Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

Birthday: 1905-11-05

Place of Birth: South Pasadena, California, USA

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.

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The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious is...

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The Palm Beach Story
The Palm Beach Story

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, de...

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Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i...

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Dead End
Dead End

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, droppin...

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Colorado Territory
Colorado Territory

After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last...

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The Great Moment
The Great Moment

The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia...

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Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country

An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But wha...

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Ramrod
Ramrod

A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she dete...

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Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West s...

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Union Pacific
Union Pacific

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro...

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The Unseen
The Unseen

David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspi...

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Sullivan's Travels
Sullivan's Travels

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterp...

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Four Faces West
Four Faces West

Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks abo...

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Hollywood Story
Hollywood Story

An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the uns...

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Primrose Path
Primrose Path

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, he...

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The More the Merrier
The More the Merrier

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C....

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These Three
These Three

Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local do...

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Internes Can't Take Money
Internes Can't Take Money

Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't ...

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Bird of Paradise
Bird of Paradise

When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in...

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Barbary Coast
Barbary Coast

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel o...

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Come and Get It
Come and Get It

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years l...

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Fort Massacre
Fort Massacre

New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been rel...

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The Gunfight at Dodge City
The Gunfight at Dodge City

Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Laut...

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The Great Man's Lady
The Great Man's Lady

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who...

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Adventure in Manhattan
Adventure in Manhattan

The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (w...

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The Lost Squadron
The Lost Squadron

When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollyw...

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Girls About Town
Girls About Town

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhatt...

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The Silver Cord
The Silver Cord

A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately s...

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The Virginian
The Virginian

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve a...

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Woman Chases Man
Woman Chases Man

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing de...

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Kept Husbands
Kept Husbands

A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in ...

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Private Worlds
Private Worlds

At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor ...

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Born to Love
Born to Love

A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed ...

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Rockabye
Rockabye

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play....

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The Oklahoman
The Oklahoman

After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Well...

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Espionage Agent
Espionage Agent

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo...

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Rough Shoot
Rough Shoot

An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful Engli...

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Trooper Hook
Trooper Hook

When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to...

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Stranger on Horseback
Stranger on Horseback

A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afou...

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The Sport Parade
The Sport Parade

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation....

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Splendor
Splendor

When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointm...

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Stars in My Crown
Stars in My Crown

An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western...

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The Richest Girl in the World
The Richest Girl in the World

Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and...

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Chance at Heaven
Chance at Heaven

A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite....

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Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil...

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Border River
Border River

A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight...

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Bed of Roses
Bed of Roses

A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin....

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Cattle Drive
Cattle Drive

The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowher...

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Gambling Lady
Gambling Lady

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's...

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The Great American Cowboy
The Great American Cowboy

The battle between two rodeo stars for the world championship: veteran Larry Mahan and newcomer Phil...

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The Common Law
The Common Law

When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent pas...

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The Tall Stranger
The Tall Stranger

A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in ...

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Wichita
Wichita

Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kans...

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Saddle Tramp
Saddle Tramp

Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When ...

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They Shall Have Music
They Shall Have Music

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step f...

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The First Texan
The First Texan

After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his...

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The Outriders
The Outriders

Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They ...

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The Silver Horde
The Silver Horde

A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll....

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Banjo on My Knee
Banjo on My Knee

A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New O...

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South of St. Louis
South of St. Louis

With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Need...

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The Fair Co-Ed
The Fair Co-Ed

Marion go off to college where she joins the basketball team to be near the coach, Bob. She instantl...

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Gunsight Ridge
Gunsight Ridge

An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of st...

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Dynamite
Dynamite

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is ter...

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The Lone Hand
The Lone Hand

Zachary Hallock and his son Joshua are farmers who live in a frontier town that suffers the assaults...

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So This Is College
So This Is College

Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff....

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The San Francisco Story
The San Francisco Story

After five years of being away, Rick Nelson returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corrupti...

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One Man's Journey
One Man's Journey

Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have...

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He Married His Wife
He Married His Wife

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony ...

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Frenchie
Frenchie

Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the me...

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Mustang Country
Mustang Country

A rancher and former rodeo star comes across a runaway boy while he is hunting a wild stallion....

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Cattle Empire
Cattle Empire

After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree,...

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Woman Wanted
Woman Wanted

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into anoth...

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Business and Pleasure
Business and Pleasure

On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fat...

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Three Blind Mice
Three Blind Mice

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husb...

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Dead Man's Curve
Dead Man's Curve

A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our...

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Reaching for the Sun
Reaching for the Sun

Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by work...

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Scarlet River
Scarlet River

Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake'...

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Our Little Girl
Our Little Girl

Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend m...

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Two in a Crowd
Two in a Crowd

When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that indivi...

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The Divine Lady
The Divine Lady

Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire....

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Youth Takes a Fling
Youth Takes a Fling

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to Ne...

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Once a Sinner
Once a Sinner

As Diana Barry is preparing to leave New York to marry inventor Tommy Mason she is offered financial...

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The Single Standard
The Single Standard

A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist....

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Black Horse Canyon
Black Horse Canyon

The story of a wild black stallion and the cowboys who set out to capture him....

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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...

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Lightnin'
Lightnin'

Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing w...

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The Young Rounders
The Young Rounders

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Breakdowns of 1940
Breakdowns of 1940

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940....

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Sioux Nation
Sioux Nation

Joel McCrea stars in this unreleased Western from 1970....

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Cry Blood Apache
Cry Blood Apache

Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback s...

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The Crowning Experience
The Crowning Experience

Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies...

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The Enemy
The Enemy

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. W...

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Half a Sinner
Half a Sinner

A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher....

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

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the ...

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Stars on Horseback
Stars on Horseback

A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCre...

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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son....

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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...

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Night of 100 Stars
Night of 100 Stars

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...

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Framed
Framed

Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years l...

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The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age

When Steve Maxwell and flapper Sue Randall wreck her father's automobile during a drunken escapade, ...

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