Fred MacMurray
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Fredrick Martin 'Fred' MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor and musician. He was educated at Carroll College, Wisconsin, and played with a Chicago orchestra for more than a year. Then he joined an orchestra in Hollywood where he played, did some recording and played extra roles. He then joined a comedy stage band, California Collegians, and went to New York. There he joined "Three's A Crowd" revue on Broadway and on the road. After this show closed, he returned to California and worked in vaudeville. He played the vaudeville circuits and night clubs until cast for major role in "Roberta". Signed by Paramount in 1935. He was raised in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin from the age of 5, eventually graduating from Beaver Dam High School (currently the site of Beaver Dam Middle School), where he was a 3-sport star in football, baseball, and basketball. He retained a special place in his heart for his small-town Wisconsin upbringing, referring at any opportunity in magazine articles or interviews to the lifelong friends and cherished memories of Beaver Dam, even including mementos of his childhood in several of his films. In 'Pardon my Past' (1945), he and fellow GI William Demarest are moving to Beaver Dam, WI to start a mink farm.
Known for
Credits
The Apartment (1960)
as Jeff D. Sheldrake
Double Indemnity (1944)
as Walter Neff
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
The Swarm (1978)
as Maj. Clarance Tuttle
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
as Ned Brainard
Son of Flubber (1963)
as Ned Brainard
Pushover (1954)
as Paul Sheridan
The Movie Orgy (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
as Wilson Daniels
Quantez (1957)
as Gentry
Alice Adams (1935)
as Arthur Russell
The Far Horizons (1955)
as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
as Lemuel Siddons
Borderline (1950)
as Johnny McEvoy, aka Johnny Macklin
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
The Gilded Lily (1935)
as Peter Dawes
Dive Bomber (1941)
as Joe Blake
No Time for Love (1943)
as Jim Ryan
Woman's World (1954)
as Sid Burns
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
as Jack Hale
Day of the Badman (1958)
as Judge Jim Scott
Remember the Night (1940)
as Jack Sargent
The Egg and I (1947)
as Bob MacDonald
Joys (1976)
as Self
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
Hands Across the Table (1935)
as Theodore Drew III
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
as Clifford Groves
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
as Corey McBain
Singapore (1947)
as Matt Gordon
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
as King Mantell
On Our Merry Way (1948)
as Al
Father Was a Fullback (1949)
as George Cooper
Bon Voyage! (1962)
as Harry Willard
Maid of Salem (1937)
as Roger Coverman
A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
as Self
The Oregon Trail (1959)
as Neal Harris
The Forest Rangers (1942)
as Don Stuart
Family Honeymoon (1948)
as Grant Jordan
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
This Is Bob Hope... (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
as Tom Verney
And the Angels Sing (1944)
as Happy Morgan
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
as Anthony Biddle
Above Suspicion (1943)
as Richard Myles
Flight for Freedom (1943)
as Randy Britton
The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
as William 'Bill' Dunnigan
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle (1975)
as Harry Ballinger
Show-Business at War (1943)
as Self
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
as Thomas "Tom" Ransome
Gun for a Coward (1956)
as Will Keough
Sing, You Sinners (1938)
as David Beebe
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Exclusive (1937)
as Ralph Houston
Disneyland '59 (1959)
as Self
Never a Dull Moment (1950)
as Chris Hayward
Cocoanut Grove (1938)
as Johnny Prentice
New York Town (1941)
as Victor Ballard
Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
as Marshal Ben Cutler
Men with Wings (1938)
as Pat Falconer
The Texas Rangers (1936)
as Jim Hawkins
At Gunpoint (1955)
as Jack Wright
The Moonlighter (1953)
as Wes Anderson
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
as Captain Boll
An Innocent Affair (1948)
as Vincent Doane
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
as Frank
Kisses for My President (1964)
as Thad McCloud
Murder, He Says (1945)
as Pete Marshall
Smoky (1946)
as Clint Barkley
A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
as Peter Ulysses Lockwood
Inside 'the Swarm' (1978)
as Self
Pardon My Past (1945)
as Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
Champagne Waltz (1937)
as Buzzy Bellew
Charley and the Angel (1973)
as Charley Appleby
Too Many Husbands (1940)
as Bill Cardew
Invitation to Happiness (1939)
as Albert 'King' Cole
The Bride Comes Home (1935)
as Cyrus Anderson
Men Without Names (1935)
as Agent Dick Grant, alias Richard Hood
Tiger Rose (1929)
as Rancher
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney (1978)
as Self
Captain Eddie (1945)
as Eddie Rickenbacker
Virginia (1941)
as Stonewall Elliott
Little Old New York (1940)
as Charles Brownne
Practically Yours (1944)
as Daniel Bellamy
Cafe Society (1939)
as Crick O'Bannon
The Chadwick Family (1974)
as Ned Chadwick
One Night In Lisbon (1941)
as Dwight Houston
Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
as Skid Johnson
True Confession (1937)
as Kenneth Bartlett
Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
as Bill Burnett
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
13 Hours by Air (1936)
as Jack Gordon
Car 99 (1935)
as Trooper Ross Martin
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 (1941)
as Self (uncredited)
Standing Room Only (1944)
as Lee Stevens
Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
as Mike Frye
Inside 'The Apartment' (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Grand Old Girl (1935)
as Sandy
Suddenly It's Spring (1947)
as Peter Morely
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)
as Self
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood (1986)
as Self (uncredited)
Rangers of Fortune (1940)
as Gil Farra
Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
as Bill Morgan
Girls Gone Wild (1929)
as Extra (uncredited)
The Shaggy Dog Kids (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Gala Day at Disneyland (1960)
as Self
A Thanksgiving Reunion with the Partridge Family and My Three Sons (1977)
Actor
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith (1943)
as Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing (1952)
as Self - Presenter