Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

November 5, 1905 · 120 years old

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, starri…

Known For

34 titles
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Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels

1941 · 1h 30m · Movie

Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

7.9
2
Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

1940 · 2h 0m · Movie

On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

7.4
3
Ride the High Country

Ride the High Country

1962 · 1h 34m · Movie

An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.

7.4
4
The Most Dangerous Game

The Most Dangerous Game

1932 · 1h 3m · Movie

A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.

7.1
5
The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story

1942 · 1h 28m · Movie

A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.

7.5
6
Dead End

Dead End

1937 · 1h 33m · Movie

The lives of a young man, a young woman, a notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

7.2
7
The More the Merrier

The More the Merrier

1943 · 1h 44m · Movie

During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.

7.6
8
These Three

These Three

1936 · 1h 33m · Movie

Two schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.

7.4
9
Union Pacific

Union Pacific

1939 · 2h 15m · Movie

In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.

7.0
10
Colorado Territory

Colorado Territory

1949 · 1h 34m · Movie

Outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.

7.2
11
Wichita

Wichita

1955 · 1h 21m · Movie

In 1874, after noticing the total lawlessness in Wichita, Wyatt Earp reluctantly accepts the Marshal's job and runs into the worst local troublemakers.

6.9
12
Primrose Path

Primrose Path

1940 · 1h 33m · Movie

A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but after he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.

6.8
13
Ramrod

Ramrod

1947 · 1h 34m · Movie

Story about violent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land.

6.7
14
Bird of Paradise

Bird of Paradise

1932 · 1h 20m · Movie

A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.

6.0
15
The Virginian

The Virginian

1946 · 1h 27m · Movie

In Medicine Bow, a newly arrived eastern schoolteacher is courted by two cowpokes but their courtship is interrupted by violent incidents involving local cattle rustlers.

6.4
16
Fort Massacre

Fort Massacre

1958 · 1h 20m · Movie

A cavalry troop finds itself under constant attack by Indians.

6.2
17
The Gunfight at Dodge City

The Gunfight at Dodge City

1959 · 1h 21m · Movie

After his brother the sheriff is murdered, Bat Masterson is elected to the job and is determined to find the killer and make Dodge City safe.

6.2
18
Hollywood Story

Hollywood Story

1951 · 1h 17m · Movie

An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.

6.7
19
Four Faces West

Four Faces West

1948 · 1h 29m · Movie

In New Mexico, a cowpoke forces a banker at gunpoint to give him a loan without collateral in exchange for an IOU, but the marshal and his posse chase after him.

7.0
20
Trooper Hook

Trooper Hook

1957 · 1h 21m · Movie

When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.

6.6
21
The Richest Girl in the World

The Richest Girl in the World

1934 · 1h 16m · Movie

An heiress switches places with her secretary in order to find a man who will love her for who she is and not for her money.

6.3
22
The Tall Stranger

The Tall Stranger

1957 · 1h 21m · Movie

Back from the Civil War, an ex-Yankee officer helps a wagon train of former Confederates to settle in a prosperous valley marred by cattle rustling and land grabbing feuds.

6.4
23
Stranger on Horseback

Stranger on Horseback

1955 · 1h 6m · Movie

A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.

6.6
24
The Great Man's Lady

The Great Man's Lady

1941 · 1h 30m · Movie

A 100-year-old pioneer woman tells her story in flashbacks.

6.6
25
Internes Can't Take Money

Internes Can't Take Money

1937 · 1h 18m · Movie

In his first film, young Dr. Kildare helps a female ex-con find her child.

6.8
26
Cattle Empire

Cattle Empire

1958 · 1h 23m · Movie

Released from prison, a trail boss is solicited by rival cattle barons to drive their respective cattle herds to Fort Clemson.

6.2
27
Chance at Heaven

Chance at Heaven

1933 · 1h 11m · Movie

An ambitious mechanic is tempted to desert his wonderful girlfriend when a silly but rich debutante falls for him.

6.0
28
Border River

Border River

1954 · 1h 20m · Movie

A Confederate officer and his men journey to Mexico to buy guns to continue the war effort. A Union officer determines to stop them.

6.0
29
Kept Husbands

Kept Husbands

1931 · 1h 16m · Movie

Daughter of a wealthy family decides to marry a poor working man.

5.8
30
South of St. Louis

South of St. Louis

1949 · 1h 28m · Movie

The friendship of three Texas ranchers whose ranch is destroyed by Cottrell, of the Union army, and his band of outlaw raiders. The working title was "Distant Drums", and south of St. Louis was a term used to describe Civil War de...

6.0
31
The Silver Horde

The Silver Horde

1930 · 1h 15m · Movie

A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.

5.8
32
Our Little Girl

Our Little Girl

1935 · 1h 5m · Movie

A troubled child tries to patch up her parents' broken marriage by running away.

6.3
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The Unseen

The Unseen

1945 · 1h 20m · Movie

A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door.

5.9
34
Rockabye

Rockabye

1932 · 1h 8m · Movie

Actress Judy Carroll, from the gas-house district has been trained, educated and developed so well by her manager, that not even the publicity-seeking world of the theater has guessed her antecedents. But she has not loved well or...

5.7