6 Best Joseph Crehan Movies

By Vlad Zakh · August 17, 2026

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Joseph Crehan, with his commanding build and authoritative bearing, spent decades playing police chiefs, judges and officials across hundreds of Hollywood films. Larceny, Inc. keeps derailing an ex-convict’s bank vault tunnel from a luggage shop, Black Magic investigates murders linked to a nightclub mind-reader, Hit the Ice mistakes two photographers for bank robbers, and The Brute Man seeks brutal revenge as a disfigured former athlete. Stanley and Livingstone and Black Fury round out the list.

The Brute Man (1946) 01

The Brute Man (1946)

TMDB ★ 5.0

Joseph Crehan is in this Rondo Hatton horror about a disfigured former college athlete who seeks brutal revenge against the friends he blames for his condition.

Directed by Jean Yarbrough · 0h 58m

Black Magic (1944) 02

Black Magic (1944)

TMDB ★ 5.6

Joseph Crehan is in this Charlie Chan mystery about a magician investigating a series of murders connected to a mysterious mind-reading nightclub act.

Directed by Phil Rosen · 1h 07m · Rated NR

Larceny, Inc. (1942) 03

Larceny, Inc. (1942)

TMDB ★ 6.6

Joseph Crehan is in this comedy about an ex-convict whose plan to tunnel into a bank vault from a luggage shop keeps getting derailed by unexpected success.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon · 1h 36m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max

Hit the Ice (1943) 04

Hit the Ice (1943)

TMDB ★ 6.1

Joseph Crehan features in this Abbott and Costello comedy about two bumbling photographers mistaken for bank robbers at a winter sports resort.

Directed by Charles Lamont · 1h 22m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

Stanley and Livingstone (1939) 05

Stanley and Livingstone (1939)

TMDB ★ 6.6

Joseph Crehan is in this adventure about an ambitious journalist who ventures into darkest Africa to find a missing explorer and reignite his career.

Directed by Otto Brower & Henry King · 1h 41m · Rated NR

Black Fury (1935) 06

Black Fury (1935)

TMDB ★ 6.9

Joseph Crehan features in this drama about a coal miner who unwittingly becomes a strikebreaking pawn after his fiancee leaves him for another man.

Directed by Michael Curtiz · 1h 34m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

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Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.