Joel McCrea Net Worth
Joel McCrea Net Worth is
$200,000
Joel McCrea Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
One of the great stars of American Westerns, and a very popular leading man in non-Westerns as well. He was born and raised in the surroundings of Hollywood and as a boy became interested in the movies that were being made all around. He studied acting at Pomona College and got some stage experience at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where other ... | Full Name | Joel McCrea |
| Date Of Birth | November 5, 1905 |
| Died | 1990-10-20 |
| Place Of Birth | South Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Height | 6' 2½" (1.89 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Soundtrack, Producer |
| Education | Pomona College, Hollywood High School |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Frances Dee |
| Children | David McCrea, Peter McCrea |
| Parents | Lou Whipple McCrea, Thomas McCrea |
| Movies | Sullivan's Travels, Ride the High Country, Foreign Correspondent, The Most Dangerous Game, Colorado Territory, Union Pacific, The Palm Beach Story, The More the Merrier, Fort Massacre, Stranger on Horseback, Stars in My Crown, Ramrod, The Gunfight at Dodge City, The Virginian, Cattle Empire, Buffalo... |
| TV Shows | Wichita Town |
| Star Sign | Scorpio |
| Title | Salary |
|---|---|
| The More the Merrier (1943) | $10,000 per week with 10 week guarantee |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero. |
| 2 | Cowboys are not beyond swearing, but we used it if a horse stepped on a foot. |
| 3 | After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit. |
| 4 | When it came out the studio didn't sell it. But the critics grabbed onto it. Neither Randy or I had ever gotten such criticism. We were surprised, though we knew it wasn't a regular shoot-'em-up. I really enjoyed Ride the High Country (1962). Both Randy and I were washed-up actors playing washed-up lawmen. |
| 5 | I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations ... Anyway, I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it. (1978) |
| 6 | People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note. |
| 7 | I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Joel is the grandfather of actor/producer Wyatt McCrea. |
| 2 | McCrea admitted late in life that he made much more money in real estate investments than he ever did in movies. |
| 3 | McCrea turned down the lead in "The Impatient Years," which would have reunited him with his "The More the Merrier" co-stars, Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn. He refused to play a serviceman of any type, telling a reporter, "If I'm too old to be called, I was too old for that kind of show.". |
| 4 | Bette Davis liked McCrea very much and pressed him to co-star with her in an adaptation of Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome." McCrea thought it too downbeat to be successful. A disappointed Davis called him "a cowboy psychiatrist" and referred to him as that from then on. |
| 5 | McCrea met the real Wyatt Earp in Hollywood in 1928 and ended up playing the iconic lawman in 1955's "Wichita." He later played Bat Masterson in "The Gunfight at Dodge City" in 1959. |
| 6 | Among movies that McCrea turned down: "Spitfire" with Katharine Hepburn, "The Impatient Years," "The Postman Always Rings Twice," "Intruder in the Dust," "The Will Rogers Story.". |
| 7 | He died on his 57th wedding anniversary. |
| 8 | Joel McCrea soon realized after losing the lead for "The Real Glory" to Gary Cooper that as long Samuel Goldwyn had both Cooper and him under contract, he would always come out second in the studio's choice roles. When he refused to resign with Goldwyn, the producer warned him that he'd "never work in this town again!" The Goldwyn always referred to the actor as "Joel McCreal." McCrea signed with Cecil B. DeMille for "Union Pacific" at Paramount,. |
| 9 | A very young Joel McCrea was advised by Will Rogers to put the money he made from acting into real estate, a venture that made the novice actor a millionaire. |
| 10 | Katherine DeMille and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., were classmates of McCrea,. |
| 11 | McCrea's first encounter with movie-making came on a Ruth Roland serial which unfortunately was saddled with a leading man who could not ride well McCrea, an outstanding horseman since he was nine, doubled for the actor at $2.50 a day and was given a job wrangling for the rest of the shoot. |
| 12 | Was a Boy Scout. |
| 13 | Was briefly engaged to comedic supporting actress Joyce Compton in the late 1920s but she broke off the engagement. |
| 14 | Was a staunch conservative Republican. |
| 15 | He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 1719 Vine Street and for Radio at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. |
| 16 | The grandson of a western stagecoach driver who had fought against the Apaches, McCrea raised his own horses, was a passionate outdoors man and large-scale rancher, invested wisely in livestock and real estate, was a staunch Republican and frugal millionaire. |
| 17 | Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 574-575. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. |
| 18 | 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. |
| 19 | In 1920, he lived with his parents at 7755 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles. |
| 20 | In 1930, he lived with his parents at 243 S. Rockingham Avenue, Los Angeles. |
| 21 | 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. |
| 22 | 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). |
| 23 | Besides Jody McCrea, he and Frances Dee had two more sons: David and Peter. |
| 24 | Attended high school with future director Jacques Tourneur who would later direct him in Stars in My Crown (1950) (one of McCrea's personal favorites) and a pair of 1955 releases, Wichita (1955) and Stranger on Horseback (1955). |
| 25 | He was infamously modest about his own acting abilities, often bordering on a soft-spoken contempt. |
| 26 | A big sight gag in Sullivan's Travels (1941) 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. |
| 27 | Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1969. |
| 28 | Father, with actress Frances Dee, of actor Jody McCrea. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mustang Country | 1976 | Dan | |
| Sioux Nation | 1970 | ||
| Cry Blood, Apache | 1970 | Pitcalin as an Older Man | |
| The Young Rounders | 1966 | ||
| Ride the High Country | 1962 | Steve Judd | |
| The Crowning Experience | 1960 | Prologue narrator | |
| Wichita Town | 1959-1960 | TV Series | Marshal Mike Dunbar Mike Dunbar |
| The Gunfight at Dodge City | 1959 | Bat Masterson | |
| Fort Massacre | 1958 | Sgt. Vinson | |
| Cattle Empire | 1958 | John Cord | |
| The Tall Stranger | 1957 | Ned Bannon | |
| Gunsight Ridge | 1957 | Mike Ryan | |
| Trooper Hook | 1957 | Sgt. Clovis Hook | |
| The Oklahoman | 1957 | Dr. John M. Brighton | |
| The First Texan | 1956 | Sam Houston | |
| Wichita | 1955 | Wyatt Earp | |
| Stranger on Horseback | 1955 | Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne | |
| Black Horse Canyon | 1954 | Del Rockwell | |
| Border River | 1954 | Clete Mattson | |
| Shoot First | 1953 | Taine | |
| The Lone Hand | 1953 | Zachary Hallock | |
| The San Francisco Story | 1952 | Rick Nelson | |
| Cattle Drive | 1951 | Dan Mathews | |
| Hollywood Story | 1951 | Joel McCrea | |
| Frenchie | 1950 | Sheriff Tom Banning | |
| Saddle Tramp | 1950 | Chuck Conner | |
| Stars in My Crown | 1950 | Josiah Doziah Gray | |
| The Outriders | 1950 | Will Owen | |
| Colorado Territory | 1949 | Wes McQueen | |
| South of St. Louis | 1949 | Kip Davis | |
| Four Faces West | 1948 | Ross McEwen | |
| Ramrod | 1947 | Dave Nash | |
| The Virginian | 1946 | The Virginian | |
| The Unseen | 1945 | David Fielding | |
| The Great Moment | 1944 | William Thomas Green Morton | |
| Buffalo Bill | 1944 | William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody | |
| The More the Merrier | 1943 | Joe Carter | |
| The Palm Beach Story | 1942 | Tom Jeffers | |
| The Great Man's Lady | 1942 | Ethan Hoyt | |
| Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | John L. Sullivan | |
| Reaching for the Sun | 1941 | Russ Eliot | |
| Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | John Jones | |
| Primrose Path | 1940 | Ed Wallace | |
| He Married His Wife | 1940 | T.H. Randall | |
| Espionage Agent | 1939 | Barry Corvall | |
| They Shall Have Music | 1939 | Peter | |
| Union Pacific | 1939 | Jeff Butler | |
| Youth Takes a Fling | 1938 | Joe Meadows | |
| Three Blind Mice | 1938 | Van Dam Smith | |
| Wells Fargo | 1937 | Ramsay MacKay | |
| Dead End | 1937 | Dave | |
| Woman Chases Man | 1937 | Kenneth Nolan | |
| Internes Can't Take Money | 1937 | James Kildare | |
| Banjo on My Knee | 1936 | Ernie Holley | |
| Come and Get It | 1936 | Richard Glasgow | |
| Adventure in Manhattan | 1936 | George Melville | |
| Two in a Crowd | 1936 | Larry Stevens | |
| These Three | 1936 | Dr. Joseph Cardin | |
| Splendor | 1935 | Brighton Lorrimore | |
| Barbary Coast | 1935 | Jim Carmichael | |
| Woman Wanted | 1935 | Tony | |
| Our Little Girl | 1935 | Dr. Donald Middleton | |
| Private Worlds | 1935 | Dr. Alex MacGregor | |
| The Richest Girl in the World | 1934 | Anthony 'Tony' Travers | |
| Half a Sinner | 1934 | John Adams | |
| Gambling Lady | 1934 | Garry Madison | |
| Chance at Heaven | 1933 | Blackstone 'Blacky' Gorman | |
| One Man's Journey | 1933 | Jimmy Watt | |
| Bed of Roses | 1933 | Dan | |
| The Silver Cord | 1933 | David Phelps | |
| Scarlet River | 1933 | Joel McCrea (uncredited) | |
| Rockabye | 1932 | Jacobs Van Riker Pell | |
| The Sport Parade | 1932 | Sandy Brown | |
| The Most Dangerous Game | 1932 | Robert 'Bob' Rainsford | |
| Bird of Paradise | 1932 | Johnny Baker | |
| The Lost Squadron | 1932 | Red | |
| Business and Pleasure | 1932 | Lawrence Ogle | |
| Girls About Town | 1931 | Jim Baker | |
| The Common Law | 1931 | John Neville | |
| Born to Love | 1931 | Barry Craig | |
| Kept Husbands | 1931 | Richard 'Dick' Brunton | |
| Once a Sinner | 1931 | Tommy Mason | |
| Lightnin' | 1930 | John Marvin | |
| The Silver Horde | 1930 | Boyd Emerson | |
| Framed | 1930 | Waiter at the Casino Club (uncredited) | |
| Dynamite | 1929 | Marco - Her Boy Friend | |
| So This Is College | 1929 | Bruce Nolan (uncredited) | |
| The Single Standard | 1929 | Blythe - One of the Philandering Men (uncredited) | |
| The Divine Lady | 1929 | Extra (uncredited) | |
| The Jazz Age | 1929 | Todd Sayles | |
| Freedom of the Press | 1928 | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) | |
| Dead Man's Curve | 1928 | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) | |
| The Five O'Clock Girl | 1928 | Oswald | |
| The Enemy | 1927 | Extra (uncredited) | |
| The Fair Co-Ed | 1927 | Student (uncredited) |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woman Chases Man | 1937 | performer: "Trees" 1922 - uncredited | |
| Banjo on My Knee | 1936 | performer: "Where the Lazy River Goes By" 1936 | |
| Chance at Heaven | 1933 | performer: "London Bridge is Falling Down" - uncredited | |
| The Sport Parade | 1932 | "The Stars and Stripes Forever" 1896, uncredited | |
| The Lost Squadron | 1932 | "Auld Lang Syne" 1788, uncredited | |
| Kept Husbands | 1931 | "Three Little Words" 1930, uncredited |
Stunts
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torrent | 1926 | stunts - uncredited | |
| A Self-Made Failure | 1924 | stunts - uncredited | |
| Penrod and Sam | 1923 | stunts - uncredited |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cry Blood, Apache | 1970 | co-producer |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan | 1985 | TV Special | Himself |
| George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | 1984 | Documentary | Himself |
| Night of 100 Stars | 1982 | TV Special | Himself |
| Dinah! | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Great American Cowboy | 1973 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| This Is Your Life | 1972 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| Here's Hollywood | 1962 | TV Series | Himself |
| I've Got a Secret | 1959 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Lux Video Theatre | 1955-1956 | TV Series | Himself - Intermission guest / Himself (guest) |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1955 | TV Series | Himself |
| Screen Actors | 1950 | Documentary short | Himself (uncredited) |
| Stars on Horseback | 1943 | Short | Himself (uncredited) |
| Screen Snapshots: Seeing Hollywood | 1940 | Documentary short | Himself - Rodeo Spectator |
| Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 2 | 1936 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 9 | 1935 | Documentary short | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | John Neville Jr. |
| I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper | 2005 | Documentary | Himself, from Most Dangerous Game (uncredited) |
| Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| American Masters | 1990-2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Wes McQueen, 'Colorado Territory' (uncredited) |
| Hollywood Mavericks | 1990 | Documentary | John L. Sullivan (uncredited) |
| Presidential Blooper Reel | 1981 | Video short | Himself |
| America at the Movies | 1976 | Documentary | Steve Judd |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 1969 | TV Movie documentary | Actor 'Bird of Paradise' (uncredited) |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | 1963 | Documentary | Himself |
| Land of Liberty | 1939 |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Career Achievement Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | ||
| 1987 | Golden Boot | Golden Boot Awards | ||
| 1982 | Silver Medallion Award | Telluride Film Festival, US | ||
| 1976 | Trustees Award | Western Heritage Awards | Mustang Country (1976) | |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 6901 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Radio | On 8 February 1960. At 6241 Hollywood Blvd. |
Known for movies
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
as John Jones
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
as John L. Sullivan
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
as Robert 'Bob' Rainsford
Ride the High Country (1962)
as Steve Judd