As of July 2026, Joel McCrea is best known for Sullivan's Travels. Find every show and movie Joel McCrea has starred in — and where to watch them — below.
Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

Actor Born 1905 South Pasadena, California, USA 8 Movies

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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Joel McCrea has built a filmography of 8 credits over a career spanning from 1931 to 1962.

Joel McCrea's most notable role to date came in Sullivan's Travels (1941), where he played John Sullivan. He also appeared in Foreign Correspondent (1940) as John Jones. Most recently appeared in Ride the High Country (1962) as Steve Judd.

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🎬 Joel McCrea's Movies

Sullivan's Travels
John Sullivan
1941
The More the Merrier
Joe Carter
1943
Kept Husbands
Richard 'Dick' Brunton
1931
Ride the High Country
Steve Judd
1962
The Oklahoman
John
1957
Foreign Correspondent
John Jones
1940
Frenchie
Sheriff Tom Banning
1950
Chance at Heaven
Blacky Gorman
1933

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