Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

Birthday: 1905-11-05

Deathday: 1990-10-20

Place of birth: South Pasadena, California, USA

Also known as: Joel Albert McCrea, Джоэл Маккри

imdb_id: nm0566948

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.

Played in movies:

Sioux Nation

Score: 8.5

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Score: 7.8

Sullivan's Travels

Score: 7.4

One Man's Journey

Score: 7.1

The Silver Cord

Score: 7.1

These Three

Score: 7.1

The Palm Beach Story

Score: 7.0

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

Score: 7.0

Ride the High Country

Score: 7.0

Dead End

Score: 7.0

Foreign Correspondent

Score: 7.0

Colorado Territory

Score: 7.0

The Most Dangerous Game

Score: 6.9

The Outriders

Score: 6.9

Stars in My Crown

Score: 6.9

Come and Get It

Score: 6.8

The More the Merrier

Score: 6.8

Night of 100 Stars

Score: 6.7

Trooper Hook

Score: 6.6

Hollywood Story

Score: 6.6

Barbary Coast

Score: 6.6

The Tall Stranger

Score: 6.6

Primrose Path

Score: 6.5

Union Pacific

Score: 6.5

Ramrod

Score: 6.5

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Score: 6.4

Dynamite

Score: 6.4

Woman Wanted

Score: 6.3

The First Texan

Score: 6.3

Saddle Tramp

Score: 6.3

Wichita

Score: 6.3

Bed of Roses

Score: 6.3

Splendor

Score: 6.3

Girls About Town

Score: 6.3

The Lost Squadron

Score: 6.3

The Great Man's Lady

Score: 6.3

Internes Can't Take Money

Score: 6.3

The Single Standard

Score: 6.2

Border River

Score: 6.2

Rough Shoot

Score: 6.2

Rockabye

Score: 6.2

Gambling Lady

Score: 6.2

Cattle Drive

Score: 6.1

They Shall Have Music

Score: 6.1

Fort Massacre

Score: 6.1

The Virginian

Score: 6.1

Reaching for the Sun

Score: 6.0

Three Blind Mice

Score: 6.0

Cattle Empire

Score: 6.0

Gunsight Ridge

Score: 6.0

The Great American Cowboy

Score: 6.0

Private Worlds

Score: 6.0

Black Horse Canyon

Score: 5.9

Espionage Agent

Score: 5.9

The Great Moment

Score: 5.9

Banjo on My Knee

Score: 5.9

Adventure in Manhattan

Score: 5.8

Buffalo Bill

Score: 5.8

Frenchie

Score: 5.7

Chance at Heaven

Score: 5.7

The Richest Girl in the World

Score: 5.7

The Gunfight at Dodge City

Score: 5.6

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Score: 5.6

South of St. Louis

Score: 5.6

The Oklahoman

Score: 5.6

Woman Chases Man

Score: 5.6

Four Faces West

Score: 5.6

The Lone Hand

Score: 5.6

The Enemy

Score: 5.5

The Fair Co-Ed

Score: 5.5

The Common Law

Score: 5.5

Stranger on Horseback

Score: 5.4

Framed

Score: 5.3

The Divine Lady

Score: 5.3

The Silver Horde

Score: 5.3

The Sport Parade

Score: 5.3

Kept Husbands

Score: 5.3

Wells Fargo

Score: 5.2

He Married His Wife

Score: 5.1

The Crowning Experience

Score: 5.0

Born to Love

Score: 5.0

Bird of Paradise

Score: 5.0

Our Little Girl

Score: 4.8

The San Francisco Story

Score: 4.8

Mustang Country

Score: 4.7

The Unseen

Score: 4.6

So This Is College

Score: 4.6

Scarlet River

Score: 4.5

Breakdowns of 1940

Score: 4.0

Business and Pleasure

Score: 4.0

Lightnin'

Score: 3.7

Cry Blood Apache

Score: 2.3

Youth Takes a Fling

Score: 1.0

The Jazz Age

Score: 0.0

Stars on Horseback

Score: 0.0

Half a Sinner

Score: 0.0

The Young Rounders

Score: 0.0

Once a Sinner

Score: 0.0

Two in a Crowd

Score: 0.0

Dead Man's Curve

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.8

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 6.2

Wichita Town

Score: 4.2