At an early age, he began organizing his neighborhood friends into street corner doo-wop groups and was performing with The McCrea Gospel Singers at 16.

In the early 1950s, McCrea starred as Jayce Pearson on the radio series Western procedural police drama, Tales of the Texas Rangers.

McCrea – who was an outdoorsman who had once listed his occupation as " rancher " and his hobby as " acting " – had begun buying property as early as 1933, when he purchased his first in what was then an unincorporated area of eastern Ventura County, California, but later became Thousand Oaks, California.

Comfort Eagle itself was released on July 24, 2001, to good reviews ; Michael D. Clark of The Houston Chronicle described it as " Cake at its best ", while a reviewer for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution stated that the album's songs were " among the best of the band's career ", praising McCrea for widening his vocal repertoire.

It was directed by Sam Peckinpah and co-starred Joel McCrea, an actor who had a screen image similar to Scott's and who also from the mid-1940s on devoted his career almost exclusively to Westerns.

Joel Albert McCrea ( November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990 ) was an American actor whose career spanned 50 years and appearances in over 90 films.

After the success of The Virginian in 1946, McCrea made Westerns exclusively for the rest of his career, with the exception of the British-made Rough Shoot ( 1953 ).

Performing in Westerns was a return to what he had done earlier in his career, and McCrea enjoyed the genre.

In 1968, McCrea received a career achievement award from the L. A. Film Critics Association, and the following year he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

By the time the 1940s ended, McCrea was a multi-millionaire, as much from his real-estate dealings as from his movie stardom.

He has collaborated with artists such as Steve Dillon and Glenn Fabry on Preacher, John McCrea on Hitman, and Carlos Ezquerra on both Preacher and Hitman.

He returned in time to join the others in 1937 in Hollywood, California, to make the movie version of the play, starring big names such as Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, and Claire Trevor.

In a 2012 interview he revealed the details of three asassination attempts by the IRA. One such attempt was aborted due to one of the potential gunmen having changed his mind because of previous political help McCrea had carried out for his parents. The IRA member informed the police who then sent a patrol to observe McCrea's home.

She appeared opposite such heavyweight screen idols as Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Joel McCrea, Fredric March, George Raft ( a frequent screen partner ), and Cary Grant.

Her first film under RKO was The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 ), co-starring Joel McCrea and shot at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, with the leads from both films, Wray and Robert Armstrong, appearing in both movies.

Joel McCrea, her co-star in Sullivan's Travels, reputedly turned down the co-starring role in I Married a Witch, saying, " Life's too short for two films with Veronica Lake.

She next appeared in two films opposite Joel McCrea, Youth Takes a Fling ( 1938 ) and They Shall Have Music ( 1939 ), for the first time playing the lead female role.

The Campanile Bell Tower of Westminster Cathedral was featured prominently in the Alfred Hitchcock film Foreign Correspondent, at which the attempted murder of a journalist played by Joel McCrea took place.

At some point, the studio wanted Brian Aherne for the male lead, and Joel McCrea, Madeleine Carroll and Paulette Goddard were under consideration as of July 1940, but in August 1940 Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll were announced as co-stars.

* He Married His Wife ( 1940 ) with Joel McCrea

Drina's childhood friend, Dave Connell ( Joel McCrea ), is an unemployed architect who currently works odd jobs.

John L. Sullivan ( Joel McCrea ), a popular young Hollywood director fresh from a string of very profitable, but shallow comedies ( e. g. Ants in Your Plants of 1939 ), tells his studio boss, Mr. Lebrand ( Robert Warwick ), that he is dissatisfied and wants his next project to be a serious exploration of the plight of the downtrodden, to be based on the socially-conscious novel O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Then Dingle runs into Sergeant Joe Carter ( Joel McCrea ), who has no place to stay while he waits to be shipped overseas.

* Ride the High Country ( a. k. a. Guns in the Afternoon ), directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott

During the 20th century many theories were proposed including the planetesimal theory of Thomas Chamberlin and Forest Moulton ( 1901 ), tidal model of Jeans ( 1917 ), accretion model of Otto Schmidt ( 1944 ), protoplanet theory of William McCrea ( 1960 ) and finally capture theory of Michael Woolfson.

Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal ( or " Charky ," as Jayce would sometimes refer to him ), to track them down.

* The Virginian ( 1946 film ), directed by Stuart Gilmore and starring Joel McCrea, based on the novel

Barnes broke up with Wood over her involvement with heiress Henriette McCrea Metcalf ( 1888 – 1981 ), who would be scathingly portrayed in Nightwood as Jenny Petherbridge.

* Internes Can't Take Money ( 1937 ), starring Joel McCrea as Kildare

* William McCrea ( politician ) ( born 1948 ), politician from Northern Ireland

Scott McCrea, author of The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question ( 2005 ), reviewing Tassinari's book declared that it is full of " inconsistencies and ridiculous logic ".

McCrea graduated from Hollywood High School and then Pomona College ( class of 1928 ), where he had acted on stage and took courses in drama and public speaking, and appeared regularly at the Pasadena Playhouse, Even as a high school student, he was working as a stunt double and held horses for cowboy stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix.

In the 1930s, McCrea starred in Bird of Paradise ( 1932 ), directed by King Vidor, causing controversy for his nude scenes with Dolores del Río.

In RKO's The Sport Parade ( 1932 ), McCrea and William Gargan are friends on the Dartmouth football team, who are shown snapping towels at each other in the locker room, while other players are taking a shower.

McCrea also starred in two William A. Wellman Western's, The Great Man's Lady ( 1942 ), again with Stanwyck, and Buffalo Bill ( 1944 ), with character actor Edgar Buchanan and a young Maureen O ' Hara.

A few years later, McCrea united with fellow veteran of Westerns Randolph Scott in Ride the High Country ( 1962 ), directed by Sam Peckinpah, which was to be his last feature film for four years, when he made The Young Rounders ( 1966 ).

* The First Texan ( 1956 ), featuring son Jody McCrea

* Cry Blood, Apache ( 1970 ), starring son Jody McCrea

The feat is depicted in various movies, including the 1939 film Union Pacific, starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, which depicts the fictional Central Pacific investor Asa Barrows obstructing attempts by the Union Pacific from reaching Ogden, Utah.

An accompanying video was directed by McCrea, and recorded using the DV system ; it featured vox populi recordings of members of the public listening to the song and giving their opinion.

* In Sullivan's Travels, a 1941 comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, John L. Sullivan, a wanderlust movie director, played by Joel McCrea, visits a Hooverville and accidentally becomes a genuine tramp.

* As the 1949 western Colorado Territory starring Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo, also directed by Raoul Walsh.

The Palm Beach Story is a 1942 romantic screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor and Rudy Vallée.