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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Known For

The Young Rounders 1966 ★ 7.0
Ride the High Country 1962 ★ 7.0
Wichita Town 1959 ★ 4.9
The Gunfight at Dodge City 1959 ★ 5.7
Fort Massacre 1958 ★ 6.2
The Oklahoman 1957 ★ 5.8
The Tall Stranger 1957 ★ 6.5
Wichita 1955 ★ 6.3
Cattle Drive 1951 ★ 6.5
The Outriders 1950 ★ 7.3
Frenchie 1950 ★ 6.0
Colorado Territory 1949 ★ 6.9
Four Faces West 1948 ★ 5.7
Ramrod 1947 ★ 6.5
The Virginian 1946 ★ 6.2
The More the Merrier 1943 ★ 7.0
The Palm Beach Story 1942 ★ 7.0
Sullivan's Travels 1941 ★ 7.4
Foreign Correspondent 1940 ★ 7.0
Union Pacific 1939 ★ 6.7
Dead End 1937 ★ 7.1
Come and Get It 1936 ★ 6.8
Barbary Coast 1935 ★ 6.4
The Most Dangerous Game 1932 ★ 6.9