Joel McCrea
American actor (1905–1990) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Joel McCrea | |
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 McCrea in Four Faces West (1948) | |
| Born | Joel Albert McCrea (1905-11-05)November 5, 1905 |
| Died | October 20, 1990(1990-10-20) (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Remains scattered into the Pacific Ocean |
| Alma mater | Pomona College |
| Years active | 1927–1976 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3, including Jody McCrea |
He appeared in over one hundred films,[1] 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' six-time Academy Award nominated 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.
He starred in a total of three Best Picture Oscar nominees: Dead End (1937), Foreign Correspondent (1940), and The More the Merrier (1943).
With the exception of the British thriller Rough Shoot (1953) and film noir Hollywood Story (1951), McCrea appeared in Western films exclusively from 1946 until his retirement in 1976.