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