Joel McCrea
Born November 05, 1905 (Age: 120)
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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.
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
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 98
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 91
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
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as Self
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Age: 79
The Great American Cowboy
1973
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as Narrator
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Age: 68
Ride the High Country
1962
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as Steve Judd
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Age: 56
The Crowning Experience
1960
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as Prologue Narrator
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Age: 54
The Gunfight at Dodge City
1959
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as Bat Masterson
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Age: 53
Fort Massacre
1958
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as Vinson
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Age: 52
Cattle Empire
1958
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as John Cord
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Age: 52
The First Texan
1956
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as Sam Houston
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Age: 50
Wichita
1955
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as Wyatt Earp
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Age: 49
Stranger on Horseback
1955
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as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
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Age: 49
Black Horse Canyon
1954
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as Del Rockwell
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Age: 48
Border River
1954
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as Clete Mattson
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Age: 48
The Lone Hand
1953
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as Zachary Hallock
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Age: 47
Rough Shoot
1953
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as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
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Age: 47
Frenchie
1950
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as Sheriff Tom Banning
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Age: 45
Saddle Tramp
1950
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as Chuck Conner
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Age: 44
Stars in My Crown
1950
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as Josiah Doziah Gray
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Age: 44
The Outriders
1950
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as Will Owen
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Age: 44
The Unseen
1945
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as David Fielding
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Age: 39
The Palm Beach Story
1942
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as Tom Jeffers
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Age: 36
Sullivan's Travels
1941
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as John Sullivan
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Age: 36
The Great Man's Lady
1941
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as Mr. Sempler
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Age: 35
Reaching for the Sun
1941
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as Russ Eliot
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Age: 35
Rockabye
1932
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as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
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Age: 27
The Sport Parade
1932
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as Sandy Brown
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Age: 27
The Most Dangerous Game
1932
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as Robert Rainsford
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Age: 26
Bird of Paradise
1932
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as Johnny Baker
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Age: 26
The Lost Squadron
1932
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as Red
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Age: 26
Business and Pleasure
1932
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as Lawrence Ogle
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Age: 26
Girls About Town
1931
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as Jim Baker
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Age: 26
The Common Law
1931
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as John 'Jack' Neville
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Age: 25
Born to Love
1931
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as Barry Craig
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Age: 25
Kept Husbands
1931
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as Richard 'Dick' Brunton
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Age: 25
Once a Sinner
1931
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as Tommy Mason
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Age: 25
Lightnin'
1930
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as John Marvin
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Age: 25
The Silver Horde
1930
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as Boyd Emerson
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Age: 24
Framed
1930
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as Waiter (uncredited)
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Age: 24