Biography: life and films
Joel McCrea was an American actor. He was born in South Pasadena, California, USA on 5th November 1905 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 20th October 1990, aged 84.His best films as an actor include Henry King's comedy Lightnin' (1930), Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels (1941), The Palm Beach Story (1942) and John C. Champion's Mustang Country (1976).
Joel McCrea appeared in 96 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: William A. Wellman (3 films), William A. Seiter (3), Preston Sturges (3), John S. Robertson (3), Jacques Tourneur (3), Gregory La Cava (3), George Sherman (3), Archie Mayo (3), William Wyler (2), Sam Wood (2), Robert Parrish (2), Paul L. Stein (2), Lloyd Bacon (2), Kurt Neumann (2), Joseph M. Newman (2), John Cromwell (2), Howard Hawks (2), George Cukor (2), George Archainbaud (2), Frank Lloyd (2), Francis D. Lyon (2), Charles Marquis Warren (2), Cecil B. DeMille (2) and Alfred E. Green (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (37 films), Western (35), romance (16), comedy (16), comedy-romance (10), Thriller (6), comedy-drama (5), Biography (4), War (3), history (2), crime-thriller (2) and Documentary (2).
Our average rating for Joel McCrea over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor
The Enemy (1927) [a]
The Fair Co-Ed (1927) [a]
Dead Man's Curve (1928) [a]
Freedom of the Press (1928) [a]
The Five O'Clock Girl (1928) [a]
Dynamite (1929) [a]
So This Is College (1929) [a]
The Divine Lady (1929) [a]
The Jazz Age (1929) [a]
The Single Standard (1929) [a]
Lightnin' (1930) [a]
The Silver Horde (1930) [a]
Born to Love (1931) [a]
Girls About Town (1931) [a]
Kept Husbands (1931) [a]
Once a Sinner (1931) [a]
The Common Law (1931) [a]
Bird of Paradise (1932) [a]
Business and Pleasure (1932) [a]
Rockabye (1932) [a]
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) [a]
The Sport Parade (1932) [a]
Bed of Roses (1933) [a]
Chance at Heaven (1933) [a]
One Man's Journey (1933) [a]
Scarlet River (1933) [a]
The Silver Cord (1933) [a]
Gambling Lady (1934) [a]
Half a Sinner (1934) [a]
The Richest Girl in the World (1934) [a]
Our Little Girl (1935) [a]
Private Worlds (1935) [a]
Splendor (1935) [a]
Woman Wanted (1935) [a]
Adventure in Manhattan (1936) [a]
Banjo on My Knee (1936) [a]
Come and Get It (1936) [a]
These Three (1936) [a]
Two in a Crowd (1936) [a]
Dead End (1937) [a]
Internes Can't Take Money (1937) [a]
Wells Fargo (1937) [a]
Woman Chases Man (1937) [a]
Three Blind Mice (1938) [a]
Youth Takes a Fling (1938) [a]
Espionage Agent (1939) [a]
They Shall Have Music (1939) [a]
Union Pacific (1939) [a]
Foreign Correspondent (1940) [a]
He Married His Wife (1940) [a]
Reaching for the Sun (1941) [a]
The Great Man's Lady (1942) [a]
The Palm Beach Story (1942) [a]
The More the Merrier (1943) [a]
Buffalo Bill (1944) [a]
The Unseen (1945) [a]
The Virginian (1946) [a]
Ramrod (1947) [a]
Four Faces West (1948) [a]
Colorado Territory (1949) [a]
South of St. Louis (1949) [a]
Frenchie (1950) [a]
Saddle Tramp (1950) [a]
Stars in My Crown (1950) [a]
The Outriders (1950) [a]
Cattle Drive (1951) [a]
Hollywood Story (1951) [a]
The San Francisco Story (1952) [a]
Rough Shoot (1953) [a]
The Lone Hand (1953) [a]
Black Horse Canyon (1954) [a]
Border River (1954) [a]
Stranger on Horseback (1955) [a]
Wichita (1955) [a]
The First Texan (1956) [a]
Gunsight Ridge (1957) [a]
The Oklahoman (1957) [a]
The Tall Stranger (1957) [a]
Trooper Hook (1957) [a]
Cattle Empire (1958) [a]
Fort Massacre (1958) [a]
The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959) [a]
The Crowning Experience (1960) [a]
Ride the High Country (1962) [a]
The Young Rounders (1966) [a]
Cry Blood, Apache (1970) [a]
The Great American Cowboy (1973) [a]
Mustang Country (1976) [a]
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984) [a]
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