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.

Filmography

• 2008Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood — John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
• 1976Mustang Country — Dan
• 1973The Great American Cowboy — Narrator
• 1970Cry Blood Apache — Pitcalin as an Older Man
• 1970Sioux Nation
• 1966The Young Rounders
• 1962Ride the High Country — Steve Judd
• 1960The Crowning Experience — Prologue Narrator
• 1959The Gunfight at Dodge City — Bat Masterson
• Wichita Town — Marshal Mike Dunbar
• 1958Cattle Empire — John Cord
• 1958Fort Massacre — Vinson
• 1957Gunsight Ridge — Mike Ryan
• 1957The Oklahoman — John
• 1957The Tall Stranger — Ned Bannon
• 1957Trooper Hook — Sgt. Clovis Hook
• 1956The First Texan — Sam Houston
• 1955Stranger on Horseback — Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
• 1955Wichita — Wyatt Earp
• 1954Black Horse Canyon — Del Rockwell
• 1954Border River — Clete Mattson
• 1953Rough Shoot — Lt. Col. Robert Taine
• 1953The Lone Hand — Zachary Hallock
• 1952The San Francisco Story — Rick Nelson
• 1951Cattle Drive — Dan Mathews
• 1951Hollywood Story — Joel McCrea
• 1950Frenchie — Sheriff Tom Banning
• 1950Saddle Tramp — Chuck Conner
• 1950Stars in My Crown — Josiah Doziah Gray
• 1950The Outriders — Will Owen
• 1949Colorado Territory — Wes McQueen
• 1949South of St. Louis — Kip Davis
• 1948Four Faces West — Ross McEwen
• 1947Ramrod — Dave Nash
• 1946The Virginian — The Virginian
• 1945The Unseen — David Fielding
• 1944Buffalo Bill — William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
• 1944The Great Moment — William Thomas Green Morton
• 1943Stars on Horseback
• 1943The More the Merrier — Joe Carter
• 1942The Palm Beach Story — Tom Jeffers
• 1941Reaching for the Sun — Russ Eliot
• 1941Sullivan's Travels — John Sullivan
• 1941The Great Man's Lady — Mr. Sempler
• 1940Foreign Correspondent — John Jones
• 1940He Married His Wife — T.H. Randall
• 1940Primrose Path — Ed Wallace
• 1939Espionage Agent — Barry Corvall
• 1939They Shall Have Music — Peter McCarthy
• 1939Union Pacific — Jeff Butler
• 1938Three Blind Mice — Van Dam Smith
• 1938Youth Takes a Fling — Joe Meadows
• 1937Dead End — Dave
• 1937Internes Can't Take Money — Jimmie Kildare
• 1937Wells Fargo — Ramsay MacKay
• 1937Woman Chases Man — Kenneth Nolan
• 1936Adventure in Manhattan — George Melville
• 1936Banjo on My Knee — Ernie Holley
• 1936Come and Get It — Richard Glasgow
• 1936These Three — Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
• 1936Two in a Crowd — Larry Stevens
• 1935Barbary Coast — Jim Carmichael
• 1935Our Little Girl — Donald Middleton
• 1935Private Worlds — Dr. Alex MacGregor
• 1935Splendor — Brighton Lorrimore
• 1935Woman Wanted — Tony
• 1934Gambling Lady — Garry Madison
• 1934Half a Sinner — John Adams
• 1934The Richest Girl in the World — Anthony Travers
• 1933Bed of Roses — Dan
• 1933Chance at Heaven — Blacky Gorman
• 1933One Man's Journey — Jimmy Watt
• 1933The Silver Cord — David Phelps
• 1932Bird of Paradise — Johnny Baker
• 1932Business and Pleasure — Lawrence Ogle
• 1932Rockabye — Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
• 1932The Lost Squadron — Red
• 1932The Most Dangerous Game — Robert Rainsford
• 1932The Sport Parade — Sandy Brown
• 1931Born to Love — Barry Craig
• 1931Girls About Town — Jim Baker
• 1931Kept Husbands — Richard 'Dick' Brunton
• 1931Once a Sinner — Tommy Mason
• 1931The Common Law — John 'Jack' Neville
• 1930Framed — Waiter (uncredited)
• 1930Lightnin' — John Marvin
• 1930The Silver Horde — Boyd Emerson
• 1929Dynamite — Marco
• 1929So This Is College — Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
• 1929The Jazz Age — Todd Sayles
• 1929The Single Standard — Party Guest (uncredited)
• 1928Dead Man's Curve — Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• 1928The Divine Lady — Extra (uncredited)
• 1927The Enemy — Extra (uncredited)
• 1927The Fair Co-Ed
• 1926Torrent — Stunts
• 1924A Self-Made Failure — Stunts
• 1923Penrod and Sam — Stunts

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self (archive footage)
• 1997Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line — Self (archive footage)
• 1985George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey — Self
• 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• 1940Breakdowns of 1940 — Self
• 1933Scarlet River — Himself (uncredited)