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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Complete Filmography & Verdicts
| Year | Movie | Character | Rating | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | John Neville Jr. (archive footage) | FLOP | |
| 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 1997 | Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line | Self (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 1982 | Night of 100 Stars | Self | HIT | |
| 1973 | The Great American Cowboy | Narrator | FLOP | |
| 1970 | Sioux Nation | - | HIT | |
| 1962 | Ride the High Country | Steve Judd | HIT | |
| 1958 | Fort Massacre | Vinson | FLOP | |
| 1958 | Cattle Empire | John Cord | FLOP | |
| 1957 | The Tall Stranger | Ned Bannon | HIT | |
| 1957 | Trooper Hook | Sgt. Clovis Hook | HIT | |
| 1956 | The First Texan | Sam Houston | FLOP | |
| 1955 | Wichita | Wyatt Earp | FLOP | |
| 1954 | Border River | Clete Mattson | FLOP | |
| 1953 | Rough Shoot | Lt. Col. Robert Taine | FLOP | |
| 1951 | Cattle Drive | Dan Mathews | FLOP | |
| 1951 | Hollywood Story | Joel McCrea | HIT | |
| 1950 | Saddle Tramp | Chuck Conner | FLOP | |
| 1950 | Stars in My Crown | Josiah Doziah Gray | HIT | |
| 1950 | The Outriders | Will Owen | HIT | |
| 1949 | Colorado Territory | Wes McQueen | HIT | |
| 1947 | Ramrod | Dave Nash | HIT | |
| 1946 | The Virginian | The Virginian | FLOP | |
| 1943 | The More the Merrier | Joe Carter | HIT | |
| 1942 | The Palm Beach Story | Tom Jeffers | HIT | |
| 1941 | Sullivan's Travels | John Sullivan | HIT | |
| 1941 | The Great Man's Lady | Mr. Sempler | FLOP | |
| 1941 | Reaching for the Sun | Russ Eliot | FLOP | |
| 1940 | Foreign Correspondent | John Jones | HIT | |
| 1940 | Primrose Path | Ed Wallace | HIT | |
| 1939 | They Shall Have Music | Peter McCarthy | FLOP | |
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Jeff Butler | HIT | |
| 1938 | Three Blind Mice | Van Dam Smith | FLOP | |
| 1937 | Dead End | Dave | HIT | |
| 1937 | Internes Can't Take Money | Jimmie Kildare | FLOP | |
| 1936 | Come and Get It | Richard Glasgow | HIT | |
| 1936 | These Three | Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin | HIT | |
| 1935 | Splendor | Brighton Lorrimore | FLOP | |
| 1935 | Barbary Coast | Jim Carmichael | FLOP | |
| 1935 | Woman Wanted | Tony | FLOP | |
| 1935 | Private Worlds | Dr. Alex MacGregor | FLOP | |
| 1934 | Gambling Lady | Garry Madison | FLOP | |
| 1933 | One Man's Journey | Jimmy Watt | HIT | |
| 1933 | Bed of Roses | Dan | FLOP | |
| 1933 | The Silver Cord | David Phelps | HIT | |
| 1932 | Rockabye | Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell | FLOP | |
| 1932 | The Most Dangerous Game | Robert Rainsford | HIT | |
| 1932 | The Lost Squadron | Red | FLOP | |
| 1931 | Girls About Town | Jim Baker | FLOP | |
| 1929 | Dynamite | Marco | FLOP |