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 ...
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The Most Dangerous Game
As Robert Rainsford
The Palm Beach Story
As Tom Jeffers
Foreign Correspondent
As John Jones
Dead End
As Dave
Colorado Territory
As Wes McQueen
The Great Moment
As William Thomas Green Morton
Ride the High Country
As Steve Judd
Ramrod
As Dave Nash
Buffalo Bill
As William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Union Pacific
As Jeff Butler
The Unseen
As David Fielding
Sullivan's Travels
As John Sullivan
Four Faces West
As Ross McEwen
Hollywood Story
As Joel McCrea
Primrose Path
As Ed Wallace
The More the Merrier
As Joe Carter
These Three
As Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
Internes Can't Take Money
As Jimmie Kildare
Bird of Paradise
As Johnny Baker
Barbary Coast
As Jim Carmichael
Come and Get It
As Richard Glasgow
Fort Massacre
As Vinson
The Gunfight at Dodge City
As Bat Masterson
The Great Man's Lady
As Mr. Sempler
Adventure in Manhattan
As George Melville
The Lost Squadron
As Red
Girls About Town
As Jim Baker
The Silver Cord
As David Phelps
The Virginian
As The Virginian
Woman Chases Man
As Kenneth Nolan
Kept Husbands
As Richard Brunton
Private Worlds
As Dr. Alex MacGregor
Born to Love
As Barry Craig
Rockabye
As Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell
The Oklahoman
As John
Espionage Agent
As Barry Corvall
Rough Shoot
As Lt. Col. Robert Taine
Trooper Hook
As Sgt. Clovis Hook
Stranger on Horseback
As Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
Stars in My Crown
As Josiah Doziah Gray
The Sport Parade
As Sandy Brown
Splendor
As Brighton Lorrimore
The Richest Girl in the World
As Anthony Travers
Chance at Heaven
As Blacky Gorman
Border River
As Clete Mattson
Wells Fargo
As Ramsay MacKay
Bed of Roses
As Dan
Cattle Drive
As Dan Mathews
Gambling Lady
As Garry Madison
The Great American Cowboy
As Narrator
The Common Law
As John 'Jack' Neville
The Tall Stranger
As Ned Bannon
Wichita
As Wyatt Earp
Saddle Tramp
As Chuck Conner
They Shall Have Music
As Peter McCarthy
The First Texan
As Sam Houston
The Outriders
As Will Owen
The Silver Horde
As Boyd Emerson
Banjo on My Knee
As Ernie Holley
South of St. Louis
As Kip Davis
The Fair Co-Ed
Gunsight Ridge
As Mike Ryan
Dynamite
As Marco
The Lone Hand
As Zachary Hallock
The San Francisco Story
As Rick Nelson
So This Is College
As Bruce Nolan (uncredited)
One Man's Journey
As Jimmy Watt
He Married His Wife
As T.H. Randall
Frenchie
As Sheriff Tom Banning
Mustang Country
As Dan
Cattle Empire
As John Cord
Woman Wanted
As Tony
Business and Pleasure
As Lawrence Ogle
Three Blind Mice
As Van Dam Smith
Dead Man's Curve
As Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
As 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Reaching for the Sun
As Russ Eliot
Scarlet River
As Himself (uncredited)
Our Little Girl
As Donald Middleton
Two in a Crowd
As Larry Stevens
The Divine Lady
As Extra (uncredited)
Youth Takes a Fling
As Joe Meadows
Once a Sinner
As Tommy Mason
The Single Standard
As Party Guest (uncredited)
Black Horse Canyon
As Del Rockwell
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
As Self (archive footage)
Lightnin'
As John Marvin
The Young Rounders
Breakdowns of 1940
As Self
Cry Blood Apache
As Pitcalin as an Older Man
The Crowning Experience
As Prologue Narrator
Sioux Nation
The Enemy
As Extra (uncredited)
Half a Sinner
As John Adams
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
As John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
As Self
Stars on Horseback
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
As Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars
As Self
Wichita Town
As Marshal Mike Dunbar
The Ed Sullivan Show
As Self