Joel McCrea
Date of birth: 1905-11-05
Place of birth: South Pasadena, California, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Joel Albert McCrea, Джоэл Маккри
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.
Movie Credits
The Most Dangerous Game
1932-09-16
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious is
The Palm Beach Story
1942-08-28
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, de
Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i
Dead End
1937-08-27
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day
Colorado Territory
1949-06-11
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last
The Great Moment
1944-07-18
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia
Ride the High Country
1962-06-20
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But wha
Ramrod
1947-05-02
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she dete
Buffalo Bill
1944-04-02
Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West s
Union Pacific
1939-05-05
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro
The Unseen
1945-05-12
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspi
Sullivan's Travels
1941-11-30
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterp
Four Faces West
1948-08-03
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks abo
Hollywood Story
1951-06-01
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the uns
Primrose Path
1940-03-22
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, he
The More the Merrier
1943-05-13
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C.
These Three
1936-03-18
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local do
Internes Can't Take Money
1937-04-16
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't
Bird of Paradise
1932-08-12
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in
Barbary Coast
1935-10-13
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel o
Come and Get It
1936-11-06
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years l
Fort Massacre
1958-05-14
New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been rel
The Gunfight at Dodge City
1959-05-01
Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Laut
The Great Man's Lady
1941-10-31
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who
Adventure in Manhattan
1936-10-08
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (w
The Lost Squadron
1932-03-12
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollyw
Girls About Town
1931-11-07
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhatt
The Silver Cord
1933-05-05
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately s
The Virginian
1946-05-05
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve a
Woman Chases Man
1937-05-07
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing de
Kept Husbands
1931-02-22
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in
Private Worlds
1935-04-19
At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor
Born to Love
1931-04-17
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed
Rockabye
1932-11-25
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
The Oklahoman
1957-05-19
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Well
Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo
Rough Shoot
1953-03-30
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful Engli
Trooper Hook
1957-07-12
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to
Stranger on Horseback
1955-03-22
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afou
Splendor
1935-11-22
When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointm
The Sport Parade
1932-11-11
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Stars in My Crown
1950-05-11
An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western
The Richest Girl in the World
1934-09-21
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and
Chance at Heaven
1933-10-27
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
Border River
1954-01-06
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight
Wells Fargo
1937-12-31
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil
Bed of Roses
1933-06-29
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
Cattle Drive
1951-08-01
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowher
Gambling Lady
1934-03-08
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's
The Common Law
1931-07-17
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent pas
The Great American Cowboy
1973-12-01
The battle between two rodeo stars for the world championship: veteran Larry Mahan and newcomer Phil
The Tall Stranger
1957-11-17
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in
Wichita
1955-07-03
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kans
Saddle Tramp
1950-09-21
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When
They Shall Have Music
1939-08-18
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step f
The First Texan
1956-06-29
After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his
The Outriders
1950-03-01
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They
The Silver Horde
1930-10-24
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Banjo on My Knee
1936-12-11
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New O
South of St. Louis
1949-03-06
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Need
The Fair Co-Ed
1927-10-22
Marion go off to college where she joins the basketball team to be near the coach, Bob. She instantl
Gunsight Ridge
1957-09-01
An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of st
Dynamite
1929-12-13
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is ter
The Lone Hand
1953-05-20
Zachary Hallock and his son Joshua are farmers who live in a frontier town that suffers the assaults
So This Is College
1929-11-08
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
The San Francisco Story
1952-05-11
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corrupti
One Man's Journey
1933-08-31
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have
He Married His Wife
1940-01-19
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony
Frenchie
1950-12-25
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the me
Mustang Country
1976-03-29
A rancher and former rodeo star comes across a runaway boy while he is hunting a wild stallion.
Cattle Empire
1958-04-01
After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree,
Woman Wanted
1935-08-02
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into anoth
Business and Pleasure
1932-02-24
On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fat
Three Blind Mice
1938-06-18
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husb
Dead Man's Curve
1928-01-15
A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our
Reaching for the Sun
1941-05-01
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by work
Scarlet River
1933-03-10
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake'
Our Little Girl
1935-01-01
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend m
Two in a Crowd
1936-10-03
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that indivi
The Divine Lady
1928-12-26
Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
Youth Takes a Fling
1938-09-22
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to Ne
Once a Sinner
1931-01-25
As Diana Barry is preparing to leave New York to marry inventor Tommy Mason she is offered financial
The Single Standard
1929-07-27
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
Black Horse Canyon
1954-06-01
The story of a wild black stallion and the cowboys who set out to capture him.
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997-05-12
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17
Lightnin'
1930-11-28
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing w
The Young Rounders
1966-01-01
Breakdowns of 1940
1940-12-31
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.
Sioux Nation
1970-01-01
Joel McCrea stars in this unreleased Western from 1970.
The Crowning Experience
1960-10-22
Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies
Cry Blood Apache
1970-09-01
Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback s
The Enemy
1927-12-08
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. W
Half a Sinner
1934-06-01
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008-03-03
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985-03-03
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
Stars on Horseback
1943-04-23
A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCre
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004-07-25
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist
Night of 100 Stars
1982-03-08
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place
Framed
1930-03-16
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years l
The Jazz Age
1929-01-06
When Steve Maxwell and flapper Sue Randall wreck her father's automobile during a drunken escapade,