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
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
The Swarm (1978)
as Clarence
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
as Ned Brainard
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
as Anthony Biddle
Pushover (1954)
as Paul Sheridan
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
as Wilson Daniels
The Movie Orgy (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
The Far Horizons (1955)
as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
Family Honeymoon (1948)
as Grant Jordan
Remember the Night (1940)
as Jack Sargent
Dive Bomber (1941)
as Joe Blake
Quantez (1957)
as Gentry
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
as Clifford Groves
Charley and the Angel (1973)
as Charley Appleby
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Son of Flubber (1963)
as Ned Brainard
Bon Voyage! (1962)
as Harry Willard
The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
as William 'Bill' Dunnigan
Borderline (1950)
as Johnny Macklin
Disneyland '59 (1959)
as Self
Above Suspicion (1943)
as Richard Myles
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
as Frank
Joys (1976)
as Self
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
as Jack Hale
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
Alice Adams (1935)
as Arthur Russell
Gun for a Coward (1956)
as Will Keough
Show-Business at War (1943)
as Self
Singapore (1947)
as Matt Gordon
Anthony Quinn: An Original (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
as Marshal Ben Cutler
Hands Across the Table (1935)
as Theodore Drew III
The Egg and I (1947)
as Bob MacDonald
And the Angels Sing (1944)
as Happy Morgan
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
as Thomas "Tom" Ransome
Invitation to Happiness (1939)
as Albert 'King' Cole
The Texas Rangers (1936)
as Jim Hawkins
A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
as Self
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
as Lemuel Siddons
Woman's World (1954)
as Sid Burns
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
as King Mantell
Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
as Skid Johnson
At Gunpoint (1955)
as Jack Wright
The Gilded Lily (1935)
as Peter Dawes
Kisses for My President (1964)
as Thad McCloud
The Moonlighter (1953)
as Wes Anderson
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney (1978)
as Self
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
Pardon My Past (1945)
as Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
Day of the Badman (1958)
as Judge Jim Scott
Champagne Waltz (1937)
as Buzzy Bellew
On Our Merry Way (1948)
as Al
Maid of Salem (1937)
as Roger Coverman
This Is Bob Hope... (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
The Oregon Trail (1959)
as Neal Harris
Murder, He Says (1945)
as Pete Marshall
Too Many Husbands (1940)
as Bill Cardew
The Forest Rangers (1942)
as Don Stuart
No Time for Love (1943)
as Jim Ryan
Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
as Tom Verney
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
as Captain Boll
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)
as (archive footage)
Father Was a Fullback (1949)
as George Cooper
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
as Corey McBain
True Confession (1937)
as Kenneth Bartlett
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood (1986)
as Self (uncredited)
Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
as Bill Burnett
Men with Wings (1938)
as Pat Falconer
Never a Dull Moment (1950)
as Chris Hayward
Captain Eddie (1945)
as Eddie Rickenbacker
Smoky (1946)
as Clint Barkley
Tiger Rose (1929)
as Rancher
Inside 'The Apartment' (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Little Old New York (1940)
as Charles Brownne
A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
as Peter Ulysses Lockwood
The Chadwick Family (1974)
as Ned Chadwick
Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
as Bill Morgan
Men Without Names (1935)
as Agent Dick Grant, alias Richard Hood
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)
as Self
Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
as Mike Frye
An Innocent Affair (1948)
as Vincent Doane
Practically Yours (1944)
as Daniel Bellamy
New York Town (1941)
as Victor Ballard
Flight for Freedom (1943)
as Randy Britton
Inside 'the Swarm' (1978)
as Self
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith (1943)
as Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
Sing, You Sinners (1938)
as David Beebe
The Bride Comes Home (1935)
as Cyrus Anderson
Grand Old Girl (1935)
as Sandy
13 Hours by Air (1936)
as Jack Gordon
One Night In Lisbon (1941)
as Dwight Houston
The Shaggy Dog Kids (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Standing Room Only (1944)
as Lee Stevens
Girls Gone Wild (1929)
as Extra (uncredited)
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle (1975)
as Harry Ballinger
Rangers of Fortune (1940)
as Gil Farra
A Thanksgiving Reunion with the Partridge Family and My Three Sons (1977)
Actor
Cocoanut Grove (1938)
as Johnny Prentice
Car 99 (1935)
as Trooper Ross Martin
Exclusive (1937)
as Ralph Houston
Cafe Society (1939)
as Crick O'Bannon
Gala Day at Disneyland (1960)
as Self
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 (1941)
as Self (uncredited)
Suddenly It's Spring (1947)
as Peter Morely
Virginia (1941)
as Stonewall Elliott
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing (1952)
as Self - Presenter