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Joel McCrea

1905 - 1990

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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' 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joel McCrea has received more than 2,679,603 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Joel McCrea is the 3,063rd most popular actor (down from 2,914th in 2019), the 4,793rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,704th in 2019) and the 1,444th most popular American Actor.

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  • 49.78

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Joel McCrea ranks 3,063 out of 9,996Before him are Serena Grandi, Alexander Granach, Eduardo Fajardo, Matthew Lillard, Gösta Ekman, and Anne Revere. After him are Grant Show, Barry Morse, Ružica Sokić, Gordon Liu, Debbie Allen, and Tapio Rautavaara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Joel McCrea ranks 182Before him are Antonio Berni, Raúl Leoni, Clarence Zener, Seni Pramoj, Mantovani, and Zoilo Saldombide. After him are Ernst Baier, Juan O'Gorman, Fumiko Enchi, Markos Vamvakaris, Nise da Silveira, and Conduelo Píriz. Among people deceased in 1990, Joel McCrea ranks 150Before him are Peter Wessel Zapffe, Marie-Dominique Chenu, Cemal Süreya, Alexander Men, Anne Revere, and René David. After him are Vladimir Stoychev, Erkki Aaltonen, Luis Trenker, Xu Xiangqian, Edwin O. Reischauer, and Luigi Beccali.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel McCrea ranks 4,793 out of 18,182Before him are Saul Zaentz (1921), Frank James (1843), Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Matthew Lillard (1970), Sean S. Cunningham (1941), and Anne Revere (1903). After him are Grant Show (1962), Gilbert Stuart (1755), Henry Cowell (1897), Connie Willis (1945), Johnny Thunders (1952), and Aldo Leopold (1887).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Joel McCrea ranks 1,444Before him are Joe Dallesandro (1948), Fay Bainter (1893), Robert Wisdom (1953), Norma Talmadge (1894), Matthew Lillard (1970), and Anne Revere (1903). After him are Grant Show (1962), Debbie Allen (1950), Eriq La Salle (1962), Cuba Gooding Jr. (1968), Bobby Driscoll (1937), and Ted Cassidy (1932).

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