Joel McCrea
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' 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...
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Mustang Country
The Great American Cowboy
The Young Rounders
Ride the High Country
The Crowning Experience
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Fort Massacre
Cattle Empire
The Tall Stranger
Gunsight Ridge
Trooper Hook
The Oklahoman
The First Texan
Wichita
Stranger on Horseback
Border River
Black Horse Canyon
Rough Shoot
The Lone Hand
The San Francisco Story
Cattle Drive
Frenchie
Saddle Tramp
Stars in My Crown
The Outriders
Colorado Territory
South of St. Louis
Four Faces West
Ramrod
The Virginian
The Unseen
The Great Moment
Buffalo Bill
The More the Merrier
Stars on Horseback
The Palm Beach Story
Sullivan's Travels
The Great Man's Lady
Reaching for the Sun
Breakdowns of 1940
Foreign Correspondent
Primrose Path
He Married His Wife
Union Pacific
They Shall Have Music
Espionage Agent
Youth Takes a Fling
Three Blind Mice
Woman Chases Man
Dead End
Internes Can't Take Money
Wells Fargo
Banjo on My Knee
Two in a Crowd
Adventure in Manhattan
Come and Get It
These Three
Splendor
Woman Wanted
Private Worlds
Barbary Coast
Our Little Girl
The Richest Girl in the World
Half a Sinner
Gambling Lady
Chance at Heaven
One Man's Journey
The Silver Cord
Bed of Roses
Rockabye
The Sport Parade
The Most Dangerous Game
Business and Pleasure
The Lost Squadron
Bird of Paradise
Girls About Town
The Common Law
Born to Love
Kept Husbands
Once a Sinner
Lightnin'
The Silver Horde
Framed
Dynamite
The Jazz Age
Dead Man's Curve
The Five O'Clock Girl
The Fair Co-Ed