Acting

Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea ist vor allem bekannt für The Ed Sullivan Show, The Merv Griffin Show und Wichita Town. Joel McCrea wurde am 5. November 1905 geboren. Joel McCrea starb am 20. Oktober 1990 im Alter von 84 Jahren.

Geboren: 5. November 1905
Geburtsort: South Pasadena, California, USA
Gestorben: 20. Oktober 1990 (84 Jahre)

Biografie

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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