Joel McCrea

Acting

Nov 5, 1905 – Oct 20, 1990 · South Pasadena, California, USA

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.

Adds the top 10 unseen, by popularity

Sullivan's Travels1941
as ⁨John Sullivan⁩
Foreign Correspondent1940
as ⁨John Jones⁩
The Most Dangerous Game1932
as ⁨Robert Rainsford⁩
Ride the High Country1962
as ⁨Steve Judd⁩
The Palm Beach Story1942
as ⁨Tom Jeffers⁩
Dead End1937
as ⁨Dave⁩
The More the Merrier1943
as ⁨Joe Carter⁩
as ⁨Jeff Butler⁩
as ⁨Wes McQueen⁩
as ⁨Wyatt Earp⁩
as ⁨Dave Nash⁩
as ⁨Josiah Doziah Gray⁩

Adds the top 10 unseen, by popularity

Sullivan's Travels1941
as ⁨John Sullivan⁩
Foreign Correspondent1940
as ⁨John Jones⁩
The Most Dangerous Game1932
as ⁨Robert Rainsford⁩
Ride the High Country1962
as ⁨Steve Judd⁩
The Palm Beach Story1942
as ⁨Tom Jeffers⁩
Dead End1937
as ⁨Dave⁩
The More the Merrier1943
as ⁨Joe Carter⁩
as ⁨Jeff Butler⁩
as ⁨Wes McQueen⁩
as ⁨Wyatt Earp⁩
as ⁨Dave Nash⁩
as ⁨Josiah Doziah Gray⁩