Jody McCrea Filmography

Born:: Hollywood, CA
Occupation:: Actor, Producer
Biography:: The son of actors Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, Jody McCrea didn't seem to have much direction in life until his father insisted that they be co-starred in the 1959 TV western Wichita Town. The younger McCrea attempted to follow in his father's rugged, "strong silent-type" footsteps in his...Read More

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Cry Blood, Apache

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joel McCrea

Synopsis: Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback sequences featuring son Jody) explains his brutal massacre of a tribe of Indians. The only survivor (Marie Gahua) agrees to lead him to a secret gold mine. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1970
The Glory Stompers

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jody McCrea, Chris Noel, Jock Mahoney, Jim Reader

Synopsis: Chino (Dennis Hopper) is the tough leader of a motorcycle gang who starts off a war when he abducts and mistreats the leader of the enemy biker gang, Darryl (Jody McCrea), and his girlfriend Chris (Chris Noel). When Darryl comes back for revenge, things get violent. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Read More

1967
The Girls from Thunder Strip

1966
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

Actors: Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, Harvey Lembeck, Buster Keaton, Beverly Adams

Synopsis: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is considered to be the strangest of the "Beach Party" movies. Frankie (Frankie Avalon) is off in the navy, serving in the South Pacific, and nervous about all of the guys that will be hitting on Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) back at the beach. He makes a deal with an Read More

7/14/65
Beach Blanket Bingo

Actors: Earl Wilson, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Deborah Walley, Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley, Marta Kristen, Linda Evans, Timothy Carey, Don Rickles, Paul Lynde

Synopsis: Part of American-International's "Beach Party" series, Beach Blanket Bingo was directed by William Asher. Frankie (Frankie Avalon) briefly deserts Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) in favor of pop star Sugar Kane (Linda Evans). Also around and about is a mermaid, appropriately named Lorelei (Marta Kristen Read More

4/15/65
Young Fury

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Virginia Mayo, Lon Chaney, Jr., Richard Arlen, John Agar

Synopsis: In this western, a gunslinger runs from the Dawson gang and decides to return home to the wife he abandoned many years before. There he finds that his infant son has grown into a thuggish hellion who has been lead to believe that his mother is dead. He also hates the father who left him. The Read More

1965
Pajama Party

Actors: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Jody McCrea, Jesse White, Buster Keaton, Harvey Lembeck

Synopsis: Out of the beaches and into the boudoirs go Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and the rest of the gang in Pajama Party. Actually, the whole megillah is as innocent as a newborn babe, but there's plenty of smirking and snickering during a wild 'n' wacky girl's slumber party. Frankie Avalon has only Read More

11/11/64
Law of the Lawless

Actors: Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo, William Bendix, Bruce Cabot, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: This is the first of numerous westerns produced by A.C. Lyles which became famous not for their stories but for who played in them--all the stars being veterans not often seen on the screen anymore. As far as plot line, essentially we have a badguy who has become a good guy (read that ex Read More

1964
Muscle Beach Party

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, John Ashley, Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett

Synopsis: The Beach Party Gang meets a coterie of muscle-men who try to take over their spot on the beach in Muscle Beach Party. Surfing sensations Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) have their security threatened when Flex Martian (Rock Stevens) and a collection of well-oiled Read More

1964
Bikini Beach

Actors: Boris Karloff, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, Harvey Lembeck

Synopsis: The Beach Party gang is back in this third episode. This time out, the gang is visited by the handsome British pop star Potato Bug (Frankie Avalon in a dual role) who has come to CA for a little r&r. When Potato Bug sees the perky Dee Dee (Annette Funicello), he falls head over heels. This doesn't Read More

1964
Young Guns of Texas

Actors: James Mitchum, Alana Ladd, Jody McCrea, Gary Conway

Synopsis: In this western, a young cadet is expelled from West Point and goes looking for the brother who was accused of stealing from the Union Army. En route, he befriends a young man and then meets a young woman at a church dance. During the festivities, a fight erupts and the three new friends end up Read More

1963
Operation Bikini

Actors: Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Scott Brady, Jim Backus, Gary Crosby

Synopsis: This conventional wartime drama is comprised of an inexplicable mix of moods and genres as a U.S. submarine in World War II heads out to the island of Bikini in the South Pacific to destroy the remains of a sunken sister ship. The ruined ship has some delicate radar equipment on board that cannot Read More

1963
Beach Party

Actors: Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Harvey Lembeck

Synopsis: Professor Bob Cummings is an anthropologist who uses a telescope to study the mating habits of teenagers, namely Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. However, Cummings' secretary Dorothy Malone wishes that his boss would get his mind off bikinis and surfers. Meanwhile trouble brews when Eric Von Read More

1963
The Broken Land

Synopsis: In this western, a notorious gunfighter's son is captured by a ruthless, bullying sheriff. He manages to escape and get revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1962
All Hands on Deck

Actors: Pat Boone, Buddy Hackett, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Eden, Warren Berlinger, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: This is a somewhat serviceable, light comedy by prolific director Norman Taurog (a favored helmer of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis films). Squeaky-clean Pat Boone is a singing lieutenant who has to briefly ship out to the Aleutians and regrettably leave Sally (Barbara Eden), his new love behind. Read More

1961
Force of Impulse

Synopsis: In this socially conscious love story, a dull high school jock falls in love with a seductive young girl whose father disapproves of her seeing a man with a lower social station. He then forces her to date a boy from the upper class. To defy her father, she ends up staying out all night with the Read More

1960
The Restless Years

Actors: John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Teresa Wright, James Whitmore, Luana Patten

Synopsis: Small-minded small town 1950's mores threaten a youthful romance in this sudsy melodrama based on the play Teach Me How to Cry by Patricia Joudry and reminiscent of the previous year's Peyton Place (1957). Sandra Dee stars as Melinda Grant, an illegitimate girl facing the stigma of being a Read More

1958
Lafayette Escadrille

Actors: Tab Hunter, Etchika Choureau, William Wellman, Jr., Jody McCrea, Dennis Devine

Synopsis: Though director William Wellman was attached to the Lafayette Flying Corps during WW1, many people believed that he was actually with the celebrated Lafayette Escadrille, and this 1958 actioner does little to dispel that belief. The film concentrates on a group of courageous young American Read More

1958
The Monster That Challenged the World

Actors: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Harlan Warde, Casey Adams

Synopsis: The Monster That Challenged the World is the misleadingly title for one of the more well-regarded second-echelon horror films of the 1950s. An underwater earthquake in the Sargasso sea yields up the eggs of a long-extinct sea monster. Once hatched, the monster's offspring (which resemble huge Read More

1957
Gunsight Ridge

Actors: Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon, Darlene Fields, Addison Richards

Synopsis: In this western, the trouble begins when a ruthless outlaw impersonates a mine owner. When the sheriff begins to suspect him, the badguy kills him. A government agent, working undercover replaces the sheriff, exposes the crook and wins the love of a purty gal in the process. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

1957
The First Texan

Actors: Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow, Wallace Ford, Abraham Sofaer

Synopsis: Cashing in on the popularity of TV's Davy Crockett and the jukebox favorite "Yellow Rose of Texas", Allied Artists came up with the CinemaScope biopic The First Texan. The title character is Sam Houston, played with rugged assuredness by Joel McCrea. The film begins when Houston leaves Tennessee Read More

1956
The Naked Gun

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the popular David Zuckor comedy from the late '80s that starred Leslie Nielson, 1956's Naked Gun chronicles the adventures of a bored insurance salesman who spices up his drab life by heading to the Mexican jungle to search for an ancient Aztec treasure and return it to its Read More

1956