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Joel McCrea
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, rom…
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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. 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' 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Movie John Neville Jr. (archive footage)
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2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Movie Self
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1982
Night of 100 Stars
Movie Self
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1976
Mustang Country
Movie Dan
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1973
The Great American Cowboy
Movie Narrator
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1970
Cry Blood Apache
Movie Pitcalin as an Older Man
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1970
Sioux Nation
Movie
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1966
The Young Rounders
Movie
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1962
The Merv Griffin Show
TV show Self
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1962
Ride the High Country
Movie Steve Judd
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1960
The Crowning Experience
Movie Prologue Narrator
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1959
Wichita Town
TV show Marshal Mike Dunbar
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1959
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Movie Bat Masterson
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1958
Fort Massacre
Movie Vinson
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1958
Cattle Empire
Movie John Cord
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1957
The Tall Stranger
Movie Ned Bannon
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1957
Gunsight Ridge
Movie Mike Ryan
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1957
Trooper Hook
Movie Sgt. Clovis Hook
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1957
The Oklahoman
Movie John
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1956
The First Texan
Movie Sam Houston
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1955
Wichita
Movie Wyatt Earp
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1955
Stranger on Horseback
Movie Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
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1954
Black Horse Canyon
Movie Del Rockwell
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1954
Border River
Movie Clete Mattson
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1953
The Lone Hand
Movie Zachary Hallock
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1953
Rough Shoot
Movie Lt. Col. Robert Taine
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1952
The San Francisco Story
Movie Rick Nelson
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1951
Cattle Drive
Movie Dan Mathews
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1951
Hollywood Story
Movie Joel McCrea
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1950
Frenchie
Movie Sheriff Tom Banning
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1950
Saddle Tramp
Movie Chuck Conner
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1950
Stars in My Crown
Movie Josiah Doziah Gray
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1950
The Outriders
Movie Will Owen
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1949
Colorado Territory
Movie Wes McQueen
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1949
South of St. Louis
Movie Kip Davis
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1948
Four Faces West
Movie Ross McEwen
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1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV show Self
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1947
Ramrod
Movie Dave Nash
