ACTOR

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 Westerns, 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 2,844,419 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Joel McCrea is the 3,238th most popular actor (down from 3,059th in 2019), the 4,883rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,781st in 2019) and the 1,454th most popular American Actor.

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  • 4.53

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Joel McCrea ranks 3,238 out of 13,578. Before him are Jenette Goldstein, Kristen Bell, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Jane Powell, Gianni Russo, and Simon MacCorkindale. After him are Raimu, Zelda Rubinstein, Rolan Bykov, Richard Kiley, Jonah Hill, and Barry Pepper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Joel McCrea ranks 200. Before him are C. P. Snow, Étienne Mattler, Siaka Stevens, Harold Arlen, Mary Renault, and Mario Varglien. After him are Irmgard Keun, Abeid Karume, Lilí Álvarez, André Cluytens, Giuseppe Cavanna, and Ernst Baier. Among people deceased in 1990, Joel McCrea ranks 158. Before him are Đorđe Vujadinović, A. J. P. Taylor, Edwin O. Reischauer, Edmond Delfour, Marie-Dominique Chenu, and Alberto Lleras Camargo. After him are Luigi Beccali, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Boris Paichadze, Germán Suárez Flamerich, Luis Trenker, and Alexander Men.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel McCrea ranks 4,883 out of 20,380. Before him are Jane Powell (1929), Henry Adams (1838), Gianni Russo (1943), Seka (1954), Michael S. Hart (1947), and Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930). After him are Helen Merrill (1930), Zelda Rubinstein (1933), Richard Kiley (1922), Jonah Hill (1983), Eugene Garfield (1925), and Michelle Williams (1980).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Joel McCrea ranks 1,454. Before him are Frank Gorshin (1933), Maggie Grace (1983), Jenette Goldstein (1960), Kristen Bell (1980), Jane Powell (1929), and Gianni Russo (1943). After him are Zelda Rubinstein (1933), Richard Kiley (1922), Jonah Hill (1983), Michelle Williams (1980), Carole Landis (1919), and Butterfly McQueen (1911).

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Television and Movie Roles

Sullivan's Travels
John Sullivan
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
Nov 30o 19417.405 / 10
Foreign Correspondent
John Jones
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Aug 16o 19407 / 10
The Most Dangerous Game
Robert Rainsford
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
Sep 16o 19326.931 / 10