Joel McCrea
Actor
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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Filmography
Foreign Correspondent
as John Jones 1940
The Most Dangerous Game
as Robert Rainsford 1932
Ride the High Country
as Steve Judd 1962
The Palm Beach Story
as Tom Jeffers 1942
Dead End
as Dave 1937
The More the Merrier
as Joe Carter 1943
Union Pacific
as Jeff Butler 1939
Colorado Territory
as Wes McQueen 1949
Wichita
as Wyatt Earp 1955
Ramrod
as Dave Nash 1947
Stars in My Crown
as Josiah Doziah Gray 1950
These Three
as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin 1936
Come and Get It
as Richard Glasgow 1936
Buffalo Bill
as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody 1944
Barbary Coast
as Jim Carmichael 1935
Bird of Paradise
as Johnny Baker 1932