Joel McCrea
Birthday: 1905-11-05 | Place of Birth: South Pasadena, California, USAJoel 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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Acting
Role
as Dan
as Pitcalin as an Older Man
as Steve Judd
as Prologue Narrator
as Bat Masterson
as Marshal Mike Dunbar
as John Cord
as Vinson
as John
as Mike Ryan
as Ned Bannon
as Sgt. Clovis Hook
as Sam Houston
as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
as Wyatt Earp
as Clete Mattson
as Del Rockwell
as Lt. Col. Robert Taine
as Zachary Hallock
as Rick Nelson
as Dan Mathews
as Chuck Conner
as Josiah Doziah Gray
as Will Owen
as Kip Davis
as Wes McQueen
as Ross McEwen
