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Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

Acting Born Nov 05, 1905 -- Died 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 Ca...

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Sullivan's Travels
7.4
movie
Sullivan's Travels
as John Sullivan
1941
Foreign Correspondent
7.0
movie
Foreign Correspondent
as John Jones
1940
The Most Dangerous Game
6.9
movie
The Most Dangerous Game
as Robert Rainsford
1932
Ride the High Country
7.1
movie
Ride the High Country
as Steve Judd
1962
The Palm Beach Story
7.0
movie
The Palm Beach Story
as Tom Jeffers
1942
Dead End
7.0
movie
Dead End
as Dave
1937
The More the Merrier
6.9
movie
The More the Merrier
as Joe Carter
1943
Union Pacific
6.6
movie
Union Pacific
as Jeff Butler
1939
Colorado Territory
6.9
movie
Colorado Territory
as Wes McQueen
1949
Wichita
6.3
movie
Wichita
as Wyatt Earp
1955
Ramrod
6.5
movie
Ramrod
as Dave Nash
1947
Stars in My Crown
6.9
movie
Stars in My Crown
as Josiah Doziah Gray
1950