Joel McCrea
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| Known for: |
Foreign Correspondent, Sullivan's Travels, Ride the High Country |
| Birth name: |
Joel Albert McCrea |
| Birthday: |
5 November 1905,
South Pasadena, California, USA |
| Height: |
6' 3" (1.91 m) |
Trivia

Father, with actress
Frances Dee, of actor
Jody McCrea.

Had blue eyes.

Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1969.

A big sight gag in
Sullivan's Travels was the juxtaposition of the big McCrea with his leading lady,
Veronica Lake, who apparently was 16 inches shorter. For some shots of the film, however, Lake had to stand on a box so their heads could be seen in the same shot.

He was infamously modest about his own acting abilities, often bordering on a soft-spoken contempt.

Attended high school with future director
Jacques Tourneur who would later direct him in
Stars in My Crown (one of McCrea's personal favorites) and a pair of 1955 releases,
Wichita and
Stranger on Horseback.

Besides
Jody McCrea, he and
Frances Dee had two more sons: David and Peter.
Katharine Hepburn was a friend of McCrea's and McCrea's wife
Frances Dee. Hepburn also felt that McCrea was one of the best actors she had ever worked with and was always disappointed that his career wasn't more successful (she thought he should have been ranking alongside
Spencer Tracy or
Humphrey Bogart).

Very well-respected as a horseman, he was regarded as one of the two best riders in Western films along with
Ben Johnson, who had been a real cowboy.

In 1930, he lived with his parents at 243 S. Rockingham Avenue, Los Angeles.

In 1920, he lived with his parents at 7755 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

His father, Thomas P. McCrea , was a secretary for the Los Angeles gas and electric company. His mother, Lou Whipple McCrea, was a professional Christian Science practitioner.
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