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McCrea was an avid body builder, and the only actor appearing in the American International Pictures beach movies who could surf. The film was a big hit, and after appearing in Law of the Lawless (1964) and The Greatest Show on Earth , McCrea reprised his performance as Deadhead in Muscle Beach Party (1964) and Bikini Beach (1964).
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.
While Operation Bikini was nominally a World War II war movie, it shared a number of cast members—Avalon, Jody McCrea and Eva Six—with American International's Beach Party (soon to become a franchise), [1] and thrown into the mix were character actor Jim Backus, former screen heartthrob Tab Hunter and Gary Crosby (son of Bing). Avalon sings ...
Dee met actor Joel McCrea on the set of the 1933 film The Silver Cord. [4] The couple married on October 20, 1933, after a whirlwind courtship, and remained married until McCrea's death in 1990. During their lifetime together, the McCreas lived, raised their children, and rode their horses on their ranch in what was then an unincorporated area ...
The actor, comedian, and writer also went on to host her own show called "Sasheer Zamata Party Time" in 2017. She currently co-hosts the "Best Friends" podcast with "Nailed It!" co-host Nicole Byer.
After a standoff between two biker gangs in California, members of the Black Souls, led by the vicious and unstable Chino (Dennis Hopper) ambush Darryl (Jody McCrea), leader of the Glory Stompers, and beat him severely.
Jody McCrea, whose Wichita Town, an NBC western series in which he starred with his father, Joel McCrea, ended in 1960, was cast as an Indian, "Danny Brave Eagle", in the 1961 episode entitled "The Wrestler". The second episode was entitled "You Can't Go Home Again", borrowing from Thomas Wolfe's novel, You Can't Go Home Again. The series ...
Jody McCrea (1934–2009), American actor; son of actors Joel McCrea and Frances Dee; Jody Morris (born 1978), English footballer; Jody Payne (1936–2013), American country musician and singer; Jody Porter (born 1969), American guitarist; Jody Powell (1943–2009), White House Press Secretary for President Carter