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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.
IMDb profile of Joel McCrea, a Hollywood actor who starred in Westerns and other genres. Learn about his life, career, family, and trivia.
Learn about the life and career of Joel McCrea, one of the great stars of American Westerns and a popular leading man in non-Westerns. Find out his birth name, nickname, height, family, trivia, quotes, and more.
Oct 21, 1990 · Joel McCrea, a tall, trim, ruggedly handsome actor who radiated a casual, amiable image in 80 movies, many of them westerns, died yesterday of pulmonary complications at the Motion...
Oct 21, 1990 · Joel McCrea, a real-life cowboy who became one of the best of Hollywood’s make-believe saddle heroes, died Saturday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills. He...
Joel McCrea (born November 5, 1905, South Pasadena, California, U.S.—died October 20, 1990, Woodland Hills, California) was an American motion-picture actor of the 1930s and ’40s. McCrea was the son of a utility company executive.
"Joel McCrea is the American Everyman as reporter Johnny Jones aka Huntley Haverstock. Hitchcock wanted us naive Americans to see the devious work being done in Europe. McCrea succeeds. He is aided well by George Sanders, Laraine Day, Albert Basserman, Herbert Marshall and Edmund Gwenn."
