
(1985)
Self
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
(1997)
Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
(2004)
Self (archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
(2008)
John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
Crew