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Joel McCrea
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.
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As actor
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Night of 100 Stars
Mustang Country
The Great American Cowboy
Cry Blood Apache
Sioux Nation
The Young Rounders
Ride the High Country
The Crowning Experience
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Fort Massacre
Cattle Empire
The Oklahoman
Trooper Hook
The Tall Stranger
Gunsight Ridge
The First Texan
Stranger on Horseback
Wichita
Border River
Black Horse Canyon
Rough Shoot
The Lone Hand
The San Francisco Story
Hollywood Story
Cattle Drive
Stars in My Crown