Joel McCrea profile
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Joel McCrea

5th November 1905 South Pasadena, California, USA Acting

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.

100 Movies 3 TV Shows 103 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Frenchie 25th December 1950 as Sheriff Tom Banning
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Buffalo Bill 2nd April 1944 as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
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Splendor 22nd November 1935 as Brighton Lorrimore
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Rockabye 25th November 1932 as Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
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Framed 16th March 1930 as Waiter (uncredited)
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The Enemy 8th December 1927 as Extra (uncredited)