Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor.
Joel McCrea | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | Joel Albert McCrea November 5, 1905 |
| Died | October 20, 1990 |
| Years active | 1927–1976 |
His career began in the late 1920s in movies such as The Fair Co-Ed (1927) and The Five O'Clock Girl (1928).
He had a starring role in the Western movie Wells Fargo (1937) and Union Pacific (1939). Those movies turned McCrea, into a prominent actor in westerns, from that moment he would never stop starring in Westerns. In another of his classics, Buffalo Bill (1944), he plays the legendary buffalo hunter. His other successful role was of "The Virginian" in The Virginian (1946). He was directed by renowned director Raoul Walsh in Colorado Territory (1949), he plays an outlaw who plans to rob the railroad.
In the 1950's, he starred in some interesting western movie as The San Francisco Story (1952), Border River (1954), and the Classic Wichita (1955), by Jacques Tourneur, The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959), as Bat Masterson.
One of his best movies, was with the actor Randolph Scott in Ride the High Country (1962) by Sam Peckinpah. His last movies were The Young Rounders (1966) - Sioux Nation (1970) - Cry Blood, Apache (1970) and Mustang Country (1976).
Television
In 1960 Joel McCrea, was hired by NBC Television, for the role of Marshal Mike Dunbar, in the series Wichita Town for 26 episodes. Marshal Mike Dunbar, is tough, imposing law and order in the wild town of Wichita. Joel McCrea was one of the few stars in Hollywood, starring in a television series.
Joel McCrea Media
McCrea with Fay Wray in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
McCrea in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940)
McCrea with Veronica Lake in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Other websites
- Joel McCrea on IMDb
- Joel McCrea at Allmovie
- Joel McCrea at the TCM Movie Database
- Joel McCrea at Find a Grave
- Photographs and literature
- Joel McCrea Wildlife Preserve Archived 2010-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
- McCrea Ranch Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine