George Murphy
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George Murphy was an American dancer and stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a United States Senator. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable U.S. actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In movies, Murphy was known as a song-and-dance man and appeared in many big-budget musicals such as Broadway Melody of 1938, Broadway Melody of 1940 and For Me and My Gal. He made his movie debut shortly after talking pictures had replaced silent movies in 1930, and his career continued until he retired as an actor in 1952, at the age of 50. During World War II, he organized entertainment for American troops. In 1951, he was awarded an honorary Academy Award. He was never nominated for an Oscar in any competitive category. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946. He was also a vice president of Desilu Productions and of the Technicolor Corporation. He was director of entertainment for presidential inaugurations in 1953, 1957 and 1961.
Known for
Credits
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
as Cavalryman (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Battleground (1949)
as 'Pop' Stazak
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
as King Shaw
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
This Is the Army (1943)
as Jerry Jones
Show Business (1944)
as George Doane
Step Lively (1944)
as Gordon Miller
It's a Big Country (1951)
as Mr. Patrick Callaghan
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
as Sonny Ledford
Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)
as Tom
That's Dancing! (1985)
as From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
Border Incident (1949)
as Jack Bearnes
Ringside Maisie (1941)
as Francis X. 'Skeets' / 'Skeeter' Maguire
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)
as Self
For Me and My Gal (1942)
as Jimmy K. Metcalf
Show-Business at War (1943)
as Self
Woman Trap (1936)
as Keat Shevlin
The Women Men Marry (1937)
as Bill Raeburn
The Hoaxters (1952)
as Narrator (voice)
The Navy Comes Through (1942)
as Lt. Thomas L. 'Tom' Sands
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
as Alan Blake
I'll Love You Always (1935)
as Carl Brent
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)
as Self
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
as Claudius "Coffee Cup" Cup
Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
as Eddie Kerns
Hold That Co-ed (1938)
as Rusty Stevens
You're a Sweetheart (1937)
as Hal Adams
Talk About a Stranger (1952)
as Robert Fontaine Sr.
Letter of Introduction (1938)
as Barry Paige
Top of the Town (1937)
as Ted Lane
No Questions Asked (1951)
as Police Insp. Matt Duggan
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
as Joe Jonathan
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga (1939)
as Himself (uncredited)
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine (2003)
Actor
Bataan (1943)
as Lt. Steve Bentley
Walk East on Beacon (1952)
as Inspector James 'Jim' Belden
Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
as Steve Abbutt
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
as Roger Wendling
Hollywood Hobbies (1939)
as Self (uncredited)
Broadway Rhythm (1944)
as Johnny Demming
Big City (1948)
as Patrick O'Donnell
The Arnelo Affair (1947)
as Theodore 'Ted' Parkson
Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
as Jerry Kelly
London by Night (1937)
as Michael Denis
Rise and Shine (1941)
as Jimmy McGonagle
Kid Millions (1934)
as Jerry Lane
Having Wonderful Crime (1945)
as Jake Justus
Cynthia (1947)
as Larry Bishop
The Powers Girl (1943)
as Jerry Hendricks
Up Goes Maisie (1946)
as Joseph Morton
After the Dance (1935)
as Jerry Davis
Risky Business (1939)
as Dan Clifford
Jealousy (1934)
as Larry O'Roarke
The Public Menace (1935)
as Edward Joseph "Red" Foster
1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955)
Actor
Violets in Spring (1936)
as Charlie Hall