Joseph Crehan

Highest Rated: 100% Phantom Lady (1944)

Lowest Rated: 17% The Sea of Grass (1947)

Birthday: Invalid date

Birthplace: Not Available

American actor Joseph Crehan bore an uncanny resemblance to Ulysses S. Grant and appeared as Grant in a number of historical features, notably They Died With Their Boots On (1941) and The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944). Appearing in hundreds of other films as well, the short, snappish actor's field-commander personality assured him authoritative roles as police chiefs, small-town mayors and newspaper editors. Because he never looked young, Joseph Crehan played essentially the same types of roles throughout his screen career, even up until 1961's Judgment at Nuremberg. Perhaps Joseph Crehan's oddest appearance is in a film he never made; in West Side Story (1961), it is Crehan's face that appears on those ubiquitous political campaign posters in the opening Jets vs. Sharks sequences.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
91%	Judgment at Nuremberg	Spectator	—	1961
86%	Deadline - U.S.A.	City editor	—	1952
No Score Yet	Roadblock	Thompson	—	1951
No Score Yet	The Fuller Brush Girl	Captain of Police Boat	—	1950
No Score Yet	Malaya	Fat Man	—	1949
No Score Yet	Dancing in the Dark	Board Member	—	1949
No Score Yet	Tulsa	Judge McKay	—	1949
No Score Yet	Ringside	Oscar	—	1949
No Score Yet	State Department---File 649	Government Official	—	1948
50%	A Song Is Born	District Attorney	—	1948
No Score Yet	Night Time in Nevada	Casey	—	1948
60%	Good Sam	Casey	—	1948
No Score Yet	April Showers	Mr. Barnes	—	1948
No Score Yet	Homecoming	Col. Morgan	—	1948
No Score Yet	Silver River	President Grant	—	1948
No Score Yet	Because of Eve	Dr. West	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Hunted	Police Captain	—	1948
No Score Yet	Blondie's Secret	Sergeant	—	1948
No Score Yet	Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (Dick Tracy Meets Karloff)(Dick Tracy's Amazing Adventure)	Chief Brandon	—	1947
17%	The Sea of Grass	Sen. Graw	—	1947
97%	Monsieur Verdoux	Broker	—	1947
67%	Dead Reckoning	Gen. Steele	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Foxes of Harrow	Captain	—	1947
No Score Yet	Dick Tracy vs. Cueball	Chief Brandon	—	1946
No Score Yet	Magnificent Doll	Williams	—	1946
No Score Yet	Bad Bascomb	Gov. Ames	—	1946
No Score Yet	Dangerous Money	Capt. Black	—	1946
97%	The Big Sleep	Medical Examiner	—	1946
No Score Yet	The Phantom Thief	Jumbo Madigan Pawnbroker	—	1946
No Score Yet	Deadline at Dawn	Lt. Kane	—	1946
No Score Yet	O.S.S.	Gen. Donovan	—	1946
No Score Yet	Night Train to Memphis	Stevenson	—	1946
No Score Yet	The Falcon's Adventure	Inspector Cavanaugh	—	1946
67%	Ziegfeld Follies	Judge No. 1	—	1946
No Score Yet	Behind the Mask	Cardona	—	1946
No Score Yet	Adventure	Ed	—	1945
No Score Yet	Dick Tracy, Detective	Chief Brandon	—	1945
No Score Yet	Man Alive	Doc Whitney	—	1945
No Score Yet	Lady on a Train	Mr. Smith	—	1945
No Score Yet	Brewster's Millions	Notary	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Royal Mounted Rides Again	Sergeant Nelson	—	1945
No Score Yet	One Mysterious Night	Jumbo Madigan	—	1944
No Score Yet	Meeting at Midnight (Black Magic)	Matthew	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Adventures of Mark Twain	Promoter/Ulysses.S. Grant	—	1944
No Score Yet	Shine On, Harvest Moon	Harry Miller	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Navy Way	Chaplin Benson	—	1944
100%	Phantom Lady	Detective	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Great Alaskan Mystery	Bill Hudson	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Woman of the Town	Newspaper Editor	—	1944
No Score Yet	Old Acquaintance	Editor	—	1943
No Score Yet	Flesh And Fantasy	Acrobat/Detective	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Iron Major	Judge	—	1943
43%	Johnny Come Lately (Johnny Vagabond)	Judge Flynn	—	1943
No Score Yet	Hit the Ice	Train Conductor #1	—	1943
No Score Yet	Mission to Moscow	Reporter	—	1943
No Score Yet	City Without Men	Father Burns	—	1943
100%	Mr. Lucky	Plainclothesman	—	1943
No Score Yet	Hands Across the Border	Jeff Adams	—	1943
No Score Yet	You Can't Escape Forever	Warden	—	1942
No Score Yet	The Gay Sisters	City Editor	—	1942
No Score Yet	Larceny, Inc.	Warden	—	1942
No Score Yet	Gang Busters	Chief O'Brien	—	1942
No Score Yet	To the Shores of Tripoli	Uncle Bob	—	1942
No Score Yet	Nine Lives Are Not Enough	Yates	—	1941
No Score Yet	Nevada City	Mark Benton	—	1941
100%	Love Crazy	Judge	—	1941
No Score Yet	Here Comes Happiness	Tom Burke	—	1941
No Score Yet	A Man Betrayed (Citadel of Crime) (Wheel of Fortune)	Newspaper Editor	—	1941
No Score Yet	Life Begins for Andy Hardy	Peter Dugan	—	1941
No Score Yet	Manpower	Sweeney	—	1941
100%	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	Doctor	—	1941
82%	They Died With Their Boots On	President Grant	—	1941
No Score Yet	Andy Hardy's Private Secretary	Peter Dugan	—	1941
No Score Yet	Texas	Dusty King	—	1941
80%	City for Conquest	Doctor	—	1940
No Score Yet	Brother Orchid	Brother MacEwen	—	1940
No Score Yet	Broadway Melody of 1940	Ballroom Manager	—	1940
60%	The Fighting 69th	Doctor	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Green Hornet	Judge Stanton	—	1940
No Score Yet	Music in My Heart	Mark C. Gilman	—	1940
83%	Santa Fe Trail	Officer	—	1940
No Score Yet	The House Across the Bay	Federal Man	—	1940
No Score Yet	Texas Rangers Ride Again	Johnson	—	1940
No Score Yet	Gaucho Serenade	Martin	—	1940
No Score Yet	Invisible Stripes	Mr. Chasen, the Garage Manager	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Return of Doctor X	Editor	—	1939
No Score Yet	Geronimo	President U.S. Grant	—	1939
No Score Yet	We Are Not Alone	American	—	1939
83%	Babes in Arms	Mr. Essex	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Star Maker	Old Gentleman	—	1939
No Score Yet	Stanley and Livingstone	Morehead	—	1939
No Score Yet	Union Pacific	Gen. U.S. Grant	—	1939
100%	Dodge City	Hammond	—	1939
No Score Yet	Star Reporter	Gordon	—	1939
No Score Yet	Wings of the Navy	Doctor	—	1939
100%	The Roaring Twenties	Fletcher, Foreman	—	1939
No Score Yet	Four's a Crowd	Pierce, the Butler	—	1938
80%	Alexander's Ragtime Band	Stage Manager	—	1938
No Score Yet	Woman Against Woman	Sen. Kingsley	—	1938
38%	Bluebeard's Eighth Wife	American tourist	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Goldwyn Follies	Theater Manager	—	1938
No Score Yet	Happy Landing	Agent	—	1938
No Score Yet	Billy the Kid Returns	Conway	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Wrong Road	District Attorney	—	1937
No Score Yet	Married Before Breakfast (Married by Noon)	Dalton	—	1937
No Score Yet	Kid Galahad	Brady	—	1937
No Score Yet	This Is My Affair	Priest	—	1937
No Score Yet	Once a Doctor	Capt. Andrews	—	1937
No Score Yet	God's Country and the Woman	Jordan	—	1937
No Score Yet	Gold Diggers of 1937	Actor	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Go Getter	Karl Stone	—	1937
No Score Yet	A Man Betrayed	Newspaper Editor	—	1937
No Score Yet	Cherokee Strip	Army Officer	—	1937
No Score Yet	Earthworm Tractors	Mr. Henderson	—	1936
No Score Yet	Bullets or Ballots	Grand Jury Spokesman	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Law in Her Hands	Thomas Mallon	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Singing Kid	Fulton	—	1936
No Score Yet	Road Gang	Actor	—	1936
No Score Yet	Boulder Dam	Ross	—	1936
20%	Anthony Adverse	Capt. Elisha Jorham	—	1936
No Score Yet	Cain and Mabel	Reed's Manager	—	1936
No Score Yet	China Clipper	Actor	—	1936
No Score Yet	Frisco Kid	McClanahan	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Case of the Lucky Legs	Johnson	—	1935
No Score Yet	Special Agent	Chief of Police	—	1935
No Score Yet	Page Miss Glory	Detective Chief	—	1935
No Score Yet	Bright Lights	Airport Attendant	—	1935
80%	Front Page Woman	Spike Kiley	—	1935
No Score Yet	Stranded	Johnny Quinn	—	1935
No Score Yet	Alibi Ike	Conductor	—	1935
No Score Yet	Oil for the Lamps of China	Clements	—	1935
No Score Yet	Black Fury	John Farrell	—	1935
No Score Yet	Go Into Your Dance	Jackson	—	1935
No Score Yet	Traveling Saleslady	Murdock	—	1935
100%	Gold Diggers of 1935	Chairman at Insurance Convention	—	1935
No Score Yet	Devil Dogs of the Air	Communications Officer	—	1935
No Score Yet	Shipmates Forever	Spike	—	1935
No Score Yet	A Lost Lady	Doctor	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Man with Two Faces	Editor	—	1934
80%	Here Comes the Navy	Recruiting Officer	—	1934
No Score Yet	Jimmy the Gent	Judge	—	1934
98%	It Happened One Night	Detective	—	1934

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	The Andy Griffith Show 1960-1968	Councilman	1961
No Score Yet	Leave It to Beaver 1957-1963	Train Conductor	1958
No Score Yet	I Love Lucy 1951-1957	Detective	1955

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