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Joel McCrea

05 Nov, 1905 in South Pasadena, California, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Joel Albert McCreaДжоэл Маккри

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Dead End
70% (1937)
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Ramrod
64% (1947)
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Kept Husbands
55% (1931)
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Born to Love
50% (1931)
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Rockabye
62% (1932)
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Splendor
63% (1935)
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Wichita
62% (1955)
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Dynamite
61% (1929)
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Frenchie
57% (1950)
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Lightnin'
37% (1930)
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The Enemy
55% (1927)