Joel Albert McCrea (South Pasadena, Califòrnia, 5 de novembre de 1905 – Los ANgeles, Califòrnia, 20 d'octubre de 1990) va ser un actor cinematogràfic nord-americà. Va treballar al cinema com a extra des del 1927, abans de ser escollit per fer un paper important a "The Jazz Age" (1929). Després d'aquesta pel·lícula va aconseguir un contracte amb la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, i després un altre amb RKO Pictures. Es va assentar com un atractiu protagonista masculí, prou versàtil per treballar tant en drames com en comèdies.

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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