Joel McCrea
4 credits on HibingeTV
American actor, a durable leading man of the 1930s–1950s, known for Sullivan’s Travels, Foreign Correspondent, Ride the High Country, and Kept Husbands (1931).
Acted In
Adventure, Romance
A young American sailor falls for a Polynesian princess on a South Seas island, ignoring warnings that she is destined to be sacrificed to a volcano god. Dolores del Río and Joel McCrea star in King Vidor's pre-Code romance, filmed on location in Hawaii. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.
Adventure · Romance · Drama
Bird of Paradise
1932 - as Johnny Baker
Drama, Comedy
A spoiled heiress marries a working-class steel man on a whim and sets out to remake him into a society ornament, driving him toward a breaking point. Dorothy Mackaill and Joel McCrea star in this pre-Code class-and-gender drama. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.
Drama · Comedy
Kept Husbands
1931 - as Richard Brunton
Adventure, Horror
The original screen adaptation of Richard Connell's 1924 short story, directed by Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack for RKO. Famed big game hunter Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea) is shipwrecked on a remote island ruled by the urbane Russian Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks), who has grown bored with stalking animals and now hunts the shipwrecked sailors who wash ashore. Zaroff offers Rainsford a deal: survive three days as prey in the jungle, and he goes free. Fay Wray, fresh off King Kong (shot on the same RKO jungle sets), plays a fellow captive. The film's influence on the survival-horror genre is immeasurable, and its central premise has been remade and riffed on endlessly. The film is in the public domain.
Adventure · Horror · Thriller
The Most Dangerous Game
1932 - as Bob Rainsford
Drama, Adventure
An RKO pre-Code adventure drama adapted from Rex Beach's 1909 novel, directed by George Archainbaud. Joel McCrea plays Boyd Emerson, a young man who heads to Alaska to make his fortune in the salmon fisheries and finds himself squeezed between ruthless cannery interests and two very different women — society girl Mildred Wayland (Jean Arthur) and Cherry Malotte (Evelyn Brent), the worldly saloon keeper who truly loves him. Louis Wolheim is memorable as George Balt, the rough-edged fisherman who becomes Boyd's loyal ally. Shot partly on location in Alaska, it was an early talkie showcase for McCrea on his way to stardom. The film entered the public domain in the United States in 1958 after its copyright was not renewed.
Drama · Adventure · Romance
The Silver Horde
1930 - as Boyd Emerson