Place of Birth:
South Pasadena, California, USA
Date of Birth:
11/5/1905
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.
The Most Dangerous Game
The Palm Beach Story
Foreign Correspondent
Dead End
Colorado Territory
The Great Moment
Ride the High Country
Ramrod
Buffalo Bill
Union Pacific
The Unseen
Sullivan's Travels
Four Faces West
Hollywood Story
Primrose Path
The More the Merrier
These Three
Internes Can't Take Money
Bird of Paradise
Barbary Coast
Come and Get It
Fort Massacre
The Gunfight at Dodge City
The Great Man's Lady
Adventure in Manhattan
The Lost Squadron
Girls About Town
The Silver Cord
The Virginian
Woman Chases Man
Kept Husbands
Private Worlds
Born to Love
Rockabye
The Oklahoman
Espionage Agent
Rough Shoot
Trooper Hook
Stranger on Horseback
Splendor
The Sport Parade
Stars in My Crown
The Richest Girl in the World
Chance at Heaven
Border River
Wells Fargo
Bed of Roses
Cattle Drive
Gambling Lady
The Common Law
The Great American Cowboy
The Tall Stranger
Wichita
Saddle Tramp
They Shall Have Music
The First Texan
The Outriders
The Silver Horde
Banjo on My Knee
South of St. Louis
The Fair Co-Ed
Gunsight Ridge
Dynamite
The Lone Hand
So This Is College
The San Francisco Story
One Man's Journey
He Married His Wife
Frenchie
Mustang Country
Cattle Empire
Woman Wanted
Business and Pleasure
Three Blind Mice
Dead Man's Curve
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Reaching for the Sun
Scarlet River
Our Little Girl
Two in a Crowd
The Divine Lady
Youth Takes a Fling
Once a Sinner
The Single Standard
Black Horse Canyon
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Lightnin'
The Young Rounders
Breakdowns of 1940
Sioux Nation
The Crowning Experience
Cry Blood Apache
The Enemy
Half a Sinner
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Stars on Horseback
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Night of 100 Stars