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