Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1905-01-01
- Died
- 1990-01-01
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Classic Radio's Greatest Westerns, Vol. 3 Lib/E
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · 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),…
Known for
- Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood — John Neville Jr. (archive footage)2008
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self (archive footage)2004
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line — Self (archive footage)1997
- George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey — Self1985
- Night of 100 Stars — Self1982
- Mustang Country — Dan1976
- The Great American Cowboy — Narrator1973
- Cry Blood Apache — Pitcalin as an Older Man1970
- Sioux Nation1970
- The Young Rounders1966
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 32
- Total plays
- 469
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
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- Optical Coherence Tomography
· 1991 · cited 10,985x
via Crossref · CC0
Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1905
- Died
- 1 January 1990
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- California
- Place of death
- Woodland Hills
- Spouse
- Frances Dee
- Child
- Jody McCrea
- Occupation
- television actor
- Educated at
- Pomona College
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Connections
Categories
1905 births1990 deaths20th-century American businesspeople20th-century American male actorsAmerican male film actorsAmerican male radio actorsCalifornia RepublicansCommons link from WikidataDeaths from pneumonia in CaliforniaHollywood High School alumniMale actors from Los Angeles County, CaliforniaMale Western (genre) film actors