Joel McCrea
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Chance at Heaven
1933
as Blacky Gorman
Union Pacific
1939
as Jeff Butler
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
Sullivan's Travels
1941
as John Sullivan
Foreign Correspondent
1940
as John Jones
Gambling Lady
1934
as Garry Madison
Wichita
1955
as Wyatt Earp
Mustang Country
1976
as Dan
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Ramrod
1947
as Dave Nash
Dead End
1937
as Dave
Wells Fargo
1937
as Ramsay MacKay
The Palm Beach Story
1942
as Tom Jeffers
The Oklahoman
1957
as John
Frenchie
1950
as Sheriff Tom Banning
Ride the High Country
1962
as Steve Judd
So This Is College
1929
as Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
The Most Dangerous Game
1932
as Robert Rainsford
Two in a Crowd
1936
as Larry Stevens
Barbary Coast
1935
as Jim Carmichael