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 Hitchcocks espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent 1940 Preston Sturges comedy classics Sullivans 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 Cavas bawdy comedy Bed of Roses 1933 George Stevens romantic comedy The More the Merrier 1943 William Wylers 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 Peckinpahs Ride the High Country 1962 opposite Randolph Scott Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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