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Also known as Joel Albert McCrea

American actor (1905–1990)

Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Classic Radio's Greatest Westerns, Vol. 3 Lib/E

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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

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
32
Total plays
469

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,874x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,423x

  3. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,940x

  4. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

    · 2015 · cited 23,710x

  5. Optical Coherence Tomography

    · 1991 · cited 11,102x

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Key facts

Born
Joel Albert McCrea , ( 1905-11-05 ) November 5, 1905, South Pasadena, California , U.S.
Died
October 20, 1990 (1990-10-20) (aged 84), Los Angeles , California, U.S.
Resting place
Remains scattered into the Pacific Ocean
Alma mater
Pomona College
Years active
1927–1976
Spouse
Frances Dee ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1933 ) ​
Children
3, including Jody McCrea

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Encyclopedic overview

Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career as a leading man spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he became best known.

McCrea appeared in over 100 films, starring in over 80, between 1927 and 1976. He starred in three Best Picture Oscar nominees: William Wyler's Dead End (1937), Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), and George Stevens' romantic comedy The More the Merrier (1943).

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