Joel McCrea

from South Pasadena, California, USA

Artwork for Sullivan's TravelsImage of Joel McCrea

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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Timeline

2008Aged 103

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

    John Neville Jr. (archive footage)

2004Aged 99

  • Poster for Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Self (archive footage)

1997Aged 92

  • Poster for Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

    Self (archive footage)

1985Aged 80

  • Poster for George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

    Self

1982Aged 77

  • Poster for Night of 100 Stars

    Self

1976Aged 71

  • Poster for Mustang Country

    Dan

1973Aged 68

  • Poster for The Great American Cowboy

    Narrator

1970Aged 65

  • Poster for Sioux Nation

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Cry Blood Apache

    Pitcalin as an Older Man

1966Aged 61

  • Poster for The Young Rounders

    (Unknown)

1962Aged 57

  • Poster for Ride the High Country

    Steve Judd

1960Aged 55

  • Poster for The Crowning Experience

    Prologue Narrator

1959Aged 54

  • Poster for The Gunfight at Dodge City

    Bat Masterson

1958Aged 53

  • Poster for Cattle Empire

    John Cord

  • Poster for Fort Massacre

    Vinson

1957Aged 52

  • Poster for The Oklahoman

    John

  • Poster for Trooper Hook

    Sgt. Clovis Hook

  • Poster for Gunsight Ridge

    Mike Ryan

  • Poster for The Tall Stranger

    Ned Bannon

1956Aged 51

  • Poster for The First Texan

    Sam Houston

1955Aged 50

  • Poster for Stranger on Horseback

    Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne

  • Poster for Wichita

    Wyatt Earp

1954Aged 49

  • Poster for Border River

    Clete Mattson

  • Poster for Black Horse Canyon

    Del Rockwell

1953Aged 48

  • Poster for Rough Shoot

    Lt. Col. Robert Taine

  • Poster for The Lone Hand

    Zachary Hallock

1952Aged 47

  • Poster for The San Francisco Story

    Rick Nelson

1951Aged 46

  • Poster for Hollywood Story

    Joel McCrea

  • Poster for Cattle Drive

    Dan Mathews

1950Aged 45

  • Poster for The Outriders

    Will Owen

  • Poster for Stars in My Crown

    Josiah Doziah Gray

  • Poster for Saddle Tramp

    Chuck Conner

  • Poster for Frenchie

    Sheriff Tom Banning

1949Aged 44

  • Poster for South of St. Louis

    Kip Davis

  • Poster for Colorado Territory

    Wes McQueen

1948Aged 43

  • Poster for Four Faces West

    Ross McEwen

1947Aged 42

  • Poster for Ramrod

    Dave Nash

1946Aged 41

  • Poster for The Virginian

    The Virginian

1945Aged 40

  • Poster for The Unseen

    David Fielding

1944Aged 39

  • Poster for Buffalo Bill

    William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

  • Poster for The Great Moment

    William Thomas Green Morton

1943Aged 38

  • Poster for Stars on Horseback

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The More the Merrier

    Joe Carter

1942Aged 37

  • Poster for The Palm Beach Story

    Tom Jeffers

1941Aged 36

  • Poster for Reaching for the Sun

    Russ Eliot

  • Poster for The Great Man's Lady

    Mr. Sempler

  • Poster for Sullivan's Travels

    John Sullivan

1940Aged 35

  • Poster for He Married His Wife

    T.H. Randall

  • Poster for Primrose Path

    Ed Wallace

  • Poster for Foreign Correspondent

    John Jones

  • Poster for Breakdowns of 1940

    Self

1939Aged 34

  • Poster for Union Pacific

    Jeff Butler

  • Poster for They Shall Have Music

    Peter McCarthy

  • Poster for Espionage Agent

    Barry Corvall

1938Aged 33

  • Poster for Three Blind Mice

    Van Dam Smith

  • Poster for Youth Takes a Fling

    Joe Meadows

1937Aged 32

  • Poster for Internes Can't Take Money

    Jimmie Kildare

  • Poster for Woman Chases Man

    Kenneth Nolan

  • Poster for Dead End

    Dave

  • Poster for Wells Fargo

    Ramsay MacKay

1936Aged 31

  • Poster for These Three

    Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin

  • Poster for Two in a Crowd

    Larry Stevens

  • Poster for Adventure in Manhattan

    George Melville

  • Poster for Come and Get It

    Richard Glasgow

  • Poster for Banjo on My Knee

    Ernie Holley

1935Aged 30

  • Poster for Private Worlds

    Dr. Alex MacGregor

  • Poster for Our Little Girl

    Donald Middleton

  • Poster for Woman Wanted

    Tony

  • Poster for Barbary Coast

    Jim Carmichael

  • Poster for Splendor

    Brighton Lorrimore

1934Aged 29

  • Poster for Gambling Lady

    Garry Madison

  • Poster for Half a Sinner

    John Adams

  • Poster for The Richest Girl in the World

    Anthony Travers

1933Aged 28

  • Poster for Scarlet River

    Himself (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Silver Cord

    David Phelps

  • Poster for Bed of Roses

    Dan

  • Poster for One Man's Journey

    Jimmy Watt

  • Poster for Chance at Heaven

    Blacky Gorman

1932Aged 27

  • Poster for Business and Pleasure

    Lawrence Ogle

  • Poster for The Lost Squadron

    Red

  • Poster for Bird of Paradise

    Johnny Baker

  • Poster for The Most Dangerous Game

    Robert Rainsford

  • Poster for The Sport Parade

    Sandy Brown

  • Poster for Rockabye

    Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell

1931Aged 26

  • Poster for Once a Sinner

    Tommy Mason

  • Poster for Kept Husbands

    Richard 'Dick' Brunton

  • Poster for Born to Love

    Barry Craig

  • Poster for The Common Law

    John 'Jack' Neville

  • Poster for Girls About Town

    Jim Baker

1930Aged 25

  • Poster for Framed

    Waiter (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Silver Horde

    Boyd Emerson

  • Poster for Lightnin'

    John Marvin

1929Aged 24

  • Poster for The Jazz Age

    Todd Sayles

  • Poster for The Single Standard

    Party Guest (uncredited)

  • Poster for So This Is College

    Bruce Nolan (uncredited)

  • Poster for Dynamite

    Marco

1928Aged 23

  • Poster for Dead Man's Curve

    Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Divine Lady

    Extra (uncredited)

1927Aged 22

  • Poster for The Fair Co-Ed

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Enemy

    Extra (uncredited)

1926Aged 21

  • Poster for Torrent

    Stunts

1924Aged 19

1923Aged 18

  • Poster for Penrod and Sam

    Stunts